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6/13 - Pirates (Ortiz) vs Cubs (Taillon): 7:05pm, Marquee

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12 minutes ago, Nolansomebody said:

The A's are on a winning streak, the Pirates are leading the NL Central, and the Diamondbacks are 16 games above .500

What is baseball?

Both the Diamondbacks and the Rangers should be the blueprint for the Cubs. 

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3 hours ago, CubinNY said:

Both the Diamondbacks and the Rangers should be the blueprint for the Cubs. 

Howso for the Diamondbacks?  Not sure what they've done to be competitive but their payroll is only at $83m so I'm curious what they are doing that the Cubs should emulate.

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Estrada got sent to Iowa too, and Anthony Kay is up to replace him.  Burdi got moved to the 60 day to make room on the 40 man, which is a tough break to get your shot at the MLB pen and then have an appendectomy put you on the shelf for 2 months.

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5 minutes ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Estrada got sent to Iowa too, and Anthony Kay is up to replace him.  Burdi got moved to the 60 day to make room on the 40 man, which is a tough break to get your shot at the MLB pen and then have an appendectomy put you on the shelf for 2 months.

To be a left handed pitcher who can throw strikes. Kay has been kicking around AAA/MLB since 2019. 

The Mets drafted him twice, the last time in the 1st round in 2016. 

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39 minutes ago, champaignchris said:

Have the Cubs scored more than 2 runs this season with one of these lefty-heavy line ups?

Since I'm a dork, I went and looked this up.

Games with 5 L/S starting:

4/1 - 1 run

4/3 - 1 run

4/7 - 2 runs

4/9 - 2 runs

4/12 - 2 runs

4/19 - 12 runs

5/2 - 1 run

5/13 - 1 run

5/16 - 3 runs

5/21 - 1 run

5/24 - 4 runs

5/26 - 0 runs

5/31 - 3 runs

 

Games with 6 L/S starting:

5/29 - 1 run

6/3 - 0 runs

 

So 15 times they've started at least 5 lefties or switch hitters (mostly Happ) in the lineup.  They have scored 2 runs or less in 11 of those 15 games and scored more than 4 runs 1 time.  Even with the crazy outlier 12 run game, they are averaging 2.3 runs per game when they trot out a lineup with 5+ lefties.  Remove the 12 run outlier and its 1.6 runs per game.

Oh and they are 4-11 in those games.

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18 minutes ago, Nolansomebody said:

 

I don't think anybody was expecting Mastrobouni to come back. Tauchman is the leadoff hitter again.

1…2…3…4….5 lefties in the lineup, we can safely tune out

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Helping get the Pirates starter back on track with the Mastrobuoni/Madrigal/Barnhart 1-2-3 inning.  

God, that's 2011 bad.

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Why did we bunt there?

 

and then Mastro gets hit by a grounder costing the Cubs a run. Unreal

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