3/30 - Cubs (Hendricks) vs Rangers (Bradford): 6:05pm, MARQ

[Derwood]

Cubs popping everything up, while the Rangers are enjoying batting practice off Kyle

[PeanutPunch33]

If any Cubs players are fortunate enough to make the home run derby this year, they need to bring Hendricks along as their pitcher.. lol jk 

Hendricks seems useless in road games, if this exact game was at Wrigley Field he'd probably throw 6 innings with 2 ER 

[UMFan83]

I know we had to use the pen more than we wanted to on Thursday but Counsell needs To balance trying to get innings out of Kyle with having any shot of coming back in this game

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Seager has 3 hits with exit velos of 86, 78, and 78

[UMFan83]

3.2 IP, 9 H, 3 XBH, 2 BB, 5 ER

Edited March 31, 2024 by UMFan83

[UMFan83]

Counsell is sitting there wondering if the $8m was worth trying to manage a team with no pitching. 

[CubinNY]

Fuuuuidge

[ToolDRT]

Breaking news: we suck. 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

ooooh Cuas putting that new sweeper where he wants it

[JHBulls]

A lot of these Cubs pitchers do not have the makings of a varsity athlete. 

[WhyCantWeWin]

So far Cooper looking pretty bad

[Derwood]

Too early to replace the hitting coach?

[Derwood]

What's great is that every bat we were rumored to be interested in (but didn't sign) is absolutely raking early. Chapman, Hoskins, Davis, etc.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

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[Derwood]

That was quite a swing, Nico

[Southpaw19]

This is going to be one of those seasons where they don't win many < 4 run outputs. Yes - it's like that most years, but I don't know if they have the wherewithal to withstand onslaughts of runs + good pitching.

[UMFan83]

2 minutes ago, Southpaw19 said:

This is going to be one of those seasons where they don't win many < 4 run outputs. Yes - it's like that most years, but I don't know if they have the wherewithal to withstand onslaughts of runs + good pitching.

There’s no reason the offense can’t be as good as it was last year if not better. They’ll have to outslug some teams but they’ll be fine. Can’t really take much from 2 games…if these games happened in mid-June it would just be one of those stretches. 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Tauchman for Cooper here I assume, would be nice to scratch across 1 to make the 9th tighter, especially w/ Leclerc 'blowing' his last outing

[Transmogrified Tiger]

like I said, great choice sticking with Cooper

[ToolDRT]

…but I don’t want to C it 

[UMFan83]

Rangers attempting to play F the closer

[CubinNY]

That’s a play Morel has to make

[WhyCantWeWin]

Feels like Morel should have caught that 

[ToolDRT]

So far looks like a very poorly put together team. 

[Sammy Sofa]