General Cubs Chit-Chat

[Derwood]

Our long terrible nightmare (Wednesday) is over

[Derwood]

Cubs currently have a 4.5 game lead on the NL

[Derwood]

In five games, the Cubs have outscored the Pirates 37-11

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Anthony Rizzo is on pace to score more than 130 runs, drive in more than 150 runs, hit more than 50 homers, and walk 120 times, while striking out fewer than 90 times. His OPS is comfortably over 1.000. He ranks fourth among MLB first basemen in UZR and third in DRS.

 

He also ranks fourth in fWAR among our position players.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

As of right now, here's where our guys rank on the MLB fWAR leaderboard:

 

3. Fowler

10. Bryant

11. Zobrist

13. Rizzo

29. Russell

 

All five starting pitchers are among the top 30 pitchers in MLB in fWAR, too.

[Clem Fandango]

Bryant hasn't played enough innings at 3B this year to qualify for fielding metrics on FanGraphs leaderboards, but of all 3B with a minimum of 100 innings played at the position, Bryant has the 3rd best UZR behind Nolan Arenado and Adrian Beltre. He also has the #1 UZR/150,

[Banedon]

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[CaliforniaRaisin]

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Seems like they're really cut up about Gerrit Cole's comments.

[Banedon]

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[David]

#meetings

[imb]

lmao gerrit cole

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/the-walk-off--gerrit-cole-disses-cubs-after-shutting-them-down-042058768.html

 

[UMFan83]

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Seems like they're really cut up about Gerrit Cole's comments.

 

This team is so awesome.

[sneakypower]

Bryant hasn't played enough innings at 3B this year to qualify for fielding metrics on FanGraphs leaderboards, but of all 3B with a minimum of 100 innings played at the position, Bryant has the 3rd best UZR behind Nolan Arenado and Adrian Beltre. He also has the #1 UZR/150,

this amuses me; DRS has him 8 runs behind Arenado and he's made 2 out-of-zone plays to Nolan's 26(!)

 

but to be fair he's converted nearly everything within his zone, best at the position by far

[Cubswin11]

Get Derrick Rose's stink away from this team

[Tim]

I hope he isn't there to give rehab advice to Schwarbs.

[UMFan83]

Random guy on reddit so take it with a grain of salt:

 

My friend who greets at the airport just informed me that Mr. Nathan is meeting with the Cubs. He gave me the report last year of Soler being in a boot so I trust what he tells me. We definitely need some bullpen help if you ask me. Maybe Nathan still has something left in the tank.

[Andy]

I don't doubt the FO would go dumpster diving for bullpen reinforcements - they basically did last year - but I can't see any scenario where Nathan would pan out.

[Irrelevant Dude]

Random guy on reddit so take it with a grain of salt:

 

My friend who greets at the airport just informed me that Mr. Nathan is meeting with the Cubs. He gave me the report last year of Soler being in a boot so I trust what he tells me. We definitely need some bullpen help if you ask me. Maybe Nathan still has something left in the tank.

Well, he did have an ERA of 0.00 last year...

[BigbadB]

My wife bought me a "Try Not To Suck" t-shirt for your 18 year anniversary of our first date. Yay! The UPS man just brought it to me. There is no finer gift!

[David]

i'm so going to stanley's the next night before an off day at home

[Irrelevant Dude]

My wife bought me a "Try Not To Suck" t-shirt for your 18 year anniversary of our first date.

I can barely remember the date of my wedding. I have declared all other "anniversaries" null and void.

[David]

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[Tim]

My wife bought me a "Try Not To Suck" t-shirt for your 18 year anniversary of our first date.

I can barely remember the date of my wedding. I have declared all other "anniversaries" null and void.

I solved that by getting married on April Fool's Day.

[Sammy Sofa]

i'm so going to stanley's the next night before an off day at home

 

I'm a little baffled by why they insist on going somewhere so lame.

 

Plus I'm bitter that I've only seen Wood and, inexplicably, Glendon Rusch there.

[BigbadB]

My wife bought me a "Try Not To Suck" t-shirt for your 18 year anniversary of our first date.

I can barely remember the date of my wedding. I have declared all other "anniversaries" null and void.

 

I didn't remember it. My wife did. And actually, mine is easy to remember, because our first date was on same night as the final episode of Seinfeld.