Cubs (Boyd) vs Brewers (Misiorowski): 7/28/25, 6:40pm

[Brandon Glick]

Well now this is just plain evil on the part of the scheduling system. Guess it should make for some fun baseball ahead of the deadline at least.

[squally1313]

fun horsefeathers game

[NorthsideAvenger]

More like Nsb .v. brewerfan.

[Bull]

You can’t script this high drama. Two best records in baseball (Toronto doesn’t exist), tied for first in the division heading into the trade deadline at a park the visiting team’s fans call Wrigley North. This is perfect and beautiful.

Edited July 28, 2025 by Bull

[Brian707]

1 minute ago, Bull said:

You can’t script this high drama. Two best records in baseball (Toronto doesn’t exist), tied for first in the division heading into the trade deadline at a park the visiting team’s fans call Wrigley North. This is perfect and beautiful.

I work less than an hour from Milwaukee. I think I might be coming down with an illness on Wednesday afternoon

[Bertz]

The Cubs are among the better teams in the league at handling velo.  Against pitches 98 MPH+

- 10th in xwOBA

- 11th lowest whiff rate

- 8th in hard hit rate

- 5th in barrel rate

Add in that Miz has generally been 5 and dive, and I don't think this is going to be as bad of a day for the offense as you'd think.

[UMFan83]

I think if the Cubs get swept they should probably sell Tucker before he gets to FA.

[Rcal10]

8 minutes ago, Bull said:

You can’t script this high drama. Two best records in baseball (Toronto doesn’t exist), tied for first in the division heading into the trade deadline at a park the visiting team’s fans call Wrigley North. This is perfect and beautiful.

Ok, how about two best teams in the United States? Canada isn’t our 51st state…..YET!!

[BigSlick]

This is what baseball's about baby. You gotta just enjoy this. 

I'm up in Door County this week and I'm definitely gonna get rowdy and annoying up here with Brewers fans.

[gflore34]

40 minutes ago, Bertz said:

The Cubs are among the better teams in the league at handling velo.  Against pitches 98 MPH+

- 10th in xwOBA

- 11th lowest whiff rate

- 8th in hard hit rate

- 5th in barrel rate

Add in that Miz has generally been 5 and dive, and I don't think this is going to be as bad of a day for the offense as you'd think.

Brewers took him out after 3.2 IP vs. the Mariners the other day, believe he, like Horton, is on an innings limit.  Cubs need to grind out at bats, make him throw a lot of pitches. 

[gflore34]

I was really hoping one for a trade yesterday to open up the possibility of skipping Rea.  If something happens today is skipping Rea still possible?

[Tryptamine]

3 days to the deadline and still nothing from Jed, I'm getting ready to be underwhelmed.

[squally1313]

5 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

I was really hoping one for a trade yesterday to open up the possibility of skipping Rea.  If something happens today is skipping Rea still possible?

I was going to bring this up in another thread, but unless things get real drastic in the next couple days, I don't really see a way out of Colin Rea as one of your five starters at least until September or so. I figure the first starter is to punt Brown down to the bullpen/back to AAA, and then the second one is probably going to be to give Horton a bit of an extended break, either through a fake injury/demotion shutdown or by putting him in the bullpen. Maybe you could pick one of those guys to piggyback with Rea to lessen the reliance on him not taxing the bullpen, but think we're stuck with him until either Taillon comes back or October.

[Rcal10]

12 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

I was going to bring this up in another thread, but unless things get real drastic in the next couple days, I don't really see a way out of Colin Rea as one of your five starters at least until September or so. I figure the first starter is to punt Brown down to the bullpen/back to AAA, and then the second one is probably going to be to give Horton a bit of an extended break, either through a fake injury/demotion shutdown or by putting him in the bullpen. Maybe you could pick one of those guys to piggyback with Rea to lessen the reliance on him not taxing the bullpen, but think we're stuck with him until either Taillon comes back or October.

Maybe Assad comes back and starts. I know that is basically the same thing. 

[gflore34]

10 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

I was going to bring this up in another thread, but unless things get real drastic in the next couple days, I don't really see a way out of Colin Rea as one of your five starters at least until September or so. I figure the first starter is to punt Brown down to the bullpen/back to AAA, and then the second one is probably going to be to give Horton a bit of an extended break, either through a fake injury/demotion shutdown or by putting him in the bullpen. Maybe you could pick one of those guys to piggyback with Rea to lessen the reliance on him not taxing the bullpen, but think we're stuck with him until either Taillon comes back or October.

Thought I read something about Taillon coming back within the next two weeks.

[gflore34]

2 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

Maybe Assad comes back and starts. I know that is basically the same thing. 

Assad is maybe, slight upgrade over Rea?  Nothing significant, I agree, they're basically the same.

[gflore34]

23 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

3 days to the deadline and still nothing from Jed, I'm getting ready to be underwhelmed.

Unless he's working on something big, a rental, such as Soroka, could have been done by now.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

1 hour ago, UMFan83 said:

I think if the Cubs get swept they should probably sell Tucker before he gets to FA.

That's a little dark.

[gocubs218]

14 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

Unless he's working on something big, a rental, such as Soroka, could have been done by now.

There have been exactly *checks notes* zero pitchers traded so far this deadline. This isn’t a Jed problem.

[mul21]

22 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

Assad is maybe, slight upgrade over Rea?  Nothing significant, I agree, they're basically the same.

The biggest difference for me is the home runs.  Assad is at 1.1/9 and Rea at 1.7/9 for their careers and that matters a decent amount.

[UMFan83]

8 minutes ago, Ding Dong Johnson said:

That's a little dark.

Always gotta plan ahead.  But I was taking from this "viral" Cubs twitter post earlier this year:

[chibears55]

Time for the cubs to put their big boy pants on and take care of Buisness on their own.

They have their top 2 starters going and Rea who has been pretty good til his last start, all the hitters are healthy, so no excuses , just go win ballgames and take back control of the Division. 

[PeanutPunch33]

Assad is criminally underrated by the board.. every year he's been here he's had an ERA under 4, outpacing his FIP by a decent amount every year.  This is also the best defense he'll get to play in front of.  

Now, is he ready to handle a starter's workload after such a long layaway.  Probably not, but that's a different question. 

He's a good player.  He's not only better than Rea, he's better than Taillon 

Edited July 28, 2025 by PeanutPunch33

[gflore34]

9 minutes ago, gocubs218 said:

There have been exactly *checks notes* zero pitchers traded so far this deadline. This isn’t a Jed problem.

Didn't the Mets trade for Soto (LHP)?  Or was he someone signed off the waiver wire?

Edited July 28, 2025 by gflore34

[mul21]

1 minute ago, PeanutPunch33 said:

Assad is criminally underrated by the board.. every year he's been here he's had an ERA under 4, outpacing his FIP by a decent amount every year.  This is also the best defense he'll get to play in front of.  

Now, is he ready to handle a starter's workload after such a long layaway.  Probably not, but that's a different question. 

He's a good player.  He's not only better than Rea, he's better than Taillon 

Let's slow down there a little bit.  He's been solid for the Cubs, no doubt, but the way he's stranded runners probably isn't sustainable so he's due for some regression there.  We also haven't seen how he comes back from the myriad injuries he's had since the middle of last season, so he's no guarantee from that standpoint either.