General Cubs Chit-Chat

[chopsx9]

Woof, that is not a flattering angle for such a beautiful, beautiful dude.

 

Facing frontwards? Not sure I follow.

[David]

Woof, that is not a flattering angle for such a beautiful, beautiful dude.

 

Facing frontwards? Not sure I follow.

pretty sure there's more to angles than just front side and back

[Sammy Sofa]

Bad pic quality, bad angle, bad lighting...basically makes him look like an oaf with Brillo pad hair instead of the sexual stallion that he is with his majestic mane.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Harper is very good at baseball but he has always looked like a werewolf

[Sammy Sofa]

Harper is very good at baseball but he has always looked like a werewolf

 

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[CaliforniaRaisin]

i don't hate homerpalooza (though i definitely don't seem to hold it in as high a regard as you guys)...just came to mind as a weird episode

 

You probably don't like Homerpalooza as much because you wouldn't miss a Cubs playoff game for any of the bands in that episode.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

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[biittner77]

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Doesn't that probably happen every year though? It stands to reason that Cy Young candidates are pitching for playoff teams and are going to make multiple starts in any playoff series.

[TarzanJoeWallis]

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Doesn't that probably happen every year though? It stands to reason that Cy Young candidates are pitching for playoff teams and are going to make multiple starts in any playoff series.

 

Not necessarily. Could be that a finalist doesn't make the playoffs. Could be that the finalist is on the other side of the playoff bracket. Could be that the finalist is on your team. This year the Nationals and Dodgers faced a finalist in zero of their NL playoff games.

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Doesn't that probably happen every year though? It stands to reason that Cy Young candidates are pitching for playoff teams and are going to make multiple starts in any playoff series.

 

Not necessarily. Could be that a finalist doesn't make the playoffs. Could be that the finalist is on the other side of the playoff bracket. Could be that the finalist is on your team. This year the Nationals and Dodgers faced a finalist in zero of their NL playoff games.

 

Valid points. How many Cy Young finalists are there?

[Bobson Dugnutt]

 

Doesn't that probably happen every year though? It stands to reason that Cy Young candidates are pitching for playoff teams and are going to make multiple starts in any playoff series.

 

Not necessarily. Could be that a finalist doesn't make the playoffs. Could be that the finalist is on the other side of the playoff bracket. Could be that the finalist is on your team. This year the Nationals and Dodgers faced a finalist in zero of their NL playoff games.

 

Valid points. How many Cy Young finalists are there?

 

3. Last year, Kluber was the only Cy Young finalist the Cubs faced throughout the playoffs. In 2015, they faced zero.

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Doesn't that probably happen every year though? It stands to reason that Cy Young candidates are pitching for playoff teams and are going to make multiple starts in any playoff series.

 

Not really... Looking at ALCS and NLCS teams the last few years. If a Cy Young finalist played for the team in question, I went down 1 spot in the voting.

 

2017 Dodgers: 0 out of 15 games (although we don't know who is 4th in NL Cy Young voting, so not sure who to replace Kershaw with. If its Greinke, then 1 out of 15 games)

2017 Cubs: 5 out of 10 games (Strasburg x2, Scherzer, Kershaw x2)

2017 Astros: 5 out of 18 games (Sale, Severino x2, Kershaw x2)

2017 Yankees: 2 out of 12 games (Kluber x2 - Same as Dodgers, don't know who finished 4th)

2016 Dodgers: 6 out of 11 games (Scherzer x2, Lester x2, Hendricks x2)

2016 Cubs: 6 out of 17 games (Bumgarner, Kershaw x2, Kluber x3)

2016 Blue Jays: 2 out of 9 games (Kluber x2 - Kluber is the only pitcher in the Top 10 of voting that the Jays faced that year)

2016 Indians: 5 out of 15 games (Porcello, Lester x2, Hendricks x2)

2015 Mets: 5 out of 14 games (Kershaw x2, Greinke x2, Arrieta)

2015 Cubs: 1 out of 9 games (Cole)

2015 Royals: 3 out of 16 games (Kuechel, Price x2)

2015 Jays: 0 out of 11 games

2014 Giants: 2 out of 16 games (Wainwright x2)

2014 Cardinals: 4 out of 9 games (Kershaw x2, Bumgarner x2)

2014 Royals: 0 out of 15 games

2014 Orioles: 0 out of 7 games

 

So on average, a team faced a starter who is a Cy Young finalist 46 times in 204 games (23% of the time). The highest percentages in a run were the 2016 Dodgers (55%), 2017 Cubs (50%), , 2014 Cardinals (44%), 2015 Mets (36%) and 2016 Cubs (35%).

 

Of course its kind of limiting to draw the line at Top 3 Cy Young finishers as there are plenty of extremely good pitchers who didn't finish top 3 for whatever reason. BTW, in the games the Cubs didn't face Kershaw, Strasburg and Scherzer, they faced Alex Wood (2.72 ERA), Gio Gonzalez (2.96 ERA) x2, Rich Hill (3.32 ERA), Yu Darvish (3.44 ERA).

