4/30 World Champs (Hendricks) v. Red Sox (Rodriguez) 7:05, ESPN

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Don't forget Marco Hernandez was out at first.

 

It really shouldn't have been an issue though.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Maaaan our D has made some awful awful plays this first month.

[Cubswin11]

Overall Pedro was pretty good there though. All things considered. Don't like using him as a "fireman" guy and think he should be starting innings ideally as he needs some margin for error. But he got K, BB, weak grounder and weak grounder.

[OleMissCub]

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[Transmogrified Tiger]

kinda peeved at Rizzo rn

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Well this all went to horsefeathers in a hurry.

[Cubswin11]

kinda peeved at Rizzo rn

And Joe, Pedro should've started that inning

[sneakypower]

pretty dumb inning

[Schwarber Fan]

Not sure how anyone here thinks Hernandez could've been called out on that play, it was literally a tie.

[mikeyt34]

Bullpen's been solid most of the year. Can't win em' all.

[Cubswin11]

Not sure how anyone here thinks Hernandez could've been called out on that play, it was literally a tie.

Rizzo could've hustled a little more fielding that and taken it himself and/or Uehara should've had better footwork/gotten there faster and it wouldn't have been particularly close

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Not sure how anyone here thinks Hernandez could've been called out on that play, it was literally a tie.

 

In a mathematic sense a tie isn't possible, and Uehara having a more direct step to the base even visually gives the impression of beating Hernandez to the base, but the umpire is trained by experience to be looking for a guy to potentially be safe if a pitcher has to take that many steps after catching the flip.

 

In any case, it shouldn't have mattered because Rizzo got lazy feet in multiple ways on that play.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

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[gobigred]

Good news is our division looks to be very very weak...but man what a mediocre month

[bcl412]

eh, we've played pretty mediocre baseball and are in first place. Wake me up when the domination starts.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

The Phillies next, right? We need a Dong Party to get our mojo back.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

in the years we got the two "lesser" first rounders from the tank years, almora and happ, we were super interested in correa and benintendi

 

lol theo/mcleod are kinda good

 

I was watching the Red Sox feed online the other day. And their announcers were talking about Benintendi. And they said they'd talked to his dad, who was in town, and he said the Cubs had told them before the draft that they were going to take him if he were still around at 9.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

in the years we got the two "lesser" first rounders from the tank years, almora and happ, we were super interested in correa and benintendi

 

lol theo/mcleod are kinda good

 

I was watching the Red Sox feed online the other day. And their announcers were talking about Benintendi. And they said they'd talked to his dad, who was in town, and he said the Cubs had told them before the draft that they were going to take him if he were still around at 9.

 

Theo, Jed and Jason absolutely loved Benintendi, probably on Schwarber-levels pre-draft. They saw him at Fayetteville like 3 different weekends, which is unheard of when you're picking that "low."

[Cubswin11]

in the years we got the two "lesser" first rounders from the tank years, almora and happ, we were super interested in correa and benintendi

 

lol theo/mcleod are kinda good

 

I was watching the Red Sox feed online the other day. And their announcers were talking about Benintendi. And they said they'd talked to his dad, who was in town, and he said the Cubs had told them before the draft that they were going to take him if he were still around at 9.

I remember being heavily linked to him for that draft, not as much as the broadcasts have talked about. But remember it as part of the horsefeathers pitchers philosophy fully resonating with me at the time, and with most on the board, and just taking the best college hitter and he seemed to be the guy the FO most loved (wouldn't doubt if they would have taken him over even Swanson, Bregman and Rodgers if all were available with the pick). Happ doesn't look to be a bad consolation prize with where we were picking but man having Benintendi would be sweet.

Edited May 1, 2017 by Cubswin11

[Cubswin11]

in the years we got the two "lesser" first rounders from the tank years, almora and happ, we were super interested in correa and benintendi

 

lol theo/mcleod are kinda good

 

I was watching the Red Sox feed online the other day. And their announcers were talking about Benintendi. And they said they'd talked to his dad, who was in town, and he said the Cubs had told them before the draft that they were going to take him if he were still around at 9.

 

Theo, Jed and Jason absolutely loved Benintendi, probably on Schwarber-levels pre-draft. They saw him at Fayetteville like 3 different weekends, which is unheard of when you're picking that "low."

Makes you wonder if there was a Eckstein123 situation going on in Boston at the time

[Aaron_Kennelly]

in the years we got the two "lesser" first rounders from the tank years, almora and happ, we were super interested in correa and benintendi

 

lol theo/mcleod are kinda good

 

I was watching the Red Sox feed online the other day. And their announcers were talking about Benintendi. And they said they'd talked to his dad, who was in town, and he said the Cubs had told them before the draft that they were going to take him if he were still around at 9.

 

Theo, Jed and Jason absolutely loved Benintendi, probably on Schwarber-levels pre-draft. They saw him at Fayetteville like 3 different weekends, which is unheard of when you're picking that "low."

 

I loved him, too. And I don't really follow college prospects that much. But I hopped on the bandwagon after hearing that we liked him. I'm still so sad about missing out on him.

[David]

I feel like if this FO had the number one pick every year they'd screw it up maybe 1 out of 10 times

[Cubswin11]

A few thoughts on Hendricks..... if we are going to assume it's part of a plan for these guys to be throwing softer right now could that explain the increase in walks? A guy who was so precise last year altering even little things to take a tick of velo off could be affecting his ability to locate or if they told him to take some velo off maybe being a little more wild is part of the plan? If he's throwing mid-80s he knows he can't be in the zone as much as those are easier velocities to hit so he's attempting to be a little more wild to induce chasing? Again just trying to look at it from a pitchers are fine, the drop in velo is part of a plan and not all of them are dying point of view.

[Gilby]

I'm surprised at how often people have brought up the possibility of the velocity drop being intentional. There's simply no way Hendricks is intentionally maxing out at 85 mph against major league lineups and Arrieta isn't choosing to coast through the regular season of a contract year.

 

Now, there might be something to the fact of them not throwing a lot in spring training causing some of this. But they most certainly aren't choosing to throw softer.