4/9/24 Cubs (Brown) @ Padres (Musgrove) - 9:05 PM

[chibears55]

Wisdom looking like he's ready to join the team in Seattle Friday, 2 more hits and a HR today.

Question is who gets booted ?

Cooper, Mastrobuoni,  or Madrigal 

My guess Cooper 

[WhyCantWeWin]

At least they are making him throw a lot of pitches 

[Irrelevant Dude]

Cubs are working a lot of deep counts against Musgrove, but nothing to show for it yet.

[Jason Ross]

11 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Wisdom looking like he's ready to join the team in Seattle Friday, 2 more hits and a HR today.

Question is who gets booted ?

Cooper, Mastrobuoni,  or Madrigal 

My guess Cooper 

Wisdom still has options. They may keep him in Triple-A. Cooper has played well and they'd likely lose him. 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

uhhhhh that was an obvious swing by Bogaerts?

[Irrelevant Dude]

Why does Nico look like he is swinging out of his shoes every at bat?

[chibears55]

I'm pretty excited about the Cubs starting pitching outlook for the next couple seasons. 

Imanaga,  Steele,  Wicks, Brown,  Assad, Horton etc.,  

 

[squally1313]

Nico is definitely going through something. He can glove his way to a 3 WAR and I think there’s built in improvement to offset his struggles elsewhere, but the approach has been real weird. 

[chibears55]

3 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Why does Nico look like he is swinging out of his shoes every at bat?

He and Gomes gotta start getting it going

[We Got The Whole 9]

Just now, squally1313 said:

Nico is definitely going through something. He can glove his way to a 3 WAR and I think there’s built in improvement to offset his struggles elsewhere, but the approach has been real weird. 

Looks like he is trying to see more pitches and be more discerning. That could be affecting his timing.

 

We are not touching Musgrove's curve. He's just dropping it wherever he wants.

[Irrelevant Dude]

1 minute ago, chibears55 said:

He and Gomes gotta start getting it going

I suspect we're gonna see the Gomes/Amaya teeter totter start to tilt a bit more toward Amaya.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

another obvious swing from Machado, what are we doing here

[squally1313]

At the risk of jinxing things, this is pretty clutch from brown. Definitely still some work to do, but there was a pretty significant ‘blow up in the first two innings’ risk here that he was able to avoid 

[Rex Buckingham]

I've been impressed with Brown's work in the Majors

[muntjack]

Ben Brown reminds me of the kid pitcher from Dazed and Confused. Not just the long hair but the lanky, lazy body language.  He almost seems like he'd rather be somewhere else.  

[Rex Buckingham]

9 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

He and Gomes gotta start getting it going

that's a start!

[squally1313]

Man Yan Gomes pimping a home run to center was not something I had on my bingo card 

[chibears55]

Gomes, good start to getting it going 😅

[JHBulls]

Didn’t know how far that had traveled off the bat as I have a feed here that doesn’t have sound. It’s the most stable one I’ve found so I am stuck with it now lol. 

[Rex Buckingham]

Seiya is just on everything

[chibears55]

Suzuki getting 200 hits this season 

[squally1313]

Yeah I was a little disappointed at that 2-0 swing by seiya on the curveball in the dirt but it’s obvious he’s pretty locked in. Those two aren’t quite as dynamic as Cain/yelich back in the day, but they are going to consistently wear down opposing pitchers. 

[Irrelevant Dude]

Musgrove out after 4+ innings.  The Cubs offense claims another SP victim.

[JHBulls]

How many times has this team been in a bases loaded opportunity this year? Just quality AB’s consistently. 

[WhyCantWeWin]

I love morel