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

[Cubs420psd]

6 minutes ago, CUBDOM4life said:

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 

I used to go back and forth on who to blame, the front office or ownership, and you know what I'm realizing? They both suck.

 

Ricketts is a cheap piece of trash whose only goal is to make sure Daddy is happy and that his real estate empire around the park is churning money. As long as those two things are fine the only pressure he will get is from the fans and he obviously doesn't care about that.

 

Jed is Theo's butt buddy who climbed Theo's success to a job he doesn't deserve. You have more resources than any team in your division by a mile yet the Cubs havnt made the playoffs since covid, it's a disgrace. I don't think Ricketts gives him as many resources as he possibly could but he's given him enough to field better squads than what we have seen the past 3 seasons. Oh and evidently he has no damn clue on how to build a bullpen.

[UMFan83]

22 minutes ago, JD94 said:

started out really bad but ended up being good down the stretch. There is way too many JAG’s in this pen though.

Yeah this happens basically every year because Jed fills up the bullpen with a bunch of question mark filled veterans and young guys with upside and it take him 2+ months to figure out which ones are good. In 2023 we struggled to start the season, only managed to identify 3 arms that were reliable and wore them out in the summer, thus we blew a bunch of games in September and missed the playoffs by 1 game. 
 

last year the pen (and offense) dug us such a hole that by the time we figured it out even a solid second half couldn’t get us back into the race. 
 

happened in 2022 as well though they weren’t good enough for us to care. 
 

2021 was the last time we came into the season with a solid back end of the pen with Tepera, Chafin and Kimbrel and we traded all 3 away because the rest of the team wasn’t good enough. 

Edited March 30, 2025 by UMFan83

[Cubs420psd]

7 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

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

This Is the guy that Jed and Carter identified and traded for as the first move to fix the pen.

 

A guy who didn't even make the initial 26 and has been terrible since the second he got here. What an eye for talent! 

[Cubs206]

34 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Lmao, where the guy that said this was a good pen the other day when I said most will be gone by June

I went to games in Mesa and every one of them they had the lead and the bullpen got hit hard and they lost, so I am not surprised 

[gflore34]

1 minute ago, Cubs420psd said:

I used to go back and forth on who to blame, the front office or ownership, and you know what I'm realizing? They both suck.

 

Ricketts is a cheap piece of trash whose only goal is to make sure Daddy is happy and that his real estate empire around the park is churning money. As long as those two things are fine the only pressure he will get is from the fans and he obviously doesn't care about that.

 

Jed is Theo's butt buddy who climbed Theo's success to a job he doesn't deserve. You have more resources than any team in your division by a mile yet the Cubs havnt made the playoffs since covid, it's a disgrace. I don't think Ricketts gives him as many resources as he possibly could but he's given him enough to field better squads than what we have seen the past 3 seasons. Oh and evidently he has no damn clue on how to build a bullpen.

Of the last off season acquisitions the only BP arm I'd consider keeping is Thielbar.  Even though he could not throw many strikes today he's got decent stuff.  I think he'll be okay, don't have any such hopeful notions for the likes of Pressly, Rea or Morgan.

[JD94]

Getting Brasier, Assad, & Miller back should help. Not sure what Horton’s timeline is, but he can potentially help at some point this year as well. 

[ToolDRT]

I mean we all would have taken a split before this series started. So there’s that. But damn, the last few years they just have a way of losing in the most heartbreaking and demoralizing ways possible. 

Edited March 30, 2025 by ToolDRT

[Wilson A2000]

Why is Luke Little not on the big league roster?

[JD94]

Just now, ToolDRT said:

I mean we all would have taken a split before this series started. So there’s that. But damn, the last few years they just have a way of losing in the most heartbreaking and demoralizing way possible. 

Personally it’s not the L’s that bothered me… it’s the way we lost, especially today. Bullpen has looked atrocious basically all spring and through the first 6 games. This team isn’t really good enough to be blowing 4 run leads very often in the late innings. I mean it will obviously happen to everyone, but it would be different if it was proven guys struggling. Most of these guys are either old, unproven, or really mid as it is, so when they don’t perform, it’s magnified. 

[muntjack]

What's Adbert up to? 

[NorthsideAvenger]

15 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

Every horsefeathers year

We are sounding like the Phillies of a few years ago.

[KCCub]

 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

2 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

Why is Luke Little not on the big league roster?

He's being brought along slowly after his lat injury, he didn't make his first ST appearance until after the Tokyo series.

[gflore34]

2 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

Why is Luke Little not on the big league roster?

What about Palencia?

[JD94]

1 minute ago, muntjack said:

What's Adbert up to? 

Recovering from TJ

[Irrelevant Dude]

1 minute ago, KCCub said:

 

That's a new one, a guy warming up too much that he is unavailable for the next game.

[profisme]

2 minutes ago, JD94 said:

Recovering from TJ

But he only had that in one elbow right? He could throw with the other arm if needed.

[Cubs420psd]

5 minutes ago, muntjack said:

What's Adbert up to? 

Probably hurt.

[Cubs420psd]

19 minutes ago, muntjack said:

 

Hey I wonder if that BP arm we got in the Belli trade could help, wonder what happened to that guy? 

[jersey cubs fan]

Looks like this bullpen may not be good, folks

[gflore34]

1 minute ago, jersey cubs fan said:

Looks like this bullpen may not be good, folks

After blowing x number of very winnable games, it'll come together, however, the early blown games will cost the Cubs later.

[Soul]

Yeah last year the bullpen rounded into form but too late.  The season was tanked already we just didn’t know it.  We make the playoffs if the BP doesn’t blow up multiple games earlier.

Doom boner for sure but this feels exactly the same.  Cobbling together a serviceable BP can’t be easy but come on.  It needs to happen for a guy who wants to call himself a GM in MLB.

[Irrelevant Dude]

3 minutes ago, Soul said:

Cobbling together a serviceable BP can’t be easy but come on.  It needs to happen for a guy who wants to call himself a GM in MLB.

Or, I don't know, maybe Jed has been here long enough that he can take responsibility for not being able to develop reliable bullpen arms from within the organization.

[gflore34]

5 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Or, I don't know, maybe Jed has been here long enough that he can take responsibility for not being able to develop reliable bullpen arms from within the organization.

Horton and Little could potentially help, but, I've no faith that they're alive let alone throw a pitch or another pitch at the major league level.

[Wilson A2000]

1 hour ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

That's a new one, a guy warming up too much that he is unavailable for the next game.

You’ve never been dry humped too much, have you?