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Montero tweeted it, but I didn't realize......the Cubs catchers combined for exactly 30 HRs and 100 RBI this year, thanks to late inning heroics by Contreras and Montero. Granted, Contreras hit a HR, 6 RBI as a LF and had a pinch hit HR to account for those totals. But that's pretty good production from the C position.
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Montero tweeted it, but I didn't realize......the Cubs catchers combined for exactly 30 HRs and 100 RBI this year, thanks to late inning heroics by Contreras and Montero. Granted, Contreras hit a HR, 6 RBI as a LF and had a pinch hit HR to account for those totals. But that's pretty good production from the C position.

 

Not to mention, like, 588 runs saved with their framing.

seanimal South Bend Cubs

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Montero tweeted it, but I didn't realize......the Cubs catchers combined for exactly 30 HRs and 100 RBI this year, thanks to late inning heroics by Contreras and Montero. Granted, Contreras hit a HR, 6 RBI as a LF and had a pinch hit HR to account for those totals. But that's pretty good production from the C position.

 

Not to mention, like, 588 runs saved with their framing.

 

abuck rn

 

http://i.imgur.com/0mKXcg1.gif

jersey cubs fan GOAT

jersey cubs fan

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that might be right. i'll take 5 pm, and hopefully it'll be an RD game by the time i have to walk in the doors.

I've gotta say, I'm pretty surprised to hear that you're choosing a Kanye concert over a Cubs playoff game David. Especially this Cubs team.

 

kanye concerts happen every few years. there will be many playoff games. especially silly division series ones.

 

made these plans and bought the tickets months ago and i'm not gonna bail on a group of 7 other people like some kind of weirdo because i have to watch a baseball game.

Are you still on the side of the quitters?

 

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David GOAT

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haha wow. he already had a secret show that had to be canceled in NY a few weeks ago (but that was because the crowds were too insane)

 

a good percentage of those people are mets fans i'm sure, so horsefeathers em!

Clem Fandango All-Star

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nice article

 

 

also i just stumbled onto this while looking for something else. lmao how stupid. i expected it to be one of those bizarre fan articles you find on bleacher report or some random site.

 

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/chicago-cubs-have-young-talent-and-should-let-jim-hendry-reap-the-rewards-050811

 

its awesome how many BAD opinions are in that article lol

 

If Ricketts changes GMs, his new guy is going to end up looking pretty smart because of Jim Hendry

 

Probably my favorite

David GOAT

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I've gotta say, I'm pretty surprised to hear that you're choosing a Kanye concert over a Cubs playoff game David. Especially this Cubs team.

 

kanye concerts happen every few years. there will be many playoff games. especially silly division series ones.

 

made these plans and bought the tickets months ago and i'm not gonna bail on a group of 7 other people like some kind of weirdo because i have to watch a baseball game.

Are you still on the side of the quitters?

 

 

So turns out Kim got robbed at gunpoint in Paris

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http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/how-the-cubs-stack-up-within-baseball-history/

 

No big deal, just Jeff Sullivan making the convincing argument that the 2016 Cubs had one of the top seasons in baseball history.

 

Out of everyone, the Cubs rank in the top three percent in winning. They rank in the top one percent in run differential, and in OPS differential. That’s why you could make the argument they were even a little unlucky. The best ranking here is OPS differential — in that specific category, the Cubs rank 12th.

 

I decided I wanted to go another step further. As much as I like those general statistics, an overall rank does nothing to capture performance against league spread. I feel like performance should be evaluated differently if it occurred in a season with very much or very little parity. So for every individual league-season, I calculated the standard deviation in each of the three stats. Then, for every team in every season, I calculated z-scores for each of the three stats. A z-scores just measures the number of standard deviations away from the average. Here are the new Cubs rankings, including a fourth bar, which just takes the average of the three z-scores:

 

http://cdn.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cubs-rankings-z.png

 

The Cubs manage to shine even more. By winning, they’re just out of the top 10, but they’re now fifth by run differential, and second by OPS differential. The average of the three z-scores puts them in sixth. The five teams ahead of them:

 

1984 Tigers (won World Series)

1986 Mets (won World Series)

1995 Indians (lost World Series)

2001 Mariners (shut up)

1944 Cardinals (won World Series)

 

There are a lot of ways to try to slice this, but you could convincingly argue this identifies the best teams ever (or at least since 1913). The Cubs would fit in pretty well with the group. This analysis loves those 1984 Tigers — they finished with eight more wins than anyone else, and across the three stats, they were an average of 2.63 standard deviations better than the mean. The Cubs show up at an average of 2.38 standard deviations better than the mean. That doesn’t make them the best team in baseball history, and I haven’t even made an attempt to adjust for the National League seemingly being worse than the American League, but the Cubs are around the best ever. They could hold their own in conversation.

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Wait a second..game two is not going to be on cable? Are you [expletive] kidding me?! MLBN only?!

 

FS1 has UFC stuffs that night so I imagine that's the problem. Maybe MLB shot down being on FS2?

Andy GOAT

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Wait a second..game two is not going to be on cable? Are you [expletive] kidding me?! MLBN only?!

 

FS1 has UFC stuffs that night so I imagine that's the problem. Maybe MLB shot down being on FS2?

MLBN always gets a couple of playoff games regardless of whatever else is going on. They did last year too but both of them were AL games.

jumbo Draft Eligible

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Wait a second..game two is not going to be on cable? Are you [expletive] kidding me?! MLBN only?!

 

FS1 has UFC stuffs that night so I imagine that's the problem. Maybe MLB shot down being on FS2?

MLBN always gets a couple of playoff games regardless of whatever else is going on. They did last year too but both of them were AL games.

 

No way they blackout the playoffs, right?

UMFan83 GOAT

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FS1 has UFC stuffs that night so I imagine that's the problem. Maybe MLB shot down being on FS2?

MLBN always gets a couple of playoff games regardless of whatever else is going on. They did last year too but both of them were AL games.

 

No way they blackout the playoffs, right?

 

Huh? Why would they do that when they are the only network in the country broadcasting the game?

Andy GOAT

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MLBN always gets a couple of playoff games regardless of whatever else is going on. They did last year too but both of them were AL games.

 

No way they blackout the playoffs, right?

 

Huh? Why would they do that when they are the only network in the country broadcasting the game?

Yeah, I'm not sure jumbo realizes those blackouts don't apply when the local RSNs don't have the game.

jumbo Draft Eligible

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No way they blackout the playoffs, right?

 

Huh? Why would they do that when they are the only network in the country broadcasting the game?

Yeah, I'm not sure jumbo realizes those blackouts don't apply when the local RSNs don't have the game.

 

Thanks, guys.

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Wait a second. Does MLB.TV show playoff games now? I don't have MLBNetwork anymore.

 

 

I don't believe so, but you can stream the audio...

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