4/2 - Brewers (Lauer) at Cubs (Taillon) 1:20 PM CT, Marquee

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

Flipping back to the game and seeing the Brewers hit a 2 run single to blow open the game 

Bad baseball luck for two minutes and the game is blown wide open.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

[UMFan83]

Good news is you can also watch the Bulls get blown out if you get bored of the Cubs getting blown out. Typical Chicago sports fans dilemma. 
 

LSU/Iowa it is

[UMFan83]

Merryweather leaves his first appearance of the year with a 67.50 ERA for the season after allowing 5 ER in 0.2 IP

Edited April 2, 2023 by UMFan83

[Derwood]

Jerry Mayweather, ladies and gents

[Hairyducked Idiot]

At least during the tank era we had good prospects to look forward to 

[UMFan83]

10 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

At least during the tank era we had good prospects to look forward to 

That’s why I’m certain the retool is ultimately going to take longer than the rebuild, if it even works at all. Cubs have some good things going for them for sure but they simply don’t have enough impact talent either in the majors or the farm

Edited April 2, 2023 by UMFan83

[UMFan83]

Well despite not scoring for the first 16 innings of the series the Brewers have outscored the Cubs 11-7 so far lol

[Derwood]

33 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

At least during the tank era we had good prospects to look forward to 

Does PCA not exist in your world?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

6 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Does PCA not exist in your world?

I liked him better when he was called Albert Almora

[Transmogrified Tiger]

ban the shift

[CubinNY]

Laying an egg the Sunday before Easter 

[UMFan83]

16 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Does PCA not exist in your world?

Just pulling from FG but in 2014 the Cubs had the 4th, 6th, 8th, 22nd best prospects in baseball.  

In 2015 they had the 1st, 3rd, 13th, 21st best prospects.  

this year PCA is 14 and the next best is 73rd.

KB was a 70 FV prospect, Russell 65.  PCA is a 60

The Cubs had a staggering amount of elite level talent in 2014-2015.  They just don’t now.  Doesn’t mean there’s not plenty of good stuff going on down there and players to be excited about though.

 

Edited April 2, 2023 by UMFan83

[UMFan83]

Gotta love the “we’re down 7 runs so the offense finally puts some hits together to make the overall numbers look more respectable 

[SpongeWorthy]

14 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

They just don’t now.  Doesn’t mean there’s not plenty of good stuff going on down there and players to be excited about though.

 

isn't that exactly what it means

[CubinNY]

2 minutes ago, SpongeWorthy said:

isn't that exactly what it means

I didn’t really think the rankings matter to a large degree, but production and development do matter. Does anyone think if somehow the Cardinals had PCA and we had Walker the situation would be the same? Walker would be AA with a ton of potential and a 35% K rate. PCA would be Jim Edmonds’ illegitimate child manning CF in St. Louis. 

[UMFan83]

17 minutes ago, SpongeWorthy said:

isn't that exactly what it means

Not really. A bunch of FV 50 players means MLB regulars which is great. FV 65-70 players are future franchise cornerstones the exact players the Cubs desperately lack right now  they had 3-4 of them during the last rebuild, 0 now  

at least that’s how I understand it, I’m not a prospect guru

Edited April 2, 2023 by UMFan83

[bukie]

1 hour ago, UMFan83 said:

Good news is you can also watch the Bulls get blown out if you get bored of the Cubs getting blown out. Typical Chicago sports fans dilemma. 
 

LSU/Iowa it is

Uhh...the Bulls won by 20.

[UMFan83]

11 minutes ago, bukie said:

Uhh...the Bulls won by 20.

lol they were down 23 when I posted that. What a comeback!

[Sosa21MVP]

2 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

That’s why I’m certain the retool is ultimately going to take longer than the rebuild, if it even works at all. Cubs have some good things going for them for sure but they simply don’t have enough impact talent either in the majors or the farm

Yeah. Overall when I look at our roster/lineups right now the feeling is extremely meh. Full of meh. All the meh. 

Meh.

[Andy]

6 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

That’s why I’m certain the retool is ultimately going to take longer than the rebuild, if it even works at all. Cubs have some good things going for them for sure but they simply don’t have enough impact talent either in the majors or the farm

That was a likely outcome anyway. Even if Jed did everything as well as Theo did, which is obviously debatable, everything working out as it did with the guys Theo acquired in the tank years had to be like a 97+ percentile outcome even with it not ending very well.

[Brian707]

So basically we are back to the 80's and 90's Cubs

[Hairyducked Idiot]

2 hours ago, Brian707 said:

So basically we are back to the 80's and 90's Cubs

90s cubs without the Sandberg then Sosa star power 

[UMFan83]

37 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

90s cubs without the Sandberg then Sosa star power 

Understanding "star power" is not the same as production necessarily, Dansby's WAR last year would have been the 3rd best season in Ryno's career 😅.  Both defensive MI with respectable amount of pop in the bat,

The Sosa match will be a little tougher...if Bellinger randomly despite no signs of this being possible turned back into MVP form maybe

Edited April 3, 2023 by UMFan83

[Sammy Sofa]

1 hour ago, UMFan83 said:

Understanding "star power" is not the same as production necessarily, Dansby's WAR last year would have been the 3rd best season in Ryno's career 😅. 

Even though that's true, it's disgusting.