This is the Game Thread for 5/20 Cubs @ Phillies 3:05pm

[UMFan83]

The Cubs won their 7th straight game against the Phillies last night which is kind of hilarious.  Now a Cubs starter with a demonic ERA is facing a much better starter, albeit one who has looked mortal this spring

[cl smooth]

Why is Morel hitting 9th?

[Derwood]

28 minutes ago, cl smooth said:

Why is Morel hitting 9th?

It's the new leadoff hitter

 

And by new, I mean 7 years old

[CubinNY]

Drinking gin and tonics by the pool and listening to the Cobs. Getting a jump on Summer 

[CubinNY]

It would be great if they won. 

[CubinNY]

Not go nothing, game threads belong in the game threads. 

[PackLandVA]

Who starts tomorrow’s game thread?

[Derwood]

What a disaster this Taillon signing was

[UMFan83]

29 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

Not go nothing, game threads belong in the game threads. 

I agree but I don’t want to be banned

[UMFan83]

Happy Saturday everyone (except Jameson Taillon)

 

season ERA now at 7.92 

[Derwood]

Good thing we let Schwarber go so we'd have money for Taillon

 

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Yes, I know that's not how that happened, but I'm still bitter

 

[UMFan83]

2 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Good thing we let Schwarber go so we'd have money for Taillon

 

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Yes, I know that's not how that happened, but I'm still bitter

 

Could really use his -0.7 WAR this year 😂

[Hairyducked Idiot]

too late to get a refund on the pitch lab?

[soccer10k]

Me tuning in to the Cubs game today.

[UMFan83]

7 starts into the season Taillon has yet to go beyond 5 IP (unless he manages to exceed that today), and has only allowed less than 3 ER once. 
 

i still have hope for a turnaround - too much track record of being decent - but clearly he’s not right and whatever they are doing to get him on track is not working

[CubinNY]

16 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

too late to get a refund on the pitch lab?

He had such a great spring. He left everything in Arizona 

[Derwood]

18 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

7 starts into the season Taillon has yet to go beyond 5 IP (unless he manages to exceed that today), and has only allowed less than 3 ER once. 
 

i still have hope for a turnaround - too much track record of being decent - but clearly he’s not right and whatever they are doing to get him on track is not working

2 1/3 is almost 5

[gflore34]

It's got to be health related, he can barely throw a strike, 62 pitches, only 35 strikes, I sense a DL stint coming soon.

Edited May 20, 2023 by gflore34

[Derwood]

The good news is that Rucker also sucks. 

[UMFan83]

Taillon finishes the day with an 8.10 ERA for the season. Luckily only 6 of the 8 runs were earned

[gflore34]

This bullpen is what angers me the most, Jed said something about finding more guys who can miss bats and get K's.  And, what does do?  Build a collection of relatively soft tossers, seems every other team is baseball has a least one guy in the bullpen who can bring the heat.  Cubs, it appears, don't have someone who can bring the in the heat in their whole horsefeathering system.

[Derwood]

This offsets yesterday's game (re: Pythag)

[sweetpeteman]

8 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

This bullpen is what angers me the most, Jed said something about finding more guys who can miss bats and get K's.  And, what does do?  Build a collection of relatively soft tossers, seems every other team is baseball has a least one guy in the bullpen who can bring the heat.  Cubs, it appears, don't have someone who can bring the in the heat in their whole horsefeathering system.

While I agree with your point, I must point out that Nick Burdi threw 100 yesterday.

[gflore34]

1 minute ago, sweetpeteman said:

While I agree with your point, I must point out that Nick Burdi threw 100 yesterday.

I knew what I wrote was a bit of a fast take but, man, it's frustrating, watching the same soft tossing, sinker-slider pitcher come out the Cubs bullpen.

[gflore34]

What's the point of pulling Rucker now?  Is Ross afraid the game is going to get out of hand?  Just let the POS finish the inning.

Edited May 20, 2023 by gflore34