8/18 - Royals (Ragans) vs Cubs (Taillon): 1:20pm, Marquee

[Irrelevant Dude]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

Why is Wisdom still a thing

His OPS is still higher than Happ's.

[Michael Busch Light]

Taillon decided to challenge Waters with not 1, but 2 awful **** shot curveballs.  Interesting choice 

[CubinNY]

1 minute ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

His OPS is still higher than Happ's.

Wisdom won't be on next year's team and Happ will. That's not good.

[CubinNY]

Gomes didn't have much of shot there, but that was not a good throw. 

[CubinNY]

Nico, nice

 

[UMFan83]

Offense stop being offensive and get some runs

[We Got The Whole 9]

We have absolutely no control over base stealing. We might catch a guy with a pickoff or two but the chances of throwing the runner out on a straight steal is really bad. 

 

Gomes has caught 12/49, Barnhart 7/37, and Amaya is 1/18

 

Freaking awful.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I thought Morel hit that to the moon off the bat

[UMFan83]

Lefthanded Royals hitters are 3-4 against Taillon.

 

Righthanded Royals hitters are 0-6 against him

[Transmogrified Tiger]

4 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

We have absolutely no control over base stealing. We might catch a guy with a pickoff or two but the chances of throwing the runner out on a straight steal is really bad. 

 

Gomes has caught 12/49, Barnhart 7/37, and Amaya is 1/18

 

Freaking awful.

That adds up to an 81.8% SB%.  League average is... 79.7%, so they've allowed 2 more steals than you'd expect given the attempts. 

EDIT:  Average is 107 attempts as well and the Cubs have 102, so they aren't getting beaten up on volume either

[UMFan83]

this offense is so obnoxious when they're slumping

[Michael Busch Light]

Pinch hit Madrigal basket ball may be needed again. 

[Irrelevant Dude]

I'm old enough to remember when this offense used to score lots of runs.  Those were the days.

[chibears55]

Will PCA be the Cubs bobby Witt Jr ?

[Michael Busch Light]

Has anyone had a Mynd drink?  Are they good?  Do you get a buzz?  

[chibears55]

Have the cubs won games in the second half whenever Barnhart or Wisdom starts 🙄🙄🙄

[chibears55]

Let Go, score some runs already 

[We Got The Whole 9]

1 minute ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

That adds up to an 81.8% SB%.  League average is... 79.7%, so they've allowed 2 more steals than you'd expect given the attempts.

I guess actually Amaya really sinks the ship and may be a significant reason he doesn't get many starts back there. 

[UMFan83]

Royals offense is averaging almost 7 runs a game in the past week. Not a great time to have a slumping offense so let’s get it together 

[CubinNY]

Dansby is in Siberia. 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

4 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

I guess actually Amaya really sinks the ship and may be a significant reason he doesn't get many starts back there. 

Something to keep an eye on for sure, though there may be mitigating factors, e.g. he's caught a disproportionate amount of Hendricks starts

[CubinNY]

Candy is going to get an RBI here. 

[soccer10k]

We’re on the board. Now pile on.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Well that was fortunate 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Candelario really top-spinned the bejeezus out of that one