 

Edit: Correction, for some reason I missed 1 Hendricks start against the 2016 Dodgers. Dodgers faced one 55% of the time, most of any team over the last 4 postseasons.

Edited November 7, 2017 by UMFan83

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Doesn't that probably happen every year though? It stands to reason that Cy Young candidates are pitching for playoff teams and are going to make multiple starts in any playoff series.

 

Not really... Looking at ALCS and NLCS teams the last few years. If a Cy Young finalist played for the team in question, I went down 1 spot in the voting.

 

2017 Dodgers: 0 out of 15 games (although we don't know who is 4th in NL Cy Young voting, so not sure who to replace Kershaw with. If its Greinke, then 1 out of 15 games)

2017 Cubs: 5 out of 10 games (Strasburg x2, Scherzer, Kershaw x2)

2017 Astros: 5 out of 18 games (Sale, Severino x2, Kershaw x2)

2017 Yankees: 2 out of 12 games (Kluber x2 - Same as Dodgers, don't know who finished 4th)

2016 Dodgers: 5 out of 11 games (Scherzer x2, Lester x2, Hendricks)

2016 Cubs: 6 out of 17 games (Bumgarner, Kershaw x2, Kluber x3)

2016 Blue Jays: 2 out of 9 games (Kluber x2 - Kluber is the only pitcher in the Top 10 of voting that the Jays faced that year)

2016 Indians: 5 out of 15 games (Porcello, Lester x2, Hendricks x2)

2015 Mets: 5 out of 14 games (Kershaw x2, Greinke x2, Arrieta)

2015 Cubs: 1 out of 9 games (Cole)

2015 Royals: 3 out of 16 games (Kuechel, Price x2)

2015 Jays: 0 out of 11 games

2014 Giants: 2 out of 16 games (Wainwright x2)

2014 Cardinals: 4 out of 9 games (Kershaw x2, Bumgarner x2)

2014 Royals: 0 out of 15 games

2014 Orioles: 0 out of 7 games

 

So on average, a team faced a starter who is a Cy Young finalist 45 times in 204 games (22% of the time). The highest percentages in a run were the 2017 Cubs (50%), 2016 Dodgers (45%), 2014 Cardinals (44%), 2015 Mets (36%) and 2016 Cubs (35%).

 

Of course its kind of limiting to draw the line at Top 3 Cy Young finishers as there are plenty of extremely good pitchers who didn't finish top 3 for whatever reason. BTW, in the games the Cubs didn't face Kershaw, Strasburg and Scherzer, they faced Alex Wood (2.72 ERA), Gio Gonzalez (2.96 ERA) x2, Rich Hill (3.32 ERA), Yu Darvish (3.44 ERA).

 

And a CYA finalist (Scherzer) pitched out of the bullpen in one of their other 5 playoff games.

[Cubswin11]

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Some photos/video from the new Cubs offices in the triangle building: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/careers/topworkplaces/ct-biz-top-workplaces-2017-midsize-chicago-cubs-20170920-story.html

 

Looks like there's a wall that recreates the chalk messages on the Wrigley brick from the 2016 playoffs.

[jersey cubs fan]

Some photos/video from the new Cubs offices in the triangle building: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/careers/topworkplaces/ct-biz-top-workplaces-2017-midsize-chicago-cubs-20170920-story.html

 

Looks like there's a wall that recreates the chalk messages on the Wrigley brick from the 2016 playoffs.

I love how it starts with people awkwardly walking through still video of random walls, apologizing for getting in the way.

[David]

Some photos/video from the new Cubs offices in the triangle building: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/careers/topworkplaces/ct-biz-top-workplaces-2017-midsize-chicago-cubs-20170920-story.html

 

Looks like there's a wall that recreates the chalk messages on the Wrigley brick from the 2016 playoffs.

 

At least they didn't erase sammy from their offices

[imb]

they should sign him to a one-day deal so he can retire a cub

[UMFan83]

Kind of crazy that Ian Happ didn’t get a single ROY vote (i think they vote for top 3). Very strong year for rookies...if this was a different season he might have won it.

 

Edit: i stand corrected. Looks like he got 1 third place vote

[ScrubMD]

Not that 3rd place in ROY voting matters, but I don't understand all the votes for Bell. Happ, Marquez, and Hoskins were all better.

[Brian]

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Happ with a smirk, makes me worried there may be a missing person. That and him being the only person there solo.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I’m not even mad at myself that I don’t recognize half of those guys

[Cubswin11]

I’m not even mad at myself that I don’t recognize half of those guys

From left to right.... Miggy, Hendricks, Schwarber, Travis Wood, Grimm, Borzello, Jake, Happ, Lackey. Don’t know what that group is doing together other than I saw someone say they think it’s Hendricks wedding this weekend. I’m sure David can let us know when he sees this what the occasion is.

[Banedon]

Happ with a smirk, makes me worried there may be a missing person. That and him being the only person there solo.

 

Hendricks appears to be solo.

[jersey cubs fan]

I’m not even mad at myself that I don’t recognize half of those guys

There is one unrecognizable face in the group, the rest are/were fairly prominent Cubs.