Cubs sign Xavier Cedeno

[Cubswin11]

Good loogy, means Duensing is likely gone. So yay for moves making us better!

 

 

Edit:

 

Minor league deal it appears, so there’s an open 40-man spot currently

 

[Deeg]

A pure LOOGY, a dying breed. And judging by his precipitous velocity dropoff the past three seasons, possibly a dying arm too.

[Cubswin11]

A pure LOOGY, a dying breed. And judging by his precipitous velocity dropoff the past three seasons, possibly a dying arm too.

Don’t think he had a velo drop last year? He went from throwing a 4-seam FB to a cutter and that historically for him has been 2-3 mph below the 4-seam and he was around his career average on velo with the cutter and curve last year (he’s literally a 2 pitch, pitcher with the cutter and curve now he threw them 99% of the time last year). Also his cutter is pretty good.

 

[Deeg]

The velocity drop is like for like, not a function of the fact that he dropped the four seamer. Cutter velocity:

 

2014: 90.2

2016: 88.2

2018: 86.6

[Cubswin11]

The velocity drop is like for like, not a function of the fact that he dropped the four seamer. Cutter velocity:

 

2014: 90.2

2016: 88.2

2018: 86.6

Missed that. I didn’t look back 4 years. I guess at least the Cutter was elite last year. Which is promising. He seems fine as a loogy if he’s treated as such. Joe will probably give him a chance to close out a game in early April though vs only RHB and it will go to horsefeathers.

[Cubswin11]

Sounds like he’s either on his way back up (for Randy I’d suspect) or has been cut

 

 

[David]

The pitching plan seems to be to bore lineups into submission

 

These guys talked about power pitching way back when they were hired...This year’s pitching seems less that than ever even if Darvish ends up good to go

 

 

Did they, though? I wouldn't be surprised if they did, but I don't recall that being one of their big talking points early on.

[Cubswin11]

The pitching plan seems to be to bore lineups into submission

 

These guys talked about power pitching way back when they were hired...This year’s pitching seems less that than ever even if Darvish ends up good to go

 

 

Did they, though? I wouldn't be surprised if they did, but I don't recall that being one of their big talking points early on.

Yeah I don’t remember that at all and their actions certainly haven’t really backed it.

[We Got The Whole 9]

The pitching plan seems to be to bore lineups into submission

 

These guys talked about power pitching way back when they were hired...This year’s pitching seems less that than ever even if Darvish ends up good to go

 

 

Did they, though? I wouldn't be surprised if they did, but I don't recall that being one of their big talking points early on.

Yeah I don’t remember that at all and their actions certainly haven’t really backed it.

Hey Underwood is knocking on the door, man