4/2/18 Cubs (Chatwood) @ Reds (Mahle) 3:10 PM CST NBC Sports Chicago

[17 Seconds]

starting the season in butt mode is such a buzzkill

[Schwarber Fan]

What a brutal two games. We'll see if they reschedule tomorrow's game to Wednesday. Either way, need the day off badly.

[Cubspcb]

Welp-- When does the Bears season start again? This sport is horrible at times.

[David]

Rogers trying to push this K total narrative for some stupid reason. They’re 14th in the league right now in K rate and were 11th last year. This is a stupid non-story if not for that stupid extra innings game.

 

 

 

[imb]

the only thing more exciting than two-straight shutout losses is looking at the game thread immediately following the second loss and seeing schwarber fan made the latest post.

[David]

What a brutal two games. We'll see if they reschedule tomorrow's game to Wednesday. Either way, need the day off badly.

 

the most aramis fan post that ever did aramis fan

[imb]

"logistics of the stat"

[Old Style]

This is not fun.

[ScrubMD]

Everything is bad forever. Things will only get worse until the darkness takes you.

[David]

in other news, david dejesus is still making me more aware than i've ever been of how ridiculously difficult live TV must be

[Regular Show]

I forgot we were facing the Reds. We'll be leaving town as the SuperCubs.

 

 

This is probably how Duke feels after seeing that shitshow of a game. Might have to wait for the SuperCubs to show up...

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Still have a chance for another .500 road series here. Just gotta get this next one, assuming it's not PPD.

[Perd]

It’s frustrating. Because it was easy to look at the schedule and envision a nice 5-1 start. But I’m actually encouraged. Schwarber and Russell both look good at the plate. Just need to get Willy and Rizzo going. And things will be fine.

[Cubswin11]

We're going to win 4 of the next 5 games, be at 6-4 for the home opener and this is all going to look silly and forgettable.

[Cubswin11]

Also, I know we all know the strikeout take by Rogers is dumb but another thing that makes it look dumb.... We rank 6th as a team in hard contact% and 19th in soft contact%. Way to results focused right now by Cubs twitter idiots, the process is mostly fine (obviously could use some refinement but the results are going to come).

[PackLandVA]

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[UMFan83]

It’s frustrating. Because it was easy to look at the schedule and envision a nice 5-1 start. But I’m actually encouraged. Schwarber and Russell both look good at the plate. Just need to get Willy and Rizzo going. And things will be fine.

 

Agreed. Especially encouraged by Schwarbers start. If this is the mega-Schwarber we hoped for, this offense is going to score a horsefeathers ton of runs

[We Got The Whole 9]

Also, I know we all know the strikeout take by Rogers is dumb but another thing that makes it look dumb.... We rank 6th as a team in hard contact% and 19th in soft contact%. Way to results focused right now by Cubs twitter idiots, the process is mostly fine (obviously could use some refinement but the results are going to come).

Since we are digging into those numbers I will point out that we are 1st in pull % and have the highest BABIP among the top 5 in that category at 280. I get it that we are hitting the ball hard and we want to summarily attribute that to bad luck but I think we must acknowledge that in this day of defensive shifts and more accurate than ever spray charts, we are playing into our opponents hands a bit.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Also, I know we all know the strikeout take by Rogers is dumb but another thing that makes it look dumb.... We rank 6th as a team in hard contact% and 19th in soft contact%. Way to results focused right now by Cubs twitter idiots, the process is mostly fine (obviously could use some refinement but the results are going to come).

Since we are digging into those numbers I will point out that we are 1st in pull % and have the highest BABIP among the top 5 in that category at 280. I get it that we are hitting the ball hard and we want to summarily attribute that to bad luck but I think we must acknowledge that in this day of defensive shifts and more accurate than ever spray charts, we are playing into our opponents hands a bit.

...if we have a high BABIP for similarly pull-heavy teams, then doesn't that kind of crap on your point?

