Cardinals (Pallante) vs Cubs (Imanaga): 6/15/24, 1:20pm

[WhyCantWeWin]

1 minute ago, chibears55 said:

Cool, he has as many hits today as he had in his last 30 ABs 🤷‍♂️

His wRC+ before the game was 99 as well. So he was hitting below league. Nice to see him hit a bomb but hes been god awful 

[Tryptamine]

Didn't realize Liberatore was moved to the pen. Man did the shine come off of him quick.

[Tryptamine]

So, PCA isn't even going to swing anymore then?

[squally1313]

3 minutes ago, WhyCantWeWin said:

His wRC+ before the game was 99 as well. So he was hitting below league. Nice to see him hit a bomb but hes been god awful 

Do you guys like baseball

[WhyCantWeWin]

PCA needs to chill on the bunting 

[WhyCantWeWin]

Just now, squally1313 said:

Do you guys like baseball

Most days, yeah

[CubinNY]

My last year playing MSBL (Men’s Baseball League) I was on a team with a talent level that was well beyond mine. Every time I got to bat the coach made me bunt. 
 

Here’s to you PCA! We are brothers. 

[Eeyore]

I hope that the clown yelling boom doesn't have season tickets.

[BKHoo]

Wow the ump sucks.  But we will take it. 

[JHBulls]

Can’t blame an ump who needs to take a horsefeathers real quick.

[CubinNY]

Good win. Let’s start doing that more often 

[UMFan83]

Dammit Happ you ruined my “the Cubs have been literally completely incapable of taking a lead of larger than 2 runs for a month” stat. 
 

oh, umm I mean go Cubs yay

[Jason Ross]

12 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

My last year playing MSBL (Men’s Baseball League) I was on a team with a talent level that was well beyond mine. Every time I got to bat the coach made me bunt. 
 

Here’s to you PCA! We are brothers. 

MSBL unite.

[Andy]

Miller for closer

[Andy]

9 minutes ago, Eeyore said:

I hope that the clown yelling boom doesn't have season tickets.

Not the first day I've heard him this year, so he might

[BKHoo]

35 minutes ago, Andy said:

Miller for closer

Hey his pitches had movement. 

[BKHoo]

Amazing parity in the NL this year.  currently the Padres sit in the #2 WC position at 37-37.  The Mets are 2 games out of the WC at 32-37 and THERE ARE SEVEN TEAMS IN BETWEEN THOSE TWO CLUBS. 

That is crazy. 

[Stratos]

4 hours ago, Tryptamine said:

So, PCA isn't even going to swing anymore then?

Probably best.

[chibears55]

Might mean nothing but...

https://x.com/voiceofcohen2/status/1802146270053577031?t=QlDG3TXsbyF0OKatnvTmHA&s=19

[UMFan83]

I didn’t watch today so going through baseball savant to see what I missed. The 4 hardest hit balls of the day were all by the Cubs and those 4 batted balls produced 5 outs

 1. Morel - 109.2, .450 xBA, groundout

2. Suzuki - 106.8, .890 xBA, lineout

3. Hoerner, 103.5, .530 xBA, groundout

4. Tauchman, 103.5, .420 xBA, GIDP

Actually the Cubs had the 6 hardest hit balls, luckily 5 and 6 were both singles.

But as ****** as the Cubs have played, it seems like they’re also getting super unlucky. 
 

edit: that said Happ’s HR would have only been out in 2 other parks so I guess some luck there. 

Edited June 16, 2024 by UMFan83

[chibears55]

59 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

I didn’t watch today so going through baseball savant to see what I missed. The 4 hardest hit balls of the day were all by the Cubs and those 4 batted balls produced 5 outs

 1. Morel - 109.2, .450 xBA, groundout

2. Suzuki - 106.8, .890 xBA, lineout

3. Hoerner, 103.5, .530 xBA, groundout

4. Tauchman, 103.5, .420 xBA, GIDP

Actually the Cubs had the 6 hardest hit balls, luckily 5 and 6 were both singles.

But as ****** as the Cubs have played, it seems like they’re also getting super unlucky. 
 

edit: that said Happ’s HR would have only been out in 2 other parks so I guess some luck there. 

It happens like this all over the league though, especially the hard grounders, these teams nowadays know how to defense these hitters and are positioned almost perfectly. 

So these line drives that go right to an outfielder or hard grounders being right at a fielder isn't unlucky,  it's just good scouting by the opponents.

[Stratos]

2 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

I didn’t watch today so going through baseball savant to see what I missed. The 4 hardest hit balls of the day were all by the Cubs and those 4 batted balls produced 5 outs

 1. Morel - 109.2, .450 xBA, groundout

2. Suzuki - 106.8, .890 xBA, lineout

3. Hoerner, 103.5, .530 xBA, groundout

4. Tauchman, 103.5, .420 xBA, GIDP

Actually the Cubs had the 6 hardest hit balls, luckily 5 and 6 were both singles.

But as ****** as the Cubs have played, it seems like they’re also getting super unlucky. 
 

edit: that said Happ’s HR would have only been out in 2 other parks so I guess some luck there. 

I blame Jed Hoyer and Yan Gomes.

[mfcubs22]

1 hour ago, chibears55 said:

It happens like this all over the league though, especially the hard grounders, these teams nowadays know how to defense these hitters and are positioned almost perfectly. 

So these line drives that go right to an outfielder or hard grounders being right at a fielder isn't unlucky,  it's just good scouting by the opponents.

But we are #3 in largest difference between xBA and BA, #2 in xSLG and SLG, and #2 in xwOBA and wOBA. 
 

We’ve been bad, but also very unlucky. 

[chibears55]

1 hour ago, mfcubs22 said:

But we are #3 in largest difference between xBA and BA, #2 in xSLG and SLG, and #2 in xwOBA and wOBA. 
 

We’ve been bad, but also very unlucky. 

There's a difference between expectations and reality, even in baseball. 

 

[Jason Ross]

16 hours ago, WhyCantWeWin said:

His wRC+ before the game was 99 as well. So he was hitting below league. Nice to see him hit a bomb but hes been god awful 

God awful is a stretch. Firstly, a 99 wRC+ means he's been 1% worse than a league average hitter. That's a bit of a disappointment for someone who's been a 20% better than league average hitter the last two seasons, but "god awful"? No. 

Secondly, Happ has a 130 wRC+ over his last 103 PAs. That's assuredly not God awful. 

Happ had a rough April but has been well back to "normal Happ" for a bit.