8.4 DH in the Lou (Willy goes deep in game 1)

[CubinNY]

Willy is feeling good. 1-0 in the third.

 

Pornstache [expletive] is on the mound for the birds.

[CubinNY]

Yadi has put on at least 35 pounds from the start of the season.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

one of these games huh

 

[17 Seconds]

does seiya suck? he doesn't even take walks anymore

[CubinNY]

Stro looking great through 4 innings.

[squally1313]

does seiya suck? he doesn't even take walks anymore

Optimistically, it's him getting tired of getting the Schwarber treatment on borderline pitches and just swinging more, though I can't find the swinging strike stats that would easily prove/disprove that hypothesis. Walk rate is way down in July, but he got his K rate below 20% after it being 27% in April and 32% in May.

[Bertz]

I was pretty sure Stroman was fine before he went on the IL, but it's nice that he's providing pretty definitively that the stuff in April was just something temporary like the weirdo spring training or the weather.

[CubinNY]

Willy with a double!

[CubinNY]

Seyia just drove in Willy.

[UMFan83]

Really makes me wonder how different the season would be if we didn't have our top 4 starters miss extensive time. I don't think we'd be playoff contenders or anything but might be closer to a .500 team.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Just had a chance to think about it, but uh who is getting save situations post-deadline? Seems like it's Wick by default.

[champaignchris]

Really makes me wonder how different the season would be if we didn't have our top 4 starters miss extensive time. I don't think we'd be playoff contenders or anything but might be closer to a .500 team.

 

Today’s game one included, Hendricks, Stroman, Miley and Smiley have started 47 of 103 games this year.

 

Consider what kind of disaster this season would have been if Thompson and Steele weren’t able to perform as well as they have.

[squally1313]

Really makes me wonder how different the season would be if we didn't have our top 4 starters miss extensive time. I don't think we'd be playoff contenders or anything but might be closer to a .500 team.

 

Today’s game one included, Hendricks, Stroman, Miley and Smiley have started 47 of 103 games this year.

 

Consider what kind of disaster this season would have been if Thompson and Steele weren’t able to perform as well as they have.

 

So maybe I'm thinking about this wrong, but Thompson and Steele have performed above average, so they are far from the main causes of us being terrible. Sampson, somehow, has also given us 7 starts of a 3.74 ERA. So that leaves us with 16 games by the other misfits, which, to your point, went pretty terribly. But I don't think you really want to lean on a hypothetical of like, Hendricks or Smyly taking starts from Steele/Thompson and somehow giving us better results.

[CubinNY]

Stro runs out of gas, and as is his wont, Ross takes him out after the game is tied.

 

Ross's fatal flaw is not playing guys like Heyward too much, it's his inability to recognize when to take his starting pitchers out. Seems like it should be a strenglh.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Really makes me wonder how different the season would be if we didn't have our top 4 starters miss extensive time. I don't think we'd be playoff contenders or anything but might be closer to a .500 team.

 

Today’s game one included, Hendricks, Stroman, Miley and Smiley have started 47 of 103 games this year.

 

Consider what kind of disaster this season would have been if Thompson and Steele weren’t able to perform as well as they have.

 

So maybe I'm thinking about this wrong, but Thompson and Steele have performed above average, so they are far from the main causes of us being terrible. Sampson, somehow, has also given us 7 starts of a 3.74 ERA. So that leaves us with 16 games by the other misfits, which, to your point, went pretty terribly. But I don't think you really want to lean on a hypothetical of like, Hendricks or Smyly taking starts from Steele/Thompson and somehow giving us better results.

 

The strength of Thompson and Steele's performance definitely dilutes the benefit, but you also have to consider the knock on effects that starting guys 5-10 on the SP depth chart for 55% of the games has on the bullpen. Especially when even the successful guys weren't eating up many innings when the need was most dire(because they weren't built up).

[Bertz]

That's a really good outing for Hughes. He hasn't had major platoon issues to this point, but anecdotally I think he's been spared from especially tough righties.

 

Getting some confirmation that he's totally playable even against tough righties is the sort of thing these last two months should be for.

[CubinNY]

Where do the Cardinals find all these goes who go triple digits?

[Andy]

How charitable of our shitty relievers to walk 2 straight guys in the 9th to help STL win a game.

 

God I horsefeathering hate those assholes

[ManEatingTarp]

Where do the Cardinals find all these goes who go triple digits?

Drafting and player development.

[CubinNY]

Where do the Cardinals find all these goes who go triple digits?

Drafting and player development.

What is this voodoo magic of which you speak?

[CubinNY]

I really hate the Cardinals

[Derwood]

Sean Newcomb is hot trash

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Kervin Castro came into his Cubs debut with a 27.00 ERA. He pitch an inning and his ERA is still 27.00