9/7 Cubs (Montgomery) @ Brewers (Garza) - 7:10 PM CST CSN

[Aaron_Kennelly]

So holding in a horsefeathers affects velocity?

[UMFan83]

Man our offense has been less than enjoyable to watch tonight save Rizzo

[squally1313]

Man our offense has been less than enjoyable to watch tonight save Rizzo

I like to just buy hard into gambler's fallacy on night's like tonight. Makes it more likely we're going to dong our way through October.

[UMFan83]

Man our offense has been less than enjoyable to watch tonight save Rizzo

I like to just buy hard into gambler's fallacy on night's like tonight. Makes it more likely we're going to dong our way through October.

 

Well guys like Fowler and Zobrist are due to play better. Contreras too most likely. Russell and even Bryant are in minislumps. I'd rather these guys be slumping now and putting it together in a month.

[Gilby]

Cahill hasn't thrown enough strikes this year to be on the playoff roster.

[Gilby]

"See what I mean?"

 

-Hawk Harrelson

[Rex Buckingham]

Gotta figure Montgomery is getting a shot at the rotation next spring, right?

[UMFan83]

Cahill hasn't thrown enough strikes this year to be on the playoff roster.

 

I don't think he will be. They will keep 11 and they will be

 

Arrieta, Lester, Hendricks, Lackey, Chapman(L), Rondon ®, Strop®, Grimm ®, Edwards ®, Wood (L), Montgomery (L)

 

Joe will keep Wood and Montgomery because his 3 primary setup men are all righties and other than Chapman who is locked into closer regardless he doesn't have any lefties

[squally1313]

Man our offense has been less than enjoyable to watch tonight save Rizzo

I like to just buy hard into gambler's fallacy on night's like tonight. Makes it more likely we're going to dong our way through October.

 

Well guys like Fowler and Zobrist are due to play better. Contreras too most likely. Russell and even Bryant are in minislumps. I'd rather these guys be slumping now and putting it together in a month.

 

Addy has been our second best hitter besides Rizzo in the last week (unless you want to count Miggy's 10 PAs). But yeah, Dex, Zobrist, Contreras, and Javy will all be playing better, and Bryant to a lesser extent. Heyward is back to a .231/.259/.231, but I'm not even sure what to hope the improvement is from there.

 

Montgomery was encouraging. Wouldn't mind him getting a look for the rotation next year.

[davell]

Gotta figure Montgomery is getting a shot at the rotation next spring, right?

 

Definitely. Especially if we don't exercise Hammel's option or trade him. But we'll add a SP thru FA or trade anyway, so my guess is Montgomery is our 6th guy, unless he really, really forces the issue.

[TruffleShuffle]

didn't they have a RH bat to PH for gennett? he's awful against LHP.

[squally1313]

Cahill hasn't thrown enough strikes this year to be on the playoff roster.

 

I don't think he will be. They will keep 11 and they will be

 

Arrieta, Lester, Hendricks, Lackey, Chapman(L), Rondon ®, Strop®, Grimm ®, Edwards ®, Wood (L), Montgomery (L)

 

Joe will keep Wood and Montgomery because his 3 primary setup men are all righties and other than Chapman who is locked into closer regardless he doesn't have any lefties

 

Probably depends on who the other team is right? I think Cahill is probably 'better' than at least one of Wood and Montgomery. Looking through the Cardinals, no one really stands out as being terrible against lefties, at least this year. I think Joe really likes Cahill's ability to get a groundball, especially with the infield alignments we've been putting out there.

[TruffleShuffle]

Gotta figure Montgomery is getting a shot at the rotation next spring, right?

 

Definitely. Especially if we don't exercise Hammel's option or trade him. But we'll add a SP thru FA or trade anyway, so my guess is Montgomery is our 6th guy, unless he really, really forces the issue.

 

i can't imagine they wouldn't exercise his option. it's only $10m and he's worth that pretty easily.

[Cubswin11]

Why double switch with Almora if you are just going to PH for him?

[Gilby]

Heyward looks like he could be Carl's dad and they're like the same age

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Edwards looks like Heyward's child sitting next to him

[CincyCubsFan]

Fowler really has been horsefeathers-tastic lately.

 

 

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[Ding Dong Johnson]

Why double switch with Almora if you are just going to PH for him?

yeah, not a huge deal with the expanded rosters, but that's a head scratcher

[UMFan83]

Well at least Dex is making me less depressed about not resigning him after this season.

 

Don't get me wrong I'd like to have him back but I'd want him back a lot more if he didn't have a .670 OPS in the 2nd half of the season.

[TMan92]

Bomb

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Villar is annoying as horsefeathers

[UMFan83]

Well that's probably game giving the Cubs offense tonight

 

Wanted to get to 90 before 50 losses. Oh well

[CincyCubsFan]

Lol. horsefeathers off Villar.

 

 

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[Aaron_Kennelly]

Oh, so he still sucks.

[davell]

Gotta figure Montgomery is getting a shot at the rotation next spring, right?

 

Definitely. Especially if we don't exercise Hammel's option or trade him. But we'll add a SP thru FA or trade anyway, so my guess is Montgomery is our 6th guy, unless he really, really forces the issue.

 

i can't imagine they wouldn't exercise his option. it's only $10m and he's worth that pretty easily.

 

I agree that he's worth it. But I can see the possibility that we don't want the salary on our books if we can't trade him. But the SP market thru FA is so weak, we should be able to.