5/7/23 Marlins (Alcantara) vs Cubs (Wesneski): 1:20pm Marquee

[UMFan83]

Disappointing loss. I don’t know how you get better at hitting with RISP but they need to figure that horsefeathers out 

[soccer10k]

Would have been really nice to just have Barnhart bunt to avoid the DP so Nico could bat.

[Tryptamine]

Welcome to sub .450 ops . Absolutely terrible. 

[Irrelevant Dude]

I don't care what the stats say. If you try to convince me that Tucker Barnhart has a hit this year, I'll call you a liar.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Just now, UMFan83 said:

Disappointing loss. I don’t know how you get better at hitting with RISP but they need to figure that horsefeathers out 

You don't. The inability to sequence offensive events in a strategic way has always been one of the sport's biggest sources of variance.

[Andy]

I'm so glad we wasted 5 innings of pitching in the middle of 3 straight weeks without an off day to get back to where we would've been without the 9th inning rally

[CubinNY]

Boooooooo. 

[UMFan83]

2 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

You don't. The inability to sequence offensive events in a strategic way has always been one of the sport's biggest sources of variance.

And yet we’ve been bad at it for 20 years lol. That’s some variance. The 2016 Cubs had the best BA with RISP that I can remember and they were like 18th in the league. 
 

illogical rant of course because every single variable possible has changed over the last 20 years so unless there’s some spirit controlling our ability to hit in the clutch it’s just multiple decades long bad luck

[UMFan83]

Another 1 run loss.  Imagine if we were 3-3 in one run games over the last 2 weeks instead of 0-6. Team feels a lot different at 20-14 instead of 17-17.  3-4 hits away from things looking much better 

[Tryptamine]

1 minute ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

I don't care what the stats say. If you try to convince me that Tucker Barnhart has a hit this year, I'll call you a liar.

Even in the rare occasion he puts the ball in play its weak contact. 

.443 ops, 29 wOPS+, and the funny part is that he's actually overperforming his xBA , xSLG and xOBP

[Hairyducked Idiot]

18 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

And yet we’ve been bad at it for 20 years lol. That’s some variance. The 2016 Cubs had the best BA with RISP that I can remember and they were like 18th in the league. 
 

illogical rant of course because every single variable possible has changed over the last 20 years so unless there’s some spirit controlling our ability to hit in the clutch it’s just multiple decades long bad luck

The 2016 Cubs hit .256 overall and .254 with RISP.

 

[Nolansomebody]

Back to .500! Yay!

[itisallpartoftheplan]

27 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

Even in the rare occasion he puts the ball in play its weak contact. 

.443 ops, 29 wOPS+, and the funny part is that he's actually overperforming his xBA , xSLG and xOBP

Any chance they roll with Amaya? Probably not since they want him in 5 times a week. But the Barnhart at bats are sad.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

32 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

And yet we’ve been bad at it for 20 years lol. That’s some variance. The 2016 Cubs had the best BA with RISP that I can remember and they were like 18th in the league. 
 

illogical rant of course because every single variable possible has changed over the last 20 years so unless there’s some spirit controlling our ability to hit in the clutch it’s just multiple decades long bad luck

Going into today, the Cubs were hitting .279 with RISP and .270 overall.

That would make the 8th season out of the last 20 in which they hit higher with RISP than overall, against 10 where they hit lower and two where they hit the same.

[UMFan83]

18 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

Going into today, the Cubs were hitting .279 with RISP and .270 overall.

That would make the 8th season out of the last 20 in which they hit higher with RISP than overall, against 10 where they hit lower and two where they hit the same.

Shut up with your stats and logic lol. I swear someone posted here or on Twitter that the Cubs had the lowest overall BA with RISP over a 20 year period or something.  I couldn’t find that but I did find this about this years team:

 

https://twitter.com/joeyknowsnothin/status/1654932302521139201?s=46&t=0_jG0mfAmSwG-21Uluk7Vw

 

not sure why it’s not embedding but it basically says the numbers drop off considerably in medium and high leverage situations (76 wRC+ - 26th in baseball) 

But small sample size and no way to prove clutch is some controllable attribute. 

Edited May 7, 2023 by UMFan83

[17 Seconds]

these 1 run losses will hurt even worse when the hard part of the schedule buries them

[javy knows my name]

I was pirating a stream today so I had to watch the Marlins broadcast. They claimed that the Marlins were undefeated in one-run games

[Derwood]

5 minutes ago, javy knows my name said:

I was pirating a stream today so I had to watch the Marlins broadcast. They claimed that the Marlins were undefeated in one-run games

 

They are 11-0 in one-run games this season

Edited May 8, 2023 by Derwood

[Andy]

3 minutes ago, Derwood said:

 

They are 11-0 in one-run games this season

4 against the Cubs

[javy knows my name]

1 minute ago, Andy said:

4 against the Cubs

Well at least they got that right. When Wisdom bunted they were going crazy that this was the FIRST TIME the Cubs had bunted all year. 

Of course, it was their second bunt of the game 

[UMFan83]

Just now, javy knows my name said:

Well at least they got that right. When Wisdom bunted they were going crazy that this was the FIRST TIME the Cubs had bunted all year. 

Of course, it was their second bunt of the game 

It was the first game they sac bunted in at least, the marquee broadcast said they had 0 coming into the game. 

[javy knows my name]

Just now, UMFan83 said:

It was the first game they sac bunted in at least, the marquee broadcast said they had 0 coming into the game. 

I get it, their stats hadn't updated for today's game, still very dumb, it had happened 3 innings prior