It's that time. How many wins?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

91 to go

[UMFan83]

After watching today's game, I'd like to revise my prediction to 120-42

[Brock Beauchamp]

On 3/29/2023 at 11:35 AM, grassbass said:

Digging deeper into 2005, the Cubs had a combined OBP of .299 from the leadoff spot that year. Hairston actually was the best of the bunch with a .344 OBP in 348 plate appearances in the leadoff spot. Patterson and Perez both produced a .263 OBP in that spot in 139 and 119 plate appearances, respectively. The team as a whole was dead last in the NL in walks. What a waste of Walker, Lee, Ramirez, and even Barrett that year by batting such garbage at the top of the order.

Old baseball had great pace and action but boy it sure was stupid. 

[UMFan83]

10 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Old baseball had great pace and action but boy it sure was stupid. 

The blame, at least in this case, goes exclusively to Dusty.  In his mind, the leadoff hitter had to be a 2B, SS or CF even if it was Neifi Perez or Rey Ordonez.  The best hitter had to hit 3rd, catcher had to bat 8th, and walks clog the bases dude.  

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

The blame, at least in this case, goes exclusively to Dusty.  In his mind, the leadoff hitter had to be a 2B, SS or CF even if it was Neifi Perez or Rey Ordonez.  The best hitter had to hit 3rd, catcher had to bat 8th, and walks clog the bases dude.  

Dusty has done a great job of evolving with the game but let's just say he isn't the first guy over the wall, ever.

[Bote McBoteface]

Is the politics topic gone or am I just not seeing it? These guys realize we didnt actually use this forum to talk about the Cubs right?

[Brock Beauchamp]

2 minutes ago, Bote McBoteface said:

Is the politics topic gone or am I just not seeing it? These guys realize we didnt actually use this forum to talk about the Cubs right?

It's right there on the forum index page. You're just not looking hard enough.

*saunters away, whistling innocently*

[Outshined_One]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Old baseball had great pace and action but boy it sure was stupid. 

I'm still salty over the fact that Derrek Lee won both Gold Glove and Silver Slugger for NL 1B, but Albert Pujols won MVP that year.

[David]

1 hour ago, Outshined_One said:

I'm still salty over the fact that Derrek Lee won both Gold Glove and Silver Slugger for NL 1B, but Albert Pujols won MVP that year.

FWIW, Pujols did have 7.7 fWAR that year to Lee's 7.0.

[Sammy Sofa]

4 minutes ago, David said:

FWIW, Pujols did have 7.7 fWAR that year to Lee's 7.0.

I'm begging you, smoke some weed, for the love of GOD.

[David]

4 minutes ago, Sammy Sofa said:

I'm begging you, smoke some weed, for the love of GOD.

what, like more than every day?

[David]

now let me passive aggressively call out the message board homers who feel aggrieved by a HOFer winning an MVP on a 100 win team over the dude on the 79 win team in peace

[Sammy Sofa]

Whatever it takes for you to delete that Pujols post.

Edited March 31, 2023 by Sammy Sofa

[Sammy Sofa]

Though I'd be on the other side of this with Derrick Rose/LeBron, so what the horsefeathers.

[Outshined_One]

Frankly, it's just stupid that someone won the awards for best offensive and defensive 1B and someone else who plays the same position in the same division won MVP.  Considering the amount of talent on that team, along with Dusty's destruction of the lineup and the rotation, I'm allowed to be bitter about petty crap like that.

[Bote McBoteface]

6 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

It's right there on the forum index page. You're just not looking hard enough.

*saunters away, whistling innocently*

Thats a really good point, I wasn’t looking hard enough. Idk how I scrolled past that so many times without seeing it.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Just now, Bote McBoteface said:

Thats a really good point, I wasn’t looking hard enough. Idk how I scrolled past that so many times without seeing it.

I'm messing with you, I enabled the forum for you after you posted that.

[jersey cubs fan]

On 3/30/2023 at 4:44 PM, jersey cubs fan said:

I had them at 79 but chalked this one up to a loss so officially 80 win territory now

Back down to 79

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, jersey cubs fan said:

Back down to 79

Keep this up for 162 and it’s impossible to be wrong. 

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I predicted 92 wins, which would be 70 losses. This puts them at 69 to go, and I think that is nice.

[UMFan83]

31 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Keep this up for 162 and it’s impossible to be wrong. 

I’m just glad you allowed permanent editing so I am guaranteed to be correct at the end

[Coach C]

I will go for 84.

[SouthSideRyan]

On 3/31/2023 at 6:46 PM, Brock Beauchamp said:

I'm messing with you, I enabled the forum for you after you posted that.

Me too please

[David]

On 3/28/2023 at 7:58 PM, David said:

I went with 86-90.  I think the pitching and defense (especially the dudes up the middle) are going to get them off to a good start. The level of defense that can be really impactful.  One of the biggets strengths of the 2016 team was the insanely good defense.  This lineup looks to me like it's on that level (IN TERMS OF DEFENSE).

Some surprise contributions from one of the rookies (Davis/Mervis/??).  I expect a pretty big year out of Suzuki, which is probably the biggest thing for me.  I'm encouraged about some aspects of Bellinger's spring, especially as it has gone on. 

Hopefully some deadline additions of worth.

Will be tough to contend for a wild card with the teams in the east and west, so hopefully the Cardinals can run into some bad luck.

I was insanely wrong about some of this (Mervis/Davis ugh lol) and less wrong, but still wrong about some (Seiya) but either way we're on pace for 86-87 wins heading into September.

Let's get greedy, though.  I want 90.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

On 3/28/2023 at 8:52 PM, Ding Dong Johnson said:

92 just because