7/16 Cubs (Quintana) @ Orioles (Jimenez) 12:35 CT ABC7/670

[cubsclapp]

Q's start was worth 0.6 fWAR. He's up to 6th on the team and one more start like that puts him 3rd lol.

 

Yeah, he's 11th in fWAR now. Not bad for a "No. 3" starter having a "down" year.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

He was fantastic today. What a huge addition.

[ScrubMD]

I wonder how much of his success today is from switching to the NL? #funnyjoke

 

Also, this feels like the part of the movie where the montage kicks in and they keep showing the standings with the wins piling up.

[Brian]

Also, this feels like the part of the movie where the montage kicks in and they keep showing the standings with the wins piling up.

 

hopefully it's the length of the one from Moneyball.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Jose, I think I love you

 

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[Guancous]

i'm calling a rizz dong

[Brian707]

The Cubs will over take the Brewers by the end of the series in Milwaukee at the the end of July and not look back.

[Derwood]

This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but I'd prefer to see Montgomery moved back into the pen and Lackey hold onto the 5th SP slot.

 

Lackey has mostly been doing what he's done in recent years, with the exception of his HR/FB suddenly skyrocketing to more than double his career figure. His velocity is down a bit, so sure -- maybe this is the end of the line. But it's only down about 1 mph, so I'm more inclined to believe that he's just having some bad luck.

 

But it's not like Mongtomery is pitching significantly better. Even with his overall stats being padded due to his time in relief, xFIP and SIERA see them as virtually the same. And if they're virtually the same, I'd rather keep the guy who can be a solid left-handed reliever in that role.

 

Here's our current options.

 

Lackey is going to be overrated and Montgomery is going to be underrated by metrics that try to normalize batted ball profiles. Montgomery is very hard to square up and gets a lot of groundballs, while Lackey is a strike thrower who has lost a tick and is now in an environment where more strikes than ever end up at or over the fence. Montgomery isn't perfect, and he hasn't seized the starting chance like I hoped he might, but he is still easily the 5th best SP we have.

 

 

I'd really like Montgomery to get out of the fifth more consistently before I'm comfortable giving him a rotation spot

[CoolHandLuke]

Q's start was worth 0.6 fWAR. He's up to 6th on the team and one more start like that puts him 3rd lol.

 

There's also probably a sort of decent chance that in terms of overall WAR we just won the trade today, right?

[David]

Q's start was worth 0.6 fWAR. He's up to 6th on the team and one more start like that puts him 3rd lol.

 

There's also probably a sort of decent chance that in terms of overall WAR we just won the trade today, right?

 

let's say eloy (i love eloy i'm not rooting for this) ends up jorge soler and cease ends up like, i dunno, corey black. not all that implausible.

 

then lol yes.