5/15/23 Cobs (Taillon) at Houston (Valdez) 7:10 PM CDT

[mul21]

The trash Cobs go to Houston to continue to get their brains beat in by actual good teams who started slow out of the gate.  Can't wait to see Hosmer leading off tonight for reasons. 

Of the 6 Cubs who have faced Valdez, zero have gotten a hit.

Astros are a combined 14/41 or .341 against Taillon with 4 HRs.

 

I expect all the trends to reverse and the Cubs to win 8-1 tonight.

[TomtheBombadil]

I’ve got mad respeck for Framber Valdez, maybe the most underrated player in baseball, but Houston’s definitely seen a drop in talent over the past couple years and seem beatable 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Adding a reliever to the 40 man so close to when Hendricks (and soon after Heuer) are going to need 40 man spots leads me to think this might be the end of the road for Boxberger, unless someone has gone from zero to extremely injured very quickly

[jersey cubs fan]

4 minutes ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

 unless someone has gone from zero to extremely injured very quickly

There's no such thing as pitcher at zero injured

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Stipulated. So unless a pitcher has become mostly dead very quickly, I'm guessing they're kicking a reliever off the 40 man and Boxberger is the really obvious candidate.

[mul21]

Maybe it's Hosmer.

 

Edit: Hopefully it's Hosmer.

Edited May 15 by mul21

[UMFan83]

51 minutes ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Adding a reliever to the 40 man so close to when Hendricks (and soon after Heuer) are going to need 40 man spots leads me to think this might be the end of the road for Boxberger, unless someone has gone from zero to extremely injured very quickly

Todays roster moves, including sending Wesneski down:

 

 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

The 5th starter isn't technically needed again until the finale of the Mets series on the 25th, so I guess they'll punt the 40 man decisions until then.  Hendricks' 30 days on rehab would be about up by then, so that's the cliff for making another 40 man call.

[UMFan83]

I knew this was going to be a rough stretch but yikes 

[CubinNY]

Game over in the first. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Irritated, I turned off the Brewers game after they’re down 4-0 to the Cardinals, only to find…

[Derwood]

Taillon SUUUUUUUCKS

[Transmogrified Tiger]

All 4 runs on Morel there, that was as bad as any misplay that got Schwarber his DH reputation.  In some ways worse because he did not have very far to travel.

[UMFan83]

Cardinals are on their way to 7-1 in their last 8 games.  With our luck they'll somehow trade for and extend Ohtani at the deadline.

[jersey cubs fan]

The pitcher I was completely disinterested in is quite bad. 
 

never settle for the 17th best option on the market 

[Irrelevant Dude]

Just now, jersey cubs fan said:

The pitcher I was completely disinterested in is quite bad. 

It's Quintana 2.0, except this time the Cubs overpaid in dollars instead of prospects.

[jersey cubs fan]

6 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

It's Quintana 2.0, except this time the Cubs overpaid in dollars instead of prospects.

For me I hated the Quintana deal from day one then talked myself into the value of competent starting pitching. For taillon i just never got it. Maybe that’ll change

[Transmogrified Tiger]

The Morellercoaster continues

[cl smooth]

Morel is him

[UMFan83]

I'm glad we called up that guy

[jersey cubs fan]

Boost in Morel

[Derwood]

The bat speed

[Transmogrified Tiger]

.180 xBA on that home run, what a great sport

[Andy]

1 hour ago, UMFan83 said:

Cardinals are on their way to 7-1 in their last 8 games.  With our luck they'll somehow trade for and extend Ohtani at the deadline.

Them turning around their season the second we showed up on the schedule was among the most predictable things ever. I don't gamble but I should've acted on whatever their division odds were going into that series

[Andy]

That was some freaking catch