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Phillies (Sanchez) vs Cubs (Taillon): 7/4/24, 1:20pm

Brock Beauchamp
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mfcubs22 College Ball

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3 minutes ago, Cubs206 said:

They changed up the lineup and lo and behold 

Who knew benching your best hitter was the key to scoring more runs?

chibears55 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

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36 minutes ago, Cubs206 said:

How much of it is 26 guys all regressing and failing or their coaching and scout staffs being completely unable to motivate, coach and correct these bums. Or all of the above. 
 

if an entire class flunks it could be the teacher. 

If a grown man who can make millions needs to be motivated to get up and play a game of baseball for 3 hours a day, then they need to find another profession.

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chibears55 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

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Getting close to the AS break, time to start getting that trade value up if you're on a last place team so you can be moved to a contender.. 😅

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Bertz Knoxville Smokies

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1 hour ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

As bad as the Catcher position has been, it takes a LOT of guys playing poorly to end up with an offense this bad.  Good teams can overcome a few players not hitting, but the Cubs have more than a few.  Swanson has been bad overall outside of a short hot streak.  Nico hasn't hit anywhere near as well as he needs to if he is going to be the long term answer at 2B.  Morel was supposed to hit enough to make up for his glove, but hasn't been hitting at all.

I don't know what makes nearly an entire offense perform below expectations, but if you listen to Steve Fifer from Milwaukee (who was on the Score last weekend), he blames Counsell and says he isn't a good offensive manager.  I'm certainly not buying that a manager has that much impact and I think his assessment was more sour grapes. 

Ultimately, this team's performance has to fall on Hoyer.  It is simply unacceptable for any team, let alone one with the payroll of this Cubs team, to be playing such awful baseball.

Cubs catchers have been 24 runs below average on offense coming into today.  Now league average offense from catcher isn't a layup, but the the 15th ranked team coming into today (the Phillies ironically) are at -2 runs.  So Cubs catchers are 22 runs worse than average.  Over 87 games that's almost exactly a quarter of a run per game. If you add a quarter of a run per game the Cubs go from 22nd to 15th.

The Cubs offensive problems aren't just catcher, but they're mostly catcher.

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