4.29 Hendricks getting knocked around

[CubinNY]

Not good.

[muntjack]

2 more hits for Rivas. He'll probably sit for a week.

[CubinNY]

Sucky sucks suck. Hendricks throwing BP

[UMFan83]

And this is the one guy we actually managed to extend

[Irrelevant Dude]

I love Kyle and appreciate everything he has done for the Cubs, but I think he is toast.

[Derwood]

His spiked HR totals the last couple of years is deeply concerning

[champaignchris]

Leiter out of the pen. Don’t think Miley or Mills are ready yet. Killian coming up?

[Bertz]

Newcomb that inning threw 24 pitches that inning, 17 cutters. Including 14 of the first 17 pitches. Clearly that's the pitch Hottovy is eying for him to work on.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Leiter out of the pen. Don’t think Miley or Mills are ready yet. Killian coming up?

 

Thompson relieved Leiter's last start so my money would be on trying to get 4-5 out of him before Kilian. But Kilian's last start did line up with Leiter's so it's not impossible.

[Bertz]

Leiter out of the pen. Don’t think Miley or Mills are ready yet. Killian coming up?

 

Thompson relieved Leiter's last start so my money would be on trying to get 4-5 out of him before Kilian. But Kilian's last start did line up with Leiter's so it's not impossible.

 

With off days Monday and Thursday my guess is they're just skipping the #5 spot this go around. From there I believe Miley's set for a rehab start, maybe they think he only needs one?

[17 Seconds]

this organization is so far from competing

[UMFan83]

Did we win?

[ChiCubsFan]

Guess we aren’t going to be able to trade Kyle for anything good huh?

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Last 2 games we got 1 run each.

-Stole a run on a run down right before the tag.

-Scored on a wild pitch.

 

Impressive

[Ding Dong Johnson]

waves and waves

[soccer10k]

Did we win?

 

[Derwood]

Did we win?

 

We managed to offset half of that 20 run win

[Backtobanks]

Guess we aren’t going to be able to trade Kyle for anything good huh?

 

If the FO office would have admitted that we were rebuilding instead of retooling, we could have gotten something pretty good for him during the off season.

[Bertz]

Guess we aren’t going to be able to trade Kyle for anything good huh?

 

If the FO office would have admitted that we were rebuilding instead of retooling, we could have gotten something pretty good for him during the off season.

 

Well this is just made up nonsense, he was a mess last year.

 

Kyle had two problems last year: he basically stopped being able to miss bats, and while he still was a soft contact guy a higher proportion of the hard contact he did allow was in the air. Combine those two factors and he got donged into oblivion.

 

This year he's missing bats again, but his groundball rate is evaporating and he's giving up hard contact at a little more than a league average rate. IMO the former is more encouraging than the latter is discouraging, but not by a lot and I was already really worried about him coming into the year.

[UMFan83]

The Cubs are 2-8 in their last 10 games with a RD of -1

 

That that was a lot cooler when it was 2-7 with a RD of +9

[Backtobanks]

Guess we aren’t going to be able to trade Kyle for anything good huh?

 

If the FO office would have admitted that we were rebuilding instead of retooling, we could have gotten something pretty good for him during the off season.

 

Well this is just made up nonsense, he was a mess last year.

 

Kyle had two problems last year: he basically stopped being able to miss bats, and while he still was a soft contact guy a higher proportion of the hard contact he did allow was in the air. Combine those two factors and he got donged into oblivion.

 

This year he's missing bats again, but his groundball rate is evaporating and he's giving up hard contact at a little more than a league average rate. IMO the former is more encouraging than the latter is discouraging, but not by a lot and I was already really worried about him coming into the year.

 

With all of the teams needing pitching help and signing and/or trading for pitchers with arm problems and lesser success, I can't believe someone wouldn't have traded for him.

[Bertz]

 

If the FO office would have admitted that we were rebuilding instead of retooling, we could have gotten something pretty good for him during the off season.

 

Well this is just made up nonsense, he was a mess last year.

 

Kyle had two problems last year: he basically stopped being able to miss bats, and while he still was a soft contact guy a higher proportion of the hard contact he did allow was in the air. Combine those two factors and he got donged into oblivion.

 

This year he's missing bats again, but his groundball rate is evaporating and he's giving up hard contact at a little more than a league average rate. IMO the former is more encouraging than the latter is discouraging, but not by a lot and I was already really worried about him coming into the year.

 

With all of the teams needing pitching help and signing and/or trading for pitchers with arm problems and lesser success, I can't believe someone wouldn't have traded for him.

 

Taking a flyer on him because he can at least give innings and giving up something good for him are two very different things

[Backtobanks]

 

Well this is just made up nonsense, he was a mess last year.

 

Kyle had two problems last year: he basically stopped being able to miss bats, and while he still was a soft contact guy a higher proportion of the hard contact he did allow was in the air. Combine those two factors and he got donged into oblivion.

 

This year he's missing bats again, but his groundball rate is evaporating and he's giving up hard contact at a little more than a league average rate. IMO the former is more encouraging than the latter is discouraging, but not by a lot and I was already really worried about him coming into the year.

 

With all of the teams needing pitching help and signing and/or trading for pitchers with arm problems and lesser success, I can't believe someone wouldn't have traded for him.

 

Taking a flyer on him because he can at least give innings and giving up something good for him are two very different things

 

I think a team needing a #4 starter would have given us something "pretty good" (which is what I said). Now we're stuck with him and Heyward on the books for next year.