Cubs (Taillon) vs Cardinals (McGreevy): 6/24/25, 6:45pm

[CubUgly]

9 hours ago, cubfansince77 said:

Yes and no...you are spot on about Javy/KB/Rizzo and he's also made great decisions on bringing in Suzuki and Shota, but ya gotta remember that Schwarber was allowed to walk which has been mostly horrible for us. 

 

For the Schwarber thing - yes, it's easy in hindsight....but at the time, there was not all that much angst about it in my memory.

At the time his market was about as bad as it was ever in his career, he was really bad that Covid 60 games.  I have no clue, but I'm willing to bet they would have taken any decent offers had they gotten any, I'm wondering if they did.

He ended up signing an one year show me deal with the Nats for $8 million so it wasn't like teams were knocking down the door for him in free agency. 

[mul21]

12 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

I haven't seen it mentioned, so maybe it is just me or maybe I missed it when people did mention it.  But did the homer to left look like a ball that Suzuki could have caught had he went to the spot instead of running around lost as to where the ball was? It looked like it just cleared the wall. Guys get gloves over the wall in St.l. To me it didn’t look like it would have even been that high a jump to get it. Did anyone else see that or am I just wrong and it cleared by a lot? I am not blaming him for not catching it. Even if he went straight back it would have had to be a nice play. I am just frustrated on them losing because they didn’t play a clean game. Cardinals bad fielding right fielder made 2 nice plays. Couldn't we make one? And maybe know the outs in a inning. 

I said PCA would have caught it if he was in LF, but that's a pretty high defensive bar to clear.  I don't think there's many guys who make that play, especially because that ball just kept carrying even though it didn't appear to be all that well struck off the bat. 

[Derwood]

He was pretty twisted up, so it was hard to tell. He certainly didn't break towards the wall right away, as he got a bad read on the ball. He's not a very good LF. Happ might have had a chance

[Rcal10]

3 hours ago, Derwood said:

He was pretty twisted up, so it was hard to tell. He certainly didn't break towards the wall right away, as he got a bad read on the ball. He's not a very good LF. Happ might have had a chance

Yep, that is my point. He played it terribly. And it didn’t look that far over the wall. Had he gone straight back to where the ball ended up, based on it just clearing and seeing guys can get gloves higher than the wall, I feel he could have had a play on it. Sure, would have been a very good catch. But sometimes you need to do something very good to win a game. 

Edited June 25, 2025 by Rcal10