Jed Speak

[Cubswin11]

The crazy amount of groundballs is definitely a red flag, but I think a less deep shade of red than an equivalent plate discipline or contact deficiency.

 

It can and often is a canary in the coal mine that something is wrong. Like I remember Starlin's last year here he ran a 60+% GB rate for a month or so, BABIP'd his way to solid production, and then cratered the rest of the way.

 

But at the same time, I believe it's been empirically shown that GB rate is more on the pitchers than the hitters. I don't know if the Cubs' slate of opposing pitchers has been exceptionally GB heavy, but it's easily possible in only 11 games.

 

You would assume the Rockies would try to build their rotation with a bunch of GB pitchers. But then again, it's the Rockies, so who knows.

 

I forget if they tried this more explicitly in the past, but I think the un-virtuous cycle is that the pitches that lead to ground balls move less in Coors and therefore more of them become barrels into the gap/over the fence.

Didn’t they try this in like 2018 or so when they spent like $150 mil on the bullpen with ground ball type guys. Davis, McGee, Shaw and Oh?

[UMFan83]

Jed's on the score.

 

 

 

Didnt see a tweet on this but he talked a little about Contreras but he danced around the topic.

 

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[Backtobanks]

Jed's on the score.

 

 

 

Didnt see a tweet on this but he talked a little about Contreras but he danced around the topic.

 

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What a crock of BS. If you want to get back to competing for the WS every year, you don't put a below-replacement level roster together for 2 1/2 years while keeping one eye on the future and hoping that at least 4-5 prospects become ML stars and your owner will decide to loosen the purse strings.

[sneakypower]

(The goal is) to get back to competing for a World Series every year.