General Cubs Chit-Chat

[champaignchris]

Cubs current winning percentage of .371 would be the 4th worst winning percentage in team history, with only 1962, 1966 and 1981 being worse.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Cubs current winning percentage of .371 would be the 4th worst winning percentage in team history, with only 1962, 1966 and 1981 being worse.

[Banedon]

[Andy]

Where's the best spot to park for the game tomorrow without dropping a ton of cash?

If you're willing to walk a bit (15 minutes or so), once you get north of the Clark & Southport intersection, you can legally park on the street next to the cemetery without paying.

[cl smooth]

Where's the best spot to park for the game tomorrow without dropping a ton of cash?

 

when i'm in town, i usually park near belmont or montrose harbor and walk to wrigley.

[CubinNY]

I keep getting texts from the Cubs to purchase tickets for Father's day, "before they're gone".

[UMFan83]

Where's the best spot to park for the game tomorrow without dropping a ton of cash?

 

when i'm in town, i usually park near belmont or montrose harbor and walk to wrigley.

 

Yep, also anything west of Ashland is typically free. Last game I went to I found a free spot just south of Addison and Ashland and made the 10 minute or so walk. If you don't mind walking its not that difficult to find a free spot, especially because the Cubs blow and the park isn't full most nights.

[Bertz]

Where's the best spot to park for the game tomorrow without dropping a ton of cash?

 

when i'm in town, i usually park near belmont or montrose harbor and walk to wrigley.

 

Yep, also anything west of Ashland is typically free. Last game I went to I found a free spot just south of Addison and Ashland and made the 10 minute or so walk. If you don't mind walking its not that difficult to find a free spot, especially because the Cubs blow and the park isn't full most nights.

 

Yeah this is the play. I used to live right over there by the Whole Foods and it's basically the perfect distance to be close enough for the walk to be reasonable while far enough for parking and traffic to not be too bad yet.

[Tryptamine]

Ten games into the season when the Cubs were 6-4, I almost started thinking that maybe they weren't terrible and could fluke their way into 80 wins. After going 17-35 over the next 52, I can assuredly say they have a top 4 pick coming. I'm not confident this team wins 60 games, especially after they lose Contreras and more.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Ten games into the season when the Cubs were 6-4, I almost started thinking that maybe they weren't terrible and could fluke their way into 80 wins. After going 17-35 over the next 52, I can assuredly say they have a top 4 pick coming. I'm not confident this team wins 60 games, especially after they lose Contreras and more.

 

As with the season so far, it's gonna depend on the SP. Right now they're 18th in position player WAR, 19th in reliever WAR, and 28th in SP. If you had told any of us before the season that the Top 4 starters(Hendricks, Stroman, Miley, Smyly) will make 55% of the starts, and that Hendricks and Stroman combined for a 5+ ERA when they do start, we'd have said that team is not gonna win 75 games and might struggle to win 70.

 

If you want the optimist's case, you don't have to squint very hard to see improvement from Hendricks/Stroman, and if Smyly and/or Miley aren't healthy soon they aren't gonna get dealt when they do get healthy, plus Kilian is likely to get his legs under him. Yes trading Contreras would suck but that's easier to weather over 2 months than half your rotation being hurt and the other half being bad(especially b/c of the downstream effects like pulling Thompson out of the pen).

 

But none of that has to happen, any of the hurt pitchers could stay hurt or come back bad, Hendricks and Kilian might not find their command, Steele could run out of steam with a full season's workload. If things don't get better than they are now they're gonna be in the lottery. I don't think failing to win 60 games is particularly likely(they're still on pace for 61 after losing 9 straight), but that's not a terribly meaningful distinction. What matters more than winning 58 or 64 or 72 or 77 games is what pieces they comfortably have in place for next year.

[Derwood]

I keep getting texts from the Cubs to purchase tickets for Father's day, "before they're gone".

 

They just mean "before the Cubs are mathematically eliminated"

[We Got The Whole 9]

I keep getting texts from the Cubs to purchase tickets for Father's day, "before they're gone".

 

They just mean "before the Cubs are mathematically eliminated"

Or before Willy, Happ, and anybody worth a horsefeathers is gone

 

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[Ding Dong Johnson]

I know everyone’s on the edge of their seats. I parked at a spot at DePaul and rode the train in. That was the easiest trip in and out of the park I’ve ever taken. Cheap too.

[UMFan83]

 

How are they so bad at this year after year?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

It was part of the Theo deal. Chris Carpenter + you must suck at hitting with RISP.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

 

How are they so bad at this year after year?

That's pretty amazing. I'd like to see those numbers equalized to overall BA. I'm sure they are still ridiculous.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

It's a little more understandable when you see that even the good teams were never all that good at batting average in general:

 

2022 - 15th

2021 - 24th

2020 - 27th

2019 - 13th

2018 - 4th

2017 - 16th

2016 - 14th

2015 - 29th

2014 - 27th

2013 - 27th

2012 - 26th

 

If you look at something more comprehensive than average, then you see more of an alignment with the overall quality of the offense. They were in the top half in RISP wOBA the same years they were in the top half of wOBA overall, with the one true outlier being 2018.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

 

Contreras up on the catchers vote by a good margin.

[We Got The Whole 9]

It's meaningless but the Cubs haven't had a 300 hitter since pre-Theo Starlin. I figure that's gotta be a record.

[Cubswin11]

It's meaningless but the Cubs haven't had a 300 hitter since pre-Theo Starlin. I figure that's gotta be a record.

Zobrist hit .308 in 2018 and KB and Jay both had like .296 season(s). Rizzo had two low-mid .290 seasons too. Which yeah not .300+ but that’s basically a rounding error and like what,~12 more hits over the course of the year?

[We Got The Whole 9]

It's meaningless but the Cubs haven't had a 300 hitter since pre-Theo Starlin. I figure that's gotta be a record.

Zobrist hit .308 in 2018 and KB and Jay both had like .296 season(s). Rizzo had two low-mid .290 seasons too. Which yeah not .300+ but that’s basically a rounding error and like what,~12 more hits over the course of the year?

 

Ah my bad, missed Zobrist. Good catch. I thought about this a couple weeks ago, and yeah, stupid distinction.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Bummer for Ethan, kinda assumed this was coming when he left a rehab outing with arm pain

 

[Derwood]

Here's a fun fact:

 

The 1997 Cubs started the season 0-14. They finished the year 68-94

 

The 2022 Cubs are currently on pace to finish 61-101

[We Got The Whole 9]

Since returning from the IL on 5/25 Nico has the lowest K rate in baseball at 4.9% and the next closest is JRam at 6.6%. Nico has struck out just 3 times in June. What's also encouraging and somewhat exciting is that he's maintained his LA during that time and that is just below 10 on the season, which is a number that several guys live at and still punch out 20 HR a year with. He could be in for a major breakout next year. During that time post-IL he's put up the 2nd best defense across baseball also.

[champaignchris]

Here's a fun fact:

 

The 1997 Cubs started the season 0-14. They finished the year 68-94

 

The 2022 Cubs are currently on pace to finish 61-101

 

This team currently has a worse winning percentage than the 2012 Cubs, the worst team of the Theo rebuild, and would be the 4th worst team in franchise history with only 1962, 1966 and 1981 being worse, all before Contreras, Robertson, and etc. are traded away.

 

This year’s team wasn’t supposed to be great, but it wasn’t supposed to be “one of the 5 worst teams in the 147-year franchise history” bad.