Cubs rotation moves

[jersey cubs fan]

 

cubs are going with 2 lefties in the LA Dodgers series, and Lester gets the home opener

[jersey cubs fan]

My guess is this was prearranged.

 

The Cubs aren't suddenly surprised to find out LA struggles against the LHP. They announced their rotation to start the season but that doesn't lock them into using the same 5 guys in order every time through. Arrieta goes on regular rest to start while the guy signed longterm gets a little extra rest to start the season. They will probably work in some extra rest of Arrieta down the line.

Edited April 6, 2017 by jersey cubs fan

[David]

Was already being discussed in the general thread, but as I'm team anti-megathread, I'll just move it over here.

 

 

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they shuffled the rotation around.

 

this kind of annoys me as I was looking forward to seeing arrieta on monday, but w/e. also lester hates the pomp and circumstance of opening day festivities so i'm sure he's jazzed about doing it twice in a about week.

 

Oh well, he gets the gift of pitching to the hapless vs. LHP Dodgers

 

true but he was facing the brewers anyway and jake hasn't exactly struggled vs LA.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

The Cubs aren't suddenly surprised to find out LA struggles against the Dodgers.

 

Well, maybe a little surprised.

 

 

More seriously, this move is delightful to me for some reason. Basically taunting the Dodgers for not fixing their ability to hit LHP.

[David]

The Cubs aren't suddenly surprised to find out LA struggles against the Dodgers.

 

Well, maybe a little surprised.

 

 

More seriously, this move is delightful to me for some reason. Basically taunting the Dodgers for not fixing their ability to hit LHP.

 

Well, they did get Forsythe.

 

Can't see platooning Seager vs. just letting a young superstar try to improve at it. Same kinda goes for Pederson (without the super part).

 

Grandal was good vs both hands last year, despite a crappy BA.

 

Could've easily gotten a platoon partner for Gonzalez, though. And I had no idea Turner had such drastic reverse splits.

[bukie]

The Cubs aren't suddenly surprised to find out LA struggles against the Dodgers.

 

Well, maybe a little surprised.

 

 

More seriously, this move is delightful to me for some reason. Basically taunting the Dodgers for not fixing their ability to hit LHP.

But Aaron Boone told me otherwise.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

oh great now the dodgers will steal every base because Lester can't make anybody not steal every base

[Ding Dong Johnson]

and as I typed that, Lindor got thrown out again

 

Smoltz'd

[Transmogrified Tiger]

The Cubs aren't suddenly surprised to find out LA struggles against the Dodgers.

 

Well, maybe a little surprised.

 

 

More seriously, this move is delightful to me for some reason. Basically taunting the Dodgers for not fixing their ability to hit LHP.

 

Well, they did get Forsythe.

 

Can't see platooning Seager vs. just letting a young superstar try to improve at it. Same kinda goes for Pederson (without the super part).

 

Grandal was good vs both hands last year, despite a crappy BA.

 

Could've easily gotten a platoon partner for Gonzalez, though. And I had no idea Turner had such drastic reverse splits.

 

They had the ghost of Franklin Gutierrez and Slur Hernandez as 2/3rds of their OF against a LHP on Tuesday. Toss in Gonzalez being platoon worthy and Seager being not so superstar-ish against LHP, they are not good. Just because your roster construction makes it hard to make your lineup less exploitable doesn't make it any less worthy of mockery when they don't do it.

[David]

 

Well, maybe a little surprised.

 

 

More seriously, this move is delightful to me for some reason. Basically taunting the Dodgers for not fixing their ability to hit LHP.

 

Well, they did get Forsythe.

 

Can't see platooning Seager vs. just letting a young superstar try to improve at it. Same kinda goes for Pederson (without the super part).

 

Grandal was good vs both hands last year, despite a crappy BA.

 

Could've easily gotten a platoon partner for Gonzalez, though. And I had no idea Turner had such drastic reverse splits.

 

They had the ghost of Franklin Gutierrez and Slur Hernandez as 2/3rds of their OF against a LHP on Tuesday. Toss in Gonzalez being platoon worthy and Seager being not so superstar-ish against LHP, they are not good. Just because your roster construction makes it hard to make your lineup less exploitable doesn't make it any less worthy of mockery when they don't do it.

 

Yeah, I mean...that's bizarre. It shouldn't be hard to find a lefty mashing corner OFer or 1B.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

The Cubs aren't suddenly surprised to find out LA struggles against the Dodgers.

 

Well, maybe a little surprised.

 

 

More seriously, this move is delightful to me for some reason. Basically taunting the Dodgers for not fixing their ability to hit LHP.

 

Yep. I love this move because of the taunting. And I love that we are taunting them this early in the season, just to be dicks. We are just letting them know: "We can do this to you. I don't care what ZiPS or anything else says, you just aren't on our level." It's what was so great about our team last year. We can win in any fashion, be it playing small ball, playing long ball, with our defense, with our starting pitching, our bullpen, against lefties, against righties, it didn't matter. And the same applies this year. And we are letting them know that nothing's changed. We can choose how we want to beat them. And there's nothing they can do about it.

[jersey cubs fan]

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[imb]

I really want to be clicking for that Boston series.

[Cubswin11]

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Don't really get the point of this other than Arrieta picks up an extra day of rest that he lost with moving him and Lester around last time. Does Pitt or Boston have some crazy LHP/RHP splits?

[jersey cubs fan]

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Don't really get the point of this other than Arrieta picks up an extra day of rest that he lost with moving him and Lester around last time. Does Pitt or Boston have some crazy LHP/RHP splits?

 

I think the point is they will take the opportunity to give guys extra rest from time to time throughout the season. If they can do it by matching up Lester against a team that can't hit LHP, great. But otherwise it's just regularly scheduled rest for individuals while keeping other guys on normal rest.