General Cubs Chit-Chat

[Cubswin11]

Jesus, what a click bait, hot take troll.

[Omar]

somebody needs to fill Jay Mariotti's shoes

[NOLA]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/882778881786359809[/tweet]

[Sammy Sofa]

somebody needs to fill Jay Mariotti's shoes

 

With cement.

[CyHawk_Cub]

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[Schwarber Fan]

Sorry if posted elsewhere, but the Cubs are the first defending WS Champs ever to not send a returning player to the ASG.

[Sammy Sofa]

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These predictions are gonna make more pants get pooped than a Bryant family reunion:

 

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2017-mlb-predictions/?ex_cid=rrpromo

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Sorry if posted elsewhere, but the Cubs are the first defending WS Champs ever to not send a returning player to the ASG.

 

This is actually hilarious to me. Not one player from that team in the All-Star Game. What a nightmare.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Where have all the line drives gone? This feels like the one glaring issue when comparing the batted ball rates between this offense and last year's. This year we are dead last at 18% and last year we were 8th with 21%

 

To me this is what most explains the 20 point BABIP drop. Hard% is about the same, so is our pull rates and directional hitting, even the flyball% is the same which really surprised me. But the guys have stopped hitting line drives and the results have been disastrous.

[rocket]

i'm excited for bukie's top 1 moment from the 2017 season, which is just a clip of the cubs raising the 2016 world series banner

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Finally!!

 

[tweet]https://twitter.com/carriemuskat/status/883789167842525185[/tweet]

[bcl412]

Being the "first defending champion" to do whatever kind of sucks but it also means we're defending champions and that's still cool.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Finally!!

 

[tweet]https://twitter.com/carriemuskat/status/883789167842525185[/tweet]

 

Please be healthy.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/carriemuskat/status/883821480051699713[/tweet]

[Derwood]

Finally!!

 

[tweet]https://twitter.com/carriemuskat/status/883789167842525185[/tweet]

 

Please be healthy Maddux.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Contreras checks in at #19 on Fangraphs' Trade Value series, the first Cub in the Top 50 or honorable mention so far. Rizzo and Bryant were 6 and 3 respectively last year and weren't mentioned in those that fell out entirely(and why would they), so they're in the Top 10 again.

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2017-trade-value-11-to-20/

[Banedon]

the first Cub in the Top 50 or honorable mention so far.

 

Russell was #40.

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2017-trade-value-31-to-40/

[squally1313]

the first Cub in the Top 50 or honorable mention so far.

 

Russell was #40.

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2017-trade-value-31-to-40/

 

And Schwarber was an honorable mention, though Cameron took a shot at him by putting his position of OF in quotes ("OF")

[Transmogrified Tiger]

That's what I get for not double checking. I remember Schwarber now(Cameron's gonna be petty about him even if he wins an MVP), but I had missed Russell entirely.

[Bobson Dugnutt]

That's what I get for not double checking. I remember Schwarber now(Cameron's gonna be petty about him even if he wins an MVP), but I had missed Russell entirely.

 

you also forgot jose quintana at 42. what an oversight.

[Banedon]

http://www.trbimg.com/img-596783b2/turbine/ct-sammy-sosa-lighter-skin-20170713

 

[Bobson Dugnutt]

holy crap

[Omar]

i thought i was looking at Don Sterling at first glance

[Old Style]

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I'm starting to side with the cubs. that's the stuff of nightmares