General Cubs Chit-Chat

[Sammy Sofa]

GO, JORTS, GO.

[Sammy Sofa]

Also:

 

There you have it. If the man in the shorts here is a Brewers fan, he missed his team losing, 6-9.

 

NICE.

[David]

i liked this for reasons other than the one it was posted for

 

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[UMFan83]

i liked this for reasons other than the one it was posted for

 

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No no no no NO. Kris Bryant doesn't hit good pitching, remember?

[Cubswin11]

Strop was apparently throwing off of flat ground yesterday already

[Cubswin11]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJV_nq8AdOr/

[weis21]

This was fun to watch again and will never get old.

 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Best Records in MLB since the start of 2015:

 

Team  W    L    GB
CHC  175  109    -
STL  165  122   11.5
TOR  163  122   12.5
PIT  160  122   14
TEX  161  125   15
LAD  159  125   16
KC   158  127   17.5
WSN  156  128   19
CLE  151  131   23
SF   152  133   23.5
NYM  150  134   25

[Aaron_Kennelly]

You have to wait until the 5th spot in our lineup to face a guy with an OBP that doesn't rank in the top 15 in MLB.

[Pushfrog98]

Best Records in MLB since the start of 2015:

 

Team  W    L    GB
CHC  175  109    -
STL  165  122   11.5
TOR  163  122   12.5
PIT  160  122   14
TEX  161  125   15
LAD  159  125   16
KC   158  127   17.5
WSN  156  128   19
CLE  151  131   23
SF   152  133   23.5
NYM  150  134   25

I shared this in Facebook. First comment: "Yeah, but go back to 2014 and see how much your shitty team drops."

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Best Records in MLB since the start of 2015:

 

Team  W    L    GB
CHC  175  109    -
STL  165  122   11.5
TOR  163  122   12.5
PIT  160  122   14
TEX  161  125   15
LAD  159  125   16
KC   158  127   17.5
WSN  156  128   19
CLE  151  131   23
SF   152  133   23.5
NYM  150  134   25

I shared this in Facebook. First comment: "Yeah, but go back to 2014 and see how much your [expletive] team drops."

 

Did you let them know not much. Cardinals jump us by 6 games, pitt, and Dodgers. So 4th, could be off a little but I think that's it.

[Guancous]

For the Cubs to reach...

 

82 wins: 2-37

90 wins: 10-27

98 wins: 18-19

100 wins: 20-17

117 wins: 37-2

[Sammy Sofa]

There's so many conflicting emotions when reading that post. On the one hand, lots of good Cubs stuff. On the other hand, why are you the way you are?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I'm not 100% sure of the veracity of these numbers since Fox Sports is the only source and they don't seem to be super consistent, but I'm pretty sure that the Cubs lead the league in catcher pickoffs, with at least 10. That might be twice as many as the next best team.

[Sammy Sofa]

I'm not 100% sure of the veracity of these numbers since Fox Sports is the only source and they don't seem to be super consistent, but I'm pretty sure that the Cubs lead the league in catcher pickoffs, with at least 10. That might be twice as many as the next best team.

 

And that despite Montero being the wreck that he is? Damn.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I'm not 100% sure of the veracity of these numbers since Fox Sports is the only source and they don't seem to be super consistent, but I'm pretty sure that the Cubs lead the league in catcher pickoffs, with at least 10. That might be twice as many as the next best team.

 

And that despite Montero being the wreck that he is? Damn.

 

Again, these may not be accurate, given that Fox doesn't include Contreras in their team totals and I have no idea how frequently this is updated, but this is what they have by catcher:

 

Ross 5

Contreras 3

Montero 2

 

No other team is listed with more than 5.

[Banedon]

It's weird to me that Fox Sports is the only place with that stat.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

I'm not 100% sure of the veracity of these numbers since Fox Sports is the only source and they don't seem to be super consistent, but I'm pretty sure that the Cubs lead the league in catcher pickoffs, with at least 10. That might be twice as many as the next best team.

 

And that despite Montero being the wreck that he is? Damn.

 

Again, these may not be accurate, given that Fox doesn't include Contreras in their team totals and I have no idea how frequently this is updated, but this is what they have by catcher:

 

Ross 5

Contreras 3

Montero 2

 

No other team is listed with more than 5.

 

I've looked around and had the same problem. Fox Sports seemed like the only place that tracked pickoffs. I finally found it, venturing deep into the Baseball Reference catacombs. You can find it for teams and individuals in here. The team one is listed in the third table down, as "PO."

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2016-specialpos_c-fielding.shtml

 

They have Montero at 0, the Cubs with 8 as a team and no other team with more than 5. Ross leads the league, despite only starting 41 games behind the plate. And Contreras is third, despite only starting 26 games behind the plate. Ross led the league last year, too.

[davell]

If we lose 36 straight to finish out the season, we finish .500.

[soccer10k]

The difference between the Cubs and the 2nd best team (Texas) is the same as the difference between 2nd and 13th (Miami).

[Omar]

WSI

 

Maybe by the numbers, but it's still gotta be stressed who they're pitching against. When you have so many teams in the league tanking this year, it's a little easier to feast on them and put up numbers such as these. Without even looking at the stats, I'm gonna guess that the mid 90s Braves rotation was probably a little more dominant than this.

 

I agree with this. We all knew this was coming. The idiotic superlatives are coming out. I will only say this: Let's see if the Cubs rotation can throw four consecutive complete games in a playoff series. Beating teams like the Brewers and the sickly Padres doesn't make any staff the greatest of all time.

[Clem Fandango]

I hadn't even really noticed anyone saying that the Cubs have one of the greatest rotations of all time, but after looking up a few "Best of" lists, including one about the best rotations of all time and one about the best rotations of the past 25 years, if the Cubs rotation finished out the season continuing the pace they're on, they could easily be considered one of the best of all time.

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1734249-ranking-the-top-10-starting-rotations-of-the-last-25-years

http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=list/greatestrotations

[UMFan83]

Let's see if the Cubs rotation can throw four consecutive complete games in a playoff series.

 

Oh God they are already plotting out their way to downplay the Cubs winning the World Series "yeah you might have won the World Series with one of the more dominant teams ever but you didn't pitch 4 consecutive complete games in the LCS." or "Yeah but it took you losers 5 games to win the World Series. YOU ARE NOTHING until you SWEEP your opponent"

[Clem Fandango]

The widely considered best rotation of all time is the 98 Braves. Their numbers looked like this:

 

http://i.imgur.com/POBsavy.png

 

Here's what the Cubs, at present, look like:

 

http://i.imgur.com/ehGcOZv.png

 

They're really not all that far off from the consensus best rotation of all time. At the very least, if they keep up their pace, they could easily be considered one of the Top 5, IMO, maybe even Top 3... but we have injured Lackey and 2nd half Hammel making an appearance so who knows what will happen.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

not that it means our staff is chopped liver by any means, but 1998 was also a slightly more offense-friendly environment than today