7/26 - Diamondbacks (Godley) @ Cubs (Chatwalk) 1:20 NBCSC & MLBN

[TMan92]

 

Yeah, it's not like he's won an MVP or anything.

 

2016 Bryant wasn’t hurt and unable to hit anything hard

Broke Bryant had the highest wRC+ on the team still

 

He was really damn good before he got hit in the head and hurt his shoulder

[Andy]

Chatwood horsefeathering sucks and it's his fault Duensing was trotted out there.

[Derwood]

Duensing in a high leverage situation was perhaps a poor choice

[TMan92]

Nice when the two worst pitchers on the team make an appearance in the same inning.

[Schwarber Fan]

Rough series. Hopefully St. Louis remembers they suck.

[dfnowak]

Chatwood sucks

Awful send him away for the year hope he figured it out in the offseason

He can take Duensing with him

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Chatwood could have done that

 

Not true, would’ve thrown a ball.

[We Got The Whole 9]

When you go from a pitcher with a 8+ BB9 to one with a 7 BB9

[BigSlick]

Yeah Duensing doesn’t belong on a major league roster

[Flames24Rulz]

the other team can hit dongs. why can't we hit dongs anymore?

[Cubswin11]

 

2016 Bryant wasn’t hurt and unable to hit anything hard

Broke Bryant had the highest wRC+ on the team still

 

He was really damn good before he got hit in the head and hurt his shoulder

June is the only month he didn’t have a wRC+ over 117 (89) and he was still slashing .267/.333/.373 that month. So bad Kris is still basically Almora.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

There's no excuse for Duensing even being on this roster, let alone pitching in a 1-run game.

[dfnowak]

When you can't hit or pitch, not going to win many games...

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Nick Ahmed now has more homers than everyone on the Cubs besides Javy and Schwarber.

[David]

For the life of me, I will never understand baseball things like Nick Ahmed, Billy Hamilton, that one scrub who kept killing us from the Brewers a couple years ago, etc.

[UMFan83]

There's a decent chance this was Chatwood's last start as a Cub. That's the only thing leaving me somewhat zen about this.

 

 

Yeah Maddon and Theo have been been harping on how badly the lack of deep starts has hurt the Cubs and needs to change.

[Perd]

Worst good team ever.

[soccer10k]

Duensing in any situation was perhaps a poor choice

 

Fixed.

[Andy]

Duensing in a high leverage situation was perhaps a poor choice

It was, but if Chatwood wasn't terrible he wouldn't create high-leverage situations where a reliever was needed in the fifth freaking inning every start.

[TMan92]

Broke Bryant had the highest wRC+ on the team still

 

He was really damn good before he got hit in the head and hurt his shoulder

June is the only month he didn’t have a wRC+ over 117 (89) and he was still slashing .267/.333/.373 that month. So bad Kris is still basically Almora.

 

I love Kris Bryant. The guy is hurt. An injured guy was not currently our second best hitter to have in the lineup.

[Cubswin11]

The Brian Duensing (even though it was no money) is the worst FA signing of Theo’s career. It was dumb and useless at the time and is even dumber now that he’s costing us games.

[squally1313]

This has been an incredibly poorly managed series.

[Cubswin11]

 

He was really damn good before he got hit in the head and hurt his shoulder

June is the only month he didn’t have a wRC+ over 117 (89) and he was still slashing .267/.333/.373 that month. So bad Kris is still basically Almora.

 

I love Kris Bryant. The guy is hurt. An injured guy was not currently our second best hitter to have in the lineup.

He was hitting .250/.360/.425 in the month he got hurt for a 132 wRC+.

[squally1313]

How do you guys think Almora will screw up this inning.

[dfnowak]

Theo's last offseason hasn't worked out that well so far:

 

1. Signed Darvish - not good so far, but still TBD

2. Signed Walkwood - bad

3. Resigned Duensing - bad

4. Signed Morrow - good, but hurt too often

5. Signed Cishek - good so far

6. Signed Smyly - TBD