7/6/18 Reds (Mahle) @ CLUBES (Montgomery) 1:20 CST NBC Sports Chicago/MLBN

[Bertz]

It's crazy how spoiled I am by our defense. Zobrist bobbled that DP ball just a tiny bit, and in my head I was still like "Jeez Javy wouldn't have done that!"

[Cubswin11]

 

He was the same middling guy in June that he was in April. He had a bit of a rebound in May. A bit.

He gave up 3 or less runs in every June start but 1 (4runs) And had a lower era in June than your precious Verlander.

 

It's telling that you're hanging this all on the bold multiple times now, because that's literally all he has going for him in terms of arguing that he's figuring it out. His meh June ERA was a whopping .01 lower than Verlander's. Almost everything else has been consistently mediocre all season.

I’m not arguing Q has been that good or that I’m not expecting more. Just that he hasn’t been “that” bad that we need to be in “OMG rotation is doomed and we need starters at the deadline.” There’s reasonable belief that him and Hendricks will get better sooner than later and I just used Verlander as an example since he’s held in some regard here that he’s always great and that’s just not the case. These guys go through weird/bad stretches

[Cubswin11]

Still thinking that the CLUBES factor is gonna prevail today.

I concur

[PackLandVA]

He gave up 3 or less runs in every June start but 1 (4runs) And had a lower era in June than your precious Verlander.

 

It's telling that you're hanging this all on the bold multiple times now, because that's literally all he has going for him in terms of arguing that he's figuring it out. His meh June ERA was a whopping .01 lower than Verlander's. Almost everything else has been consistently mediocre all season.

I’m not arguing Q has been that good or that I’m not expecting more. Just that he hasn’t been “that” bad that we need to be in “OMG rotation is doomed and we need starters at the deadline.” There’s reasonable belief that him and Hendricks will get better sooner than later and I just used Verlander as an example since he’s held in some regard here that he’s always great and that’s just not the case. These guys go through weird/bad stretches

 

 

 

Not to continue the derailment of the game thread, but when the Cubs got Q, wasn’t he statistically a Top 10-15 starting pitcher in all of baseball. Has he even been close to that for a significant period of start.... yet?

[Cubswin11]

 

It's telling that you're hanging this all on the bold multiple times now, because that's literally all he has going for him in terms of arguing that he's figuring it out. His meh June ERA was a whopping .01 lower than Verlander's. Almost everything else has been consistently mediocre all season.

I’m not arguing Q has been that good or that I’m not expecting more. Just that he hasn’t been “that” bad that we need to be in “OMG rotation is doomed and we need starters at the deadline.” There’s reasonable belief that him and Hendricks will get better sooner than later and I just used Verlander as an example since he’s held in some regard here that he’s always great and that’s just not the case. These guys go through weird/bad stretches

 

 

 

Not to continue the derailment of the game thread, but when the Cubs got Q, wasn’t he statistically a Top 10-15 starting pitcher in all of baseball. Has he even been close to that for a significant period of start.... yet?

Think he was even close to top 5 by WAR metics going back to like 2014 or so. He had a ~2 era for us after the trade last year or something like that.

[Bertz]

 

It's telling that you're hanging this all on the bold multiple times now, because that's literally all he has going for him in terms of arguing that he's figuring it out. His meh June ERA was a whopping .01 lower than Verlander's. Almost everything else has been consistently mediocre all season.

I’m not arguing Q has been that good or that I’m not expecting more. Just that he hasn’t been “that” bad that we need to be in “OMG rotation is doomed and we need starters at the deadline.” There’s reasonable belief that him and Hendricks will get better sooner than later and I just used Verlander as an example since he’s held in some regard here that he’s always great and that’s just not the case. These guys go through weird/bad stretches

 

 

 

Not to continue the derailment of the game thread, but when the Cubs got Q, wasn’t he statistically a Top 10-15 starting pitcher in all of baseball. Has he even been close to that for a significant period of start.... yet?

 

Yes. He was fantastic with us last year pretty much from the jump.

[UMFan83]

Come on Zo....no DPs please

[Schwarber Fan]

Rizzo about to go on a power surge. Please pound Raisel.

[gobigred]

any other day thats a homer

[Bertz]

Damn, neutral wind and that's out.

 

Let's ignore that the Reds would have like 6 more runs in neutral conditions.

[CubinNY]

On another day...

[TMan92]

Just hit a single

[Schwarber Fan]

Iglesias made some bad pitches there.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

The run is nice but would’ve been nice if Zobrist took ball 4.

[TMan92]

Iglesias made some bad pitches there.

 

A ton and Willson missed all of them.

[TMan92]

Ferrell still in? I guess Joe doesn’t want to win today.

[TMan92]

Leadoff walk to Hamilton is exactly what we need.

[Bertz]

Wilson's been phenomenal since like the third week of the season.

 

I think if not for his monumental bed-horsefeathering against the Reds during that double header, he'd have won us all over by now.

[Schwarber Fan]

Iglesias is a lucky bastard.

[TMan92]

The RISP gods hate us again.

[Schwarber Fan]

Iglesias didn’t deserve that save.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

At least we took a great team like the Reds to the wire.

[UMFan83]

Man we crushed the horsefeathers out of Iglasias. Oh well.

[TMan92]

Prepare for a Brewer win with 5 runs scored on four hits.

[Sosa21MVP]

horsefeathers the Reds.