9/13 Cubs (Hammel) @ Cardinals (Garcia) 7:15, ABC

[Aaron_Kennelly]

We're not a good matchup for Reyes.

[Sammy Sofa]

This dude is a complete wreck. Send him to Cardinal Hell.

[davell]

Can someone throw Hammel a bag of Doritos? Utz must be giving him the horsefeathers.

[UMFan83]

Reyes is the #2 prospect in baseball, has been awesome w Cards (4 er in 24 IP and 11.4 K/9) and is clearly a potential future ace and matheny started Garcia over him why?

 

Edit: I realize he was shaky that inning but better than mediocre ass Garcia)

[Schwarber Fan]

Addy needs to lay off the high heat. He's great with balls down in the zone, not so much up.

[UMFan83]

Addy needs to lay off the high heat. He's great with balls down in the zone, not so much up.

 

Haha I just read an article about how Addy has crushed high heat lately and pitchers are getting him out with pitches lower in the zone

[David]

Addy needs to lay off the high heat. He's great with balls down in the zone, not so much up.

Thx scouting fan

[David]

Scout scout scout scout

[davell]

Addy needs to lay off the high heat. He's great with balls down in the zone, not so much up.

 

Can someone make a sign and get him to read it before his next AB?

[BigSlick]

Addy needs to lay off the high heat. He's great with balls down in the zone, not so much up.

According to the Fangraphs piece on him recently, his ability to get at pitches high in the zone is what has made him that much better this year

[mul21]

Reyes is the #2 prospect in baseball, has been awesome w Cards (4 er in 24 IP and 11.4 K/9) and is clearly a potential future ace and matheny started Garcia over him why?

 

Edit: I realize he was shaky that inning but better than mediocre ass Garcia)

 

2 reasons, the first being total IP on the year even though he missed 50 games and the other being their completely trash bullpen right now.

[UMFan83]

Addy needs to lay off the high heat. He's great with balls down in the zone, not so much up.

According to the Fangraphs piece on him recently, his ability to get at pitches high in the zone is what has made him that much better this year

 

Yes that was the one I read. But he just doubled on a low pitch and popped up on a high one so that's all Heyward Fan needs to see

[Cubswin11]

What the hell was going on with Contreras there?

[BigSlick]

The Cubs have 6 walks and we're not thru 4 innings yet? We gotta figure out a way to put a big fat crooked number on that board yall

 

edit: walks. walks the edit is important

Edited September 14, 2016 by BigSlick

[squally1313]

To add on to everyone:

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/here-is-a-powered-up-addison-russell/

 

In like the third paragraph:

 

Earlier, Russell had a big problem catching up to high pitches — primarily fastballs. Good high heat could blow him away, but then when you look to the right side, you see that Russell’s contact has essentially risen. He’s made less contact low, and he’s made more contact high. The high contact has also become better contact.

[BigSlick]

7 walks now

 

Punish him for his folly

[UMFan83]

5 walks in 2 innings including walking the bases loaded in the same inning and you swing at the first pitch Jorge?

 

Fake edit; this is a total hindsight is 20-20 post

[Schwarber Fan]

This is gonna be one of those games where we load the bases every inning and the Cardinals win on a walk off blooper scoring a guy from first or some horsefeathers.

[Thusly Boned]

This game feels like it should be 5-2 or 6-2.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

This is gonna be one of those games where we load the bases every inning and the Cardinals win on a walk off blooper scoring a guy from first or some horsefeathers.

 

This is one of those games where we beat them because we are 17 games ahead of them and much better than them. Chill out.

[NonProfitCow]

Reyes is the #2 prospect in baseball, has been awesome w Cards (4 er in 24 IP and 11.4 K/9) and is clearly a potential future ace and matheny started Garcia over him why?

 

Edit: I realize he was shaky that inning but better than mediocre ass Garcia)

 

2 reasons, the first being total IP on the year even though he missed 50 games and the other being their completely trash bullpen right now.

You left out the 3rd and most important reason: Matheny is a garbage manager.

[TMan92]

Hammel pitching makes me unhappy.

[BigSlick]

Jason.....why....

[BigSlick]

ok, now put a big ugly number on the board

[CubmanPi]

I'm ready for that crooked number. Heyward dongs this inning.