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 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 by gflore34