5/7 Cubs (Shota) vs. Padres (Vasquez) 6:40 PM CT

[chibears55]

Watching these guys hit is frustrating...

Hoerner. 275 and Tauchman. 283 are the only hitters on this roster with average over .260 🙄🙄

9 are under .240

Eventually these guys are gonna go off, im guessing in Pittsburgh 

[UMFan83]

Tick tick tick, bullpen time is swiftly approaching

[JHBulls]

Missed you Belli! 

[UMFan83]

2 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Watching these guys hit is frustrating...

Hoerner. 275 and Tauchman. 283 are the only hitters on this roster with average over .260 🙄🙄

9 are under .240

Eventually these guys are gonna go off, im guessing in Pittsburgh 

Maybe the 2nd and 3rd games. Doubt they’ll tee off on Jared Jones but maybe he’s due to regress. 

[squally1313]

6 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Watching these guys hit is frustrating...

Hoerner. 275 and Tauchman. 283 are the only hitters on this roster with average over .260 🙄🙄

9 are under .240

Eventually these guys are gonna go off, im guessing in Pittsburgh 

I don’t disagree with the overall frustration, but a ton of that is just the modern version of baseball. League average is .239. For as much of the season as this slump has seemed to occupy, we’re three points below average. 
 

having said that, nothing about this dudes numbers predicted this, and I just turned the game on right after the belli home run to watch him dotting edges all over the place. Very frustrating. 

[Crusader]

We were missing that in our lineup.

[chibears55]

7 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

I don’t disagree with the overall frustration, but a ton of that is just the modern version of baseball. League average is .239. For as much of the season as this slump has seemed to occupy, we’re three points below average. 
 

having said that, nothing about this dudes numbers predicted this, and I just turned the game on right after the belli home run to watch him dotting edges all over the place. Very frustrating. 

That the frustrating part, a few of these guys are a whole lot better then what they're doing and team wise they should be much much better then below the average. 

Just shows how good the SP has been for them to have 21 wins now

[squally1313]

I’m in love with Shota

[Jason Ross]

Shota is awesome.

[JHBulls]

Shota might not give up a run ever again.

[WhyCantWeWin]

PCA has looked really bad against LHP

[We Got The Whole 9]

The least competitive AB possible after a really good PA last time. PCA got 3 good pitches to hit and didn't even take a swing. 

[chibears55]

PCA has 2 or 3 games left before going back to Iowa for Suzuki return. 

Hopefully he takes all what he's learned and works on it for when he returns for good

[UMFan83]

Can Shota pitch a complete game?

[WhyCantWeWin]

Maybe Busch should be DH 

[chibears55]

How does Busch not see Amaya backing into him

[WhyCantWeWin]

You gotta squeeze one more outta him

[squally1313]

I’m obsessed with shota 

[We Got The Whole 9]

He's freaking disgusting 

[Jason Ross]

At this point I'm not sure a Cy Young award is enough for how good Shota clearly is. The MLB will have to invent a new, more prestigious award to fully encapsulate Shota's brilliance. 

[We Got The Whole 9]

Just now, 1908_Cubs said:

At this point I'm not sure a Cy Young award is enough for how good Shota clearly is. The MLB will have to invent a new, more prestigious award to fully encapsulate Shota's brilliance. 

Teams are gonna be scrambling to create their own version of him lol

[Jason Ross]

1 minute ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Teams are gonna be scrambling to create their own version of him lol

I wonder how long until the Cubs pick up his option to extend this to five years.

[squally1313]

A very 2023 Bellinger game 

[WhyCantWeWin]

Cmon Dansby, try not sucking here

[squally1313]

2 minutes ago, 1908_Cubs said:

I wonder how long until the Cubs pick up his option to extend this to five years.

Is there any benefit to doing it earlier?