9/8 Cubs (Hammel) @ Cardinals (Wacha) 7:15 PM CST, CSN

[Guest]

Until guys stop hitting, I think you have to go with Baez at 3rd and Bryant in the OF. Play Coghlan at 2nd/OF every now and then when Schwarber comes back.

 

i hate to keep harping on the castro thing but it's not like he's been so freakishly hot (obviously an awesome dong tonight) that you have to bench a solid coghlan (vs rhp) in favor of him when schwarbs comes back

 

In the last 5 weeks he's at .333/.358/.500.

 

how many PA is that? he's been playing limited time.

 

before tonight he was around league average in august, very good in sept, and like a 60 wRC+ in the second half

 

82 going back to the beginning of August and not counting tonight.

 

Just relax and enjoy it. Good Castro is so much more fun than Coghlan.

 

i mean i still don't bench cogs for him

[CubInOK]

Jackson, please stay on our team and I will never call you Jaxon again.

[Schwarber Fan]

Cry Cardinals, cry.

[Andy]

Castro is on a one-man "[expletive] you David" mission and I love it.

[Sammy Sofa]

GUESS WHO'S BACK.

 

BACK AGAIN.

[NOLA]

Good Castro is fun.

[Guest]

Jackson was an awesome pickup.

 

we finally got a good jackson

[weis21]

What if Javy is Manny Machado without the desire to intentionally hit catchers in the head with his bat

[Sammy Sofa]

i mean i still don't bench cogs for him

 

Not completely, but while he's hot he should definitely get more starts.

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 23-3 (.885) when they score 7 runs or more.... 56-54 (.509) when they don't

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[Guest]

Until guys stop hitting, I think you have to go with Baez at 3rd and Bryant in the OF. Play Coghlan at 2nd/OF every now and then when Schwarber comes back.

 

i hate to keep harping on the castro thing but it's not like he's been so freakishly hot (obviously an awesome dong tonight) that you have to bench a solid coghlan (vs rhp) in favor of him when schwarbs comes back

 

In the last 5 weeks he's at .333/.358/.500.

 

how many PA is that? he's been playing limited time.

 

before tonight he was around league average in august, very good in sept, and like a 60 wRC+ in the second half

 

It's 80 PA, it's not nothing.

 

The overriding point here is that you're letting this bit where you're done with Castro override the logic that it is very much in the team's interest to play him when he gets hot. It doesn't mean Castro must play every day, but he's very much a first class citizen in the competition for at bats when he's swinging the bat well. The fact that he's stayed productive for a month when not playing every day is a point in his favor in this regard.

 

post about how i don't believe hot is a thing and that even though he has hit better (and noticeably so - it's not just babip - i realize he's getting balls in the air and driving them a lot more now) i don't believe that necessarily means he will continue to do so going forward, especially not as mercurial as he's been.

 

i'm going to just keep doing this

 

prove me wrong starlin, prove me wrong

[Guest]

Castro is on a one-man "[expletive] you David" mission and I love it.

 

I do too.

[Smack]

McCarver is just rambling. Love it

[Cubswin11]

Jackson was an awesome pickup.

Indeed and Denorfia should be punted to the sun

[weis21]

i credit david for tonight for taking starlin off his sig. thx david

[Guest]

the REAL underlying point is that we have a lot of talented and good [expletive] players and that's pretty awesome

 

oh and the best possible manager to have that "problem" with

[bcl412]

I want this series to become legendary in Cub folk lore after they win the division than World Series.

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 53-12 (.815) when they get a quality start.... 26-45 (.366) when they don't

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[Guest]

plz rizzo, let's make it back to back 9-0 drubbings

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[Schwarber Fan]

Yeah, Jackson and good Castro/Javy is really making this team look like a legit powerhouse. Amazing to think this is all happening without Schwarber.

[Guest]

remember last year when soler hit that monstrous HR for his second of the game at busch, and kasper was like "this entire crowd is just saying 'WHAT was that??'"

 

this is like the full series version of that and this team is that night's soler

[kujay]

Hahaha this is so great.

[Careless]

How do you have the shift on and not manage to stop that one?

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 15-3 (.833) when they score 8 runs or more.... 64-54 (.542) when they don't

 

 

Go CUBS !!