General Cubs Chit-Chat

[rocket]

Add Schwarber to the kinda injured, probably could use an off day or 3 pile with Russell and Heyward

 

 

hopefully when rizzo gets plunked tonight he's not added to that list

[Banedon]

[Banedon]

[squally1313]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/jon-lester-might-be-beating-the-yips/

 

Pretty good article/interview on Lester's pickoffs. It really is amazing how effective they've become, in a total team effort, in shutting down the running game when he's on the mound.

[bukie]

Cubs' team ERA is now 4.01, which is good enough for 7th in MLB.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/jon-lester-might-be-beating-the-yips/

 

Pretty good article/interview on Lester's pickoffs. It really is amazing how effective they've become, in a total team effort, in shutting down the running game when he's on the mound.

 

This was a good article. I'm glad to see Jon decide to talk about it. Hopefully his frustration will continue to abate as we find ways to combat the issue. He really just needs to be calm and not worry about the runners and let everyone else take care of that horsefeathers. And hopefully that might help him some, too, like it did against the Cards.

 

If I could tell Jon one thing it's that not everyone was focused on his yips instead of his run prevention in the playoffs last year. We know what he did for us. :hello:

[Cubswin11]

They've seemed to of handled Addy's shoulder and Zobrists wrist injury very Mets like this year. I hope this isn't a trend moving forward.

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

They've seemed to of handled Addy's shoulder and Zobrists wrist injury very Mets like this year. I hope this isn't a trend moving forward.

 

 

Especially baffling with the 10-day DL.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

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Better not take him out of the rotation when Anderson comes back. Or when Hendricks comes back.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

The handling of these injuries is mind-boggling, especially with the depth we have (or at least had until other injuries/Schwarber sucking arose). We sent LaStella down to the minors because of a roster crunch.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Monty is legit. I really like him. Let him start forever, or at least until he runs up against an innings limit and you throw him in the pen for the playoff run.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

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[Sammy Sofa]

Nice.

 

Not nearly as many dumb dildos commenting as the Cardinals had, but still...shut the horsefeathers up, dip shits.

[Post Count Padder]

Joe's drunk

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[Sammy Sofa]

What the flunk is that thing.

[Cubswin11]

I mean Russell probably isn't available, Zobrist and Heyward are still on the DL and we are facing a lefty tonight so LaStella, Montero and Jay make sense not starting. The order may be weird but (whatever that doesn't really matter) those guys probably give us the best chance.

[Omar]

nah Joe isnt drunk hes on drugs.

 

these lineups are jackson polluck paintings

Edited June 26, 2017 by Omar

[philosophizer75]

I'm gonna be at this one. Hoping it's a good outing.

[weis21]

I mean Russell probably isn't available, Zobrist and Heyward are still on the DL and we are facing a lefty tonight so LaStella, Montero and Jay make sense not starting. The order may be weird but (whatever that doesn't really matter) those guys probably give us the best chance.

Yeah I kind of like it.

[weis21]

But that actually may be because I like a lot of weird horsefeathers

[UMFan83]

So we're just making these the game threads now? :lol:

[Omar]

nobody posted the gam thread

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Statcast now reporting on player speed: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sprint_speed_leaderboard?year=2017&position=&team=

 

The fastest Cub and in the Top 15 of all MLB is....Happ?

 

Bryant is the fastest 3B, faster than both Baez and Russell. Contreras is 2nd among catchers behind the shockingly fast Realmuto.

 

Montero is the 3rd slowest player in all of MLB, ahead of McCann and Pujols.

 

I'm not sure if this is measuring average or simply the fastest recorded time so take it with a grain of salt, but still fun.

[David]

Statcast now reporting on player speed: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sprint_speed_leaderboard?year=2017&position=&team=

 

The fastest Cub and in the Top 15 of all MLB is....Happ?

 

Bryant is the fastest 3B, faster than both Baez and Russell. Contreras is 2nd among catchers behind the shockingly fast Realmuto.

 

Montero is the 3rd slowest player in all of MLB, ahead of McCann and Pujols.

 

I'm not sure if this is measuring average or simply the fastest recorded time so take it with a grain of salt, but still fun.

 

so i'm guessing almora was too slow to even register w/the statcast equipment

[Rex Buckingham]

Statcast now reporting on player speed: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sprint_speed_leaderboard?year=2017&position=&team=

 

The fastest Cub and in the Top 15 of all MLB is....Happ?

 

Bryant is the fastest 3B, faster than both Baez and Russell. Contreras is 2nd among catchers behind the shockingly fast Realmuto.

 

Montero is the 3rd slowest player in all of MLB, ahead of McCann and Pujols.

 

I'm not sure if this is measuring average or simply the fastest recorded time so take it with a grain of salt, but still fun.

 

They're averaging it based on the average of at least 10 "max effort runs" for the leader boards. Basically, any time a guy is in a full sprint they pick the fastest one second window of that run and throw it into the set from which they derive the average.