Braves (Smith-Shawver) @ Cubs (Brown) - 5/23/24, 1:20 CST, Marquee

[UMFan83]

This fing team wide slump is so freaking annoying.  Just looking for any sign of life.  We're not even getting like the one random feel good outlier offensive game right now.

[chibears55]

Busch is not good...

[WhyCantWeWin]

That was quick 

[chibears55]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

This fing team wide slump is so freaking annoying.  Just looking for any sign of life.  We're not even getting like the one random feel good outlier offensive game right now.

No cause even when they do score, it seems like it because of walks, Wild pitches, and errors contribute to them.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Maybe don't fall behind 3-1

[UMFan83]

Just now, chibears55 said:

Busch is not good...

And yet somehow hes just one of 5 Cubs to have a wRC+ of over 100 in the month of may (Wisdom, Nico, Bellinger, and Morel being the other 4)

[chibears55]

66 pitches and looking great, I thought he'd at least get 80+...

 

[JHBulls]

The Ricketts need to shell out and send the starters on a much needed holiday to one of the Greek islands or Japan at the end of the year and the hitters and bullpen to, I don’t know… St Louis. 

[UMFan83]

Just now, JHBulls said:

The Ricketts need to shell out and send the starters on a much needed holiday to one of the Greek islands or Japan at the end of the year and the hitters and bullpen to, I don’t know… St Louis. 

Sorry budget only allows them to send the starters to Greek Isles on Halstead.

[chibears55]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

And yet somehow hes just one of 5 Cubs to have a wRC+ of over 100 in the month of may (Wisdom, Nico, Bellinger, and Morel being the other 4)

Which means nothing...

Guy has 17 hits in his last 100 ABs, he has been terrible. 

[JBears79]

Yeah im turning this off. This is just not fun to watch and a waste of time. They arent even competitive

[We Got The Whole 9]

That move by Counsell is a really weird one. Not a fan at all. Why not let Brown face Kelenic and put in Wesneski for the eighties that were to follow. 

 

 

[We Got The Whole 9]

1 minute ago, JBears79 said:

Yeah im turning this off. This is just not fun to watch and a waste of time. They arent even competitive

The game is 1-0 lol 

[WhyCantWeWin]

Hendricks up in the bullpen, wonder if he’ll close 

[UMFan83]

19 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Which means nothing...

Guy has 17 hits in his last 100 ABs, he has been terrible. 

Broken down into .133/.177/.167/.343 between April 21 and April 30 followed by .200/.323/.364/.687 in May.  Neither are good but one is unplayable, the other is bad but sadly one of the better hitters on this Cubs team in recent weeks which was my point.

Edited May 23, 2024 by UMFan83

[UMFan83]

3 feet short of a HR for Morel...just how things are going right now.

[chibears55]

9 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Broken down into .133/.177/.167/.343 between April 21 and April 30 followed by .200/.323/.364/.687 in May.  Neither are good but one is unplayable, the other is bad but sadly one of the better hitters on this Cubs team in recent weeks which was my point.

He like 6 for 40 in last 15 games including today with with 20 Ks, I don't know what you're seeing..

If that one of the better hitter on team, just shows how bad the team has been but doesn't make him good, he's still been terrible. 

 

If they had anyone in Iowa that was capable of hitting and play first at mlb level,  he'd be sent down.

Edited May 23, 2024 by chibears55

[UMFan83]

1 minute ago, chibears55 said:

He like 6 for 40 in last 15 games including today with with 20 Ks, I don't know what you're seeing..

If that one of the better hitter on team, just shows how bad the team has been but doesn't make him good, he's still been terrible. 

That was exactly my original point yeesh lol.  I never said he was hitting well right now, though 102 wRC+ is basically average.

Edited May 23, 2024 by UMFan83

[UMFan83]

...as Busch strikes out feebly on 3 pitches with 2 on and 2 outs lol

[UMFan83]

It's actually pretty incredible this team won 2 games on this homestand hitting collectively like Mastrobuoni

[We Got The Whole 9]

Letting a dude go out there and strike out half the time for a month 

[chibears55]

4 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

That was exactly my original point yeesh lol.  I never said he was hitting well right now, though 102 wRC+ is basically average.

I said he wasn't good, you replied about him being above 100 WRC, so I took that as you saying he was doing good.

Lol

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[Dfan25]

Michael Busch has a 34.9 k rate at the moment . That’s not going to work , especially with his defense at 1B. If this continues o wonder if the Cubs will target Christian Walker next offseason .

[UMFan83]

4 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

I said he wasn't good, you replied about him being above 100 WRC, so I took that as you saying he was doing good.

Lol

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100 wRC+ is average.  I don't create the statistics, but wRC+ is a pretty good measure of how effective a hitter has been.  Of course there are other statistics out there that do not make him look anything close to average so he's probably bad....just slightly less bad than like 7-8 other regular Cubs hitters.

He absolutely does not pass the eye test though.

Edited May 23, 2024 by UMFan83

[spaincubsfan]

48 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

This fing team wide slump is so freaking annoying.  Just looking for any sign of life.  We're not even getting like the one random feel good outlier offensive game right now.

This is one of the worst slumps since those rebuilding 2013-2014 teams. I mean it's horrendously bad, look at the 30 day splits (I know the sabermetrics peeps will skew it slightly upward with BABIP bad luck but these traditional stats are DEAD LAST):

 

 

Edited May 23, 2024 by spaincubsfan