[UMFan83]

Also, I know we all know the strikeout take by Rogers is dumb but another thing that makes it look dumb.... We rank 6th as a team in hard contact% and 19th in soft contact%. Way to results focused right now by Cubs twitter idiots, the process is mostly fine (obviously could use some refinement but the results are going to come).

Since we are digging into those numbers I will point out that we are 1st in pull % and have the highest BABIP among the top 5 in that category at 280. I get it that we are hitting the ball hard and we want to summarily attribute that to bad luck but I think we must acknowledge that in this day of defensive shifts and more accurate than ever spray charts, we are playing into our opponents hands a bit.

...if we have a high BABIP for similarly pull-heavy teams, then doesn't that kind of crap on your point?

 

BABIP is largely luck based so I think he’s implying that if we keep pulling the ball the offense will be even worse when that regresses

[Cubswin11]

Since we are digging into those numbers I will point out that we are 1st in pull % and have the highest BABIP among the top 5 in that category at 280. I get it that we are hitting the ball hard and we want to summarily attribute that to bad luck but I think we must acknowledge that in this day of defensive shifts and more accurate than ever spray charts, we are playing into our opponents hands a bit.

...if we have a high BABIP for similarly pull-heavy teams, then doesn't that kind of crap on your point?

 

BABIP is largely luck based so I think he’s implying that if we keep pulling the ball the offense will be even worse when that regresses

Maybe it’s because it’s a smaller profile of a batted ball so maybe the BABIPs typically skew lower but a .280 BABIP doesn’t seem like something that screams regression to me or would be unsustainable.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Also, I know we all know the strikeout take by Rogers is dumb but another thing that makes it look dumb.... We rank 6th as a team in hard contact% and 19th in soft contact%. Way to results focused right now by Cubs twitter idiots, the process is mostly fine (obviously could use some refinement but the results are going to come).

Since we are digging into those numbers I will point out that we are 1st in pull % and have the highest BABIP among the top 5 in that category at 280. I get it that we are hitting the ball hard and we want to summarily attribute that to bad luck but I think we must acknowledge that in this day of defensive shifts and more accurate than ever spray charts, we are playing into our opponents hands a bit.

...if we have a high BABIP for similarly pull-heavy teams, then doesn't that kind of crap on your point?

280 is nothing to write home about and would have been 28th in the league last year.

[Cubswin11]

Since we are digging into those numbers I will point out that we are 1st in pull % and have the highest BABIP among the top 5 in that category at 280. I get it that we are hitting the ball hard and we want to summarily attribute that to bad luck but I think we must acknowledge that in this day of defensive shifts and more accurate than ever spray charts, we are playing into our opponents hands a bit.

...if we have a high BABIP for similarly pull-heavy teams, then doesn't that kind of crap on your point?

280 is nothing to write home about and would have been 28th in the league last year.

Forget my post above, I misunderstood your point

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Jesse Rogers is an idiot and everyone of you need to stop retweeting him into my feed.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Also, I know we all know the strikeout take by Rogers is dumb but another thing that makes it look dumb.... We rank 6th as a team in hard contact% and 19th in soft contact%. Way to results focused right now by Cubs twitter idiots, the process is mostly fine (obviously could use some refinement but the results are going to come).

Since we are digging into those numbers I will point out that we are 1st in pull % and have the highest BABIP among the top 5 in that category at 280. I get it that we are hitting the ball hard and we want to summarily attribute that to bad luck but I think we must acknowledge that in this day of defensive shifts and more accurate than ever spray charts, we are playing into our opponents hands a bit.

 

This is the same nonsense you spouted ad nauseam last year. We told you repeatedly that you were digging too deep into things and trying to make stats say things that they weren't capable of saying. And then the Cubs BABIP'd .328 in the second half last year, completely debunking your notions.

 

And now you're ready to dive back in after a 5 game sample?

 

I mean, seriously, you are trying to take Pull% from 4 games and deducing some Big Theory about our organizational philosophies.