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Why do you goobers act like "we'll just bullpen it" is some trump card lmao. If the starter gives up 5 runs in three innings, it's not gonna make much of a difference how good our bullpen might be.

 

We have the best record in the NL. It's worked all season. Why won't it work in the playoffs?

 

I'm not saying this is the case, but what if we were playing above our heads and now over the next few months there is a regression and then come the playoffs we are actually more like the fourth best team?

 

I assume this isn't the case. But just wondering.

We aren’t playing over our heads. Our win% right now pretty much matches where the projections have us

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Hendricks is back to his normal self, Q is mostly fine and Yu is going to be back. So yeah they should be mostly fine and worked out.

 

Hendricks: 4.09 ERA in his last four games. Is that his “normal self”?

 

Darvish being back isn’t a good thing if he still sucks.

 

Quintana has been vaguely alright but still average at best.

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Why do you goobers act like "we'll just bullpen it" is some trump card lmao. If the starter gives up 5 runs in three innings, it's not gonna make much of a difference how good our bullpen might be.

 

It does repeatedly crack me up how we have people talking here like the problem with the Cubs' starters has been that they melt down 4-5 innings into their starts. The starting rotation is legit horsefeathering terrible, and they act like it's going to just somehow work itself out in less than 2 months.

Hendricks is back to his normal self, Q is mostly fine and Yu is going to be back. So yeah they should be mostly fine and worked out.

 

Quintana is the same unimpressive pitcher he's been all year (he was actually at his worst in July, but one start in August means he's suddenly figured it out, I guess), Darvish is in limbo, and Hendricks is sometimes good Hendricks. To just rattle all of that off like it's going to fall into place, or they'll be bailed out by a heavily worked bullpen, when it's already August 5th is more than a tad presumptive.

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What happened to the playoffs being a crapshoot, just get in and see what happens?

 

Sure, but it's always better to not actually be throwing literal crap.

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I may be having a little fun going over the top with the doom boner I haven’t been able to break out in years, but the denialism about how bad the starting pitching is gets to be pretty hilarious.

 

Yeah, most of this for me is just in the moment venting over a really horsefeathering dumb series/game, but the flipside of that crossed over long ago into, "it's just a little airborne; it's still good!"-hilarity.

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I may be having a little fun going over the top with the doom boner I haven’t been able to break out in years, but the denialism about how bad the starting pitching is gets to be pretty hilarious.

 

No one is denying that it has been bad. It has. It has signs of being better. Hendricks has a 3.07 FIP in 7 starts since the start of July. He's pretty much back to being himself. Quintana has been decent since around mid-May. Chatwood is no longer in the rotation. It sounds like Darvish might be expected back. And these guys have track records of being better than they have to this point.

 

And, despite how bad it's been -- BAD -- the Cubs still have the best record in the NL. It's not that much of a worry.

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I may be having a little fun going over the top with the doom boner I haven’t been able to break out in years, but the denialism about how bad the starting pitching is gets to be pretty hilarious.

It is and has been bad but Hendricks has looked really like his old self for quite a few starts now so idk what to tell you about there but he looks encouraging, Q is solid and has been mostly solid all year and Darvish seems well on his way back, Lester was due for major regression and hopefully that get sorted out soon and he turns it back around and Hamels is doing enough interesting things outside of that stupid park in Texas to think he’s going to be good.

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