Cubs (Boyd) vs Diamondbacks (Rodriguez, E.): 3/30/25, 3:10pm

[Derwood]

Just now, Dfan25 said:

Pearson throws 100

Just not in the strike zone

[soccer10k]

5 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

Cubs BP, so far this season, 22.1IP, 18 ER. 

22 2/3 IP, 21 ER now.

[Dfan25]

4 minutes ago, SpongeWorthy said:

morgan has given up almost half of the earned runs as he gave up all last season

Morgan got extremely lucky last year . Jed traded for him because he cost just over a million dollars . 

[gflore34]

7 minutes ago, BKHoo said:

It’s the same BS as last year. 

And the year before, sign/trade for a bunch of bargain bin relievers, get ripped, blow games.  Rinse repeat, rinse repeat, rinse repeat.  I've had it with this cheap-ass ownership and their minion in Jed.

Edited March 30, 2025 by gflore34

[Irrelevant Dude]

2 minutes ago, WhyCantWeWin said:

Definitely smart giving Rea 5 mil this offseason 

Jed prefers to give a bad pitcher $5M rather than spend $8-10M on a good pitcher.  That's money right in his boss' pocket, and his performance incentives are all tied to cost savings.

[muntjack]

1 minute ago, Dfan25 said:

Pearson throws 100

Neely had a 14 K/9 with a good BB rate. 

[UMFan83]

All that hitting and Marte of all people managed to make 2 outs that inning

[Dfan25]

1 minute ago, Derwood said:

Just not in the strike zone

I don’t remember Neely looking all that great ( small sample of course ) . I wouldn’t bet on Jack Neely saving the pen 

[Cubs420psd]

3 minutes ago, WhyCantWeWin said:

Definitely smart giving Rea 5 mil this 

Overpaying bum ass vets? It's the Jed special.

[imb]

3 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Just not in the strike zone

Real monkeys paw scenario when we started demanding velocity out of the pen

[CUBDOM4life]

3 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Jed prefers to give a bad pitcher $5M rather than spend $8-10M on a good pitcher.  That's money right in his boss' pocket, and his performance incentives are all tied to cost savings.

Jed has to build for depth rather than individual performance. The Cubs franchise doesn’t bring in enough revenue for Ricketts to justify spending at or above the luxury tax.

Edited March 30, 2025 by CUBDOM4life

[Cubs420psd]

2 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Jed prefers to give a bad pitcher $5M rather than spend $8-10M on a good pitcher.  That's money right in his boss' pocket, and his performance incentives are all tied to cost savings.

Yep the so called life long fan billionaire whose team just got a $4.6 billion valuation can't be bothered to spend too much.

 

He's got his real estate projects to pay for.

[Derwood]

2 minutes ago, CUBDOM4life said:

Jed has to build for depth rather than individual performance. The Cubs franchise doesn’t bring in enough revenue for Ricketts to justify spending at or above the luxury tax.

I hope this is sarcasm

[CUBDOM4life]

1 minute ago, Cubs420psd said:

Yep the so called life long fan billionaire whose team just got a $4.6 billion valuation can't be bothered to spend too much.

 

He's got his real estate projects to pay for.

Yep. Ricketts is the problem. Cubs games are not only expensive for us to attend but they’re expensive for us to subscribe to on Marquee and watch. He takes every extra dollar and shoves it in his pocket 

[CUBDOM4life]

1 minute ago, Derwood said:

I hope this is sarcasm

It is

[muntjack]

6 minutes ago, Dfan25 said:

I don’t remember Neely looking all that great ( small sample of course ) . I wouldn’t bet on Jack Neely saving the pen 

Doesn't need to save the pen but he struck out 37% of hitters and walked 8.5%.  It's not like we don't have room for that. 

[UMFan83]

Cubs pen has pitched in 23 innings this year:

3 innings with 0 hitters reaching

20 innings with at least 1 hitter reaching

14 innings with 2+ hitters reaching

[Soul]

So bullpen still not fixed.

[Derwood]

2 minutes ago, Soul said:

So bullpen still not fixed.

Way worse, actually

[JD94]

I didn’t like the bullpen coming into the season and it’s even worse than I imagined it would be. It is just a 6 game sample, so there’s time for it to straighten out. I mean they won’t be this bad. Last year was similar iirc… started out really bad but ended up being good down the stretch. There is way too many JAG’s in this pen though.

I don’t know what the answer is. I imagine the conversation is basically let it ride for now. Again, it won’t be this bad. I’m not sure going and grabbing Robertson is the answer. There’s a reason 30 teams are saying “no thanks.” Maybe it’s the money he seeks. Maybe they believe he’s not effective anymore. Likely the money though. 

[CubinNY]

Every horsefeathers year

[Wilson A2000]

Eli Morgan gave up 9 ERs last year in 42 innings. He gave up 6 ERs today.

[17 Seconds]

bye jed

[UMFan83]

3 minutes ago, Soul said:

So bullpen still not fixed.

You’d think after missing the playoffs by 1 game in 2023 after the pen blew like 10 games in September and then having a pen so bad that they dug a hole the Cubs couldn’t get out last year of we’d do everything possible to ensure at least an average pen. I know they threw a bunch of money at a couple guys but they didn’t take it but horsefeathers

[Irrelevant Dude]

1 minute ago, JD94 said:

I don’t know what the answer is.

The answer is probably trading away prospects at the deadline for short term bullpen help, rather than just having spent money for it in the off-season.