NL Central: Reds, Pirates and others

[Cubswin11]

Corbin Burnes' struggles right now are super interesting. I'm generally an xFIP guy, and by xFIP he's actually been pretty good. However, 58% of his fly balls have left the yard so far. That's insanity. John Lackey's last year when we all hated him was 18%. Like there's clearly bad luck at play here, but even over a small sample I didn't think 58% could happen. Like it can't *just* be bad luck at this point. Is he tipping pitches?

He’s giving up horsefeathering bombs and a ton of hard contact, he might just suck as a starter and doesn’t have the pitch mix for it and should move back to being a 2 pitch relief pitcher.

[champaignchris]

Joey Votto popped up to the first baseman for the first time in his Major League career tonight. 13 years and 7,000-ish at bats. That’s bizarre.

[Regular Show]

Joey Votto popped up to the first baseman for the first time in his Major League career tonight. 13 years and 7,000-ish at bats. That’s bizarre.

 

I don't think bizarre is strong enough in this context.

 

We need a better adjective lol. It's horsefeathering incredible.

[We Got The Whole 9]

I feel like it will take less than 1000 for him to do it again

[Cubswin11]

We are back to having the best odds to win the division and make playoffs on fangraphs

[Derwood]

We are back to having the best odds to win the division and make playoffs on fangraphs

 

Brewers are 12-7 with a -2 run differential. That seems sustainable

[The_Achiever]

We are back to having the best odds to win the division and make playoffs on fangraphs

 

Brewers are 12-7 with a -2 run differential. That seems sustainable

 

They have pixie dust/devil magic going on. I expect it to continue as long as Yelich & Cain are in Brewers uniforms.

[champaignchris]

We are back to having the best odds to win the division and make playoffs on fangraphs

 

Brewers are 12-7 with a -2 run differential. That seems sustainable

 

They have pixie dust/devil magic going on. I expect it to continue as long as Yelich & Cain are in Brewers uniforms.

 

Outside of Hader, their pitching staff is horrible.

[The_Achiever]

 

Brewers are 12-7 with a -2 run differential. That seems sustainable

 

They have pixie dust/devil magic going on. I expect it to continue as long as Yelich & Cain are in Brewers uniforms.

 

Outside of Hader, their pitching staff is horrible.

 

That's where the pixie dust comes in. They went pretty far with that bad pitching staff last year.

[HawkeTrackler]

We are back to having the best odds to win the division and make playoffs on fangraphs

 

Brewers are 12-7 with a -2 run differential. That seems sustainable

 

God's Favorite Team

[champaignchris]

 

They have pixie dust/devil magic going on. I expect it to continue as long as Yelich & Cain are in Brewers uniforms.

 

Outside of Hader, their pitching staff is horrible.

 

That's where the pixie dust comes in. They went pretty far with that bad pitching staff last year.

 

Cedeno, Gonzalez, Knebel, Miley and Soria were all on that pitching staff last year when they made their big run to win the division at the end. They and maybe Peralta too are either hurt or gone now.

[Regular Show]

Joey Votto popped up to the first baseman for the first time in his Major League career tonight. 13 years and 7,000-ish at bats. That’s bizarre.

 

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[d_money]

Joey Votto popped up to the first baseman for the first time in his Major League career tonight. 13 years and 7,000-ish at bats. That’s bizarre.

 

I don't think bizarre is strong enough in this context.

 

We need a better adjective lol. It's horsefeathering incredible.

It’s all downhill for Joey V’s career from here on out. Clearly he’s declining.

[jersey cubs fan]

[squally1313]

File this (actually really good) article under our file for Cervelli Hate

 

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/who-framed-victor-caratini/

[Sammy Sofa]

Also another great one for the case for Robot Umps.

[Cubswin11]

The Brewers signed Gio Gonzalez, he’s probably their best starting pitcher.

[UMFan83]

The vaunted Cardinals are currently much more vaunted than the Vaunted Brewers^TM

[Forgotmyoldlogin]

The Brewers signed Gio Gonzalez, he’s probably their best starting pitcher.

Am I hallucinating or did this all happen before?

[Brian]

they traded for him last year. He also just signed with the Yankees a couple of weeks ago but was recently released.

[Cubswin11]

[OleMissCub]

Is Yelich being fed signs at Miller or something? His H/R splits are astonishing.

 

13 HR, 1.811 OPS at home

1 HR, .766 on road

[jersey cubs fan]

Is Yelich being fed signs at Miller or something? His H/R splits are astonishing.

 

13 HR, 1.811 OPS at home

1 HR, .766 on road

 

[Sammy Sofa]

Is Yelich being fed signs

 

Now all I can picture is this:

 

[OleMissCub]

Is Yelich being fed signs at Miller or something? His H/R splits are astonishing.

 

13 HR, 1.811 OPS at home

1 HR, .766 on road

 

 

Indeed, that's such a chasm that it should certainly raise suspicions. That K% is certainly intriguing.