6/25 STL just scored 2 runs on back-to-back popups

[Andy]

I'm sure it's not actually true, but it certainly feels like that stupid-ass team is consistently unusually fortunate on horseshit contact, at least against us.

[CubinNY]

Sampson holding his own after pissing off the babip gods.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Without looking it up, seems like Wick has been giving up runs in every outing lately.

[Bertz]

Without looking it up, seems like Wick has been giving up runs in every outing lately.

 

Yeah I was thinking the same thing, absolute trash for the last few weeks. Nothing visibly wrong though, so hopefully it's just normal ups and downs

[CubinNY]

Cubs at least making a game of it.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

not sure why we're trying to get multiple innings out of Leiter Jr. in that situation, doubly so when Hendricks went so deep last night

[Derwood]

6 of our starting 9 hitters have a SLG under .450

[UMFan83]

not sure why we're trying to get multiple innings out of Leiter Jr. in that situation, doubly so when Hendricks went so deep last night

 

David Ross probably isn’t a good manager

[Bertz]

6 of our starting 9 hitters have a SLG under .450

 

The lineup is hardly amazing but league-wide slugging is .393 this year

[Transmogrified Tiger]

6 of our starting 9 hitters have a SLG under .450

 

The lineup is hardly amazing but league-wide slugging is .393 this year

 

Yeah that's almost exactly normal, there's 155 qualified hitters and 50(including those 3 Cubs) have a SLG of .450+

[Derwood]

Geez

[Irrelevant Dude]

Velazquez went 2-4, so we better get Heyward back in the lineup tomorrow.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Velazquez went 2-4, so we better get Heyward back in the lineup tomorrow.

It's ridiculous to me that the Cubs threw 5 prospects into the deep at once, several of which had big questions of contact ability, and rode them to finally ending the drought. But now they have a roster with a clear need for explosive offense and in a probable 100-loss season, and they baby the horsefeathers out of a dude who could quite easily be a top 8 hitter on the team, because they're afraid to expose his poor contact skills. Just let him sink or fuckin swim. They're doing it with Morel who practically came straight up from AA. We know Nelly is gonna have major strikeout issues. But is he that much different from Gorman? The Cardinals are trying to win the division and they're throwing Gorman right into the middle of the lineup every day.

 

Sick of this let him hit LHP and occasionally start vs RH if the matchup is right [expletive].