Brewers (Priester) vs Cubs (Imanaga): 8/21/25, 1:20pm

[squally1313]

1 minute ago, Geographyhater8888 said:

Who’s ridiculous? He’s sitting at 567 since the all star break in 122 PAs. I’m pointing out how he’s been awful over the last month. Is that a ridiculous observation or are you referring to someone else?

I've got .597, but splitting hairs there.

In that stretch, his walk rate is significantly higher than his career average (16.4% to 10%) and his K rate is slightly better (23% to 25.1%). His BABIP over this stretch is .236, his career BABIP is .332. If he continues getting BABIP luck 100 points below his career average, I agree his results will continue to look bad. There's reason to believe it won't continue this way, and his expected wOBA being 25 points above his YTD wOBA probably backs that up. 

[We Got The Whole 9]

Nico Hoerner will never hit a Homer to dead center. His BA on flyballs to center has to be anemic.

[Cubbies1996]

Castro needs a better fitting helmet

[BigSlick]

Swanson with runners on…. We’re in trouble boys 

[squally1313]

There's the Andrew Vaughn all my white sox fan friends know so well

[UMFan83]

cmon Reese be handy

[squally1313]

41 pitches through 2 is the smallest of silver linings

[squally1313]

Stop letting Joey Ortiz appear even marginally competent at baseball

[UMFan83]

Its mildly humorous that we had the bases loaded and 2 outs for the spot Shaw usually bats in.

[UMFan83]

Honestly its kind of amazing that the Cubs have been able to mostly tread water in the 2nd half despite our 4 best hitters completely falling off a cliff.

[Cubbies1996]

Those 2 days off seem to have done nothing for Tucker 

[profisme]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

Its mildly humorous that we had the bases loaded and 2 outs for the spot Shaw usually bats in.

It is more than mildly sickening that Tucker absolutely refuses to drive the ball to left field and tries to pull EVERYTHING.

[mul21]

Yeah, I'm not buying this Tucker back in the lineup thing.  Same as before the break. 

[mul21]

Just now, profisme said:

It is more than mildly sickening that Tucker absolutely refuses to drive the ball to left field and tries to pull EVERYTHING.

He's not trying to pull everything.  His hand has slowed down his swing so he's starting earlier and is out in front of anything remotely off speed.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Kyle that was horsefeathers. That was a sinker low and away. Go with the pitch.

[mul21]

Top of the order: 23 pitches seen and one base runner in 6 PA. 

Other 6 guys: 29 pitches seen and 3 base runners in 6 PA.

[squally1313]

3 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Honestly its kind of amazing that the Cubs have been able to mostly tread water in the 2nd half despite our 4 best hitters completely falling off a cliff.

Very back of the math calculations but believe 2nd half Wrigley games are averaging 6.8 runs total, and the league average on team runs per game is around 4.4, so we're 2 runs below average. Obviously a small sample size but Wrigley is playing like the biggest pitchers park in history over the last month.

[Cubbies1996]

PCA has had an awful series 

[UMFan83]

8 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

Very back of the math calculations but believe 2nd half Wrigley games are averaging 6.8 runs total, and the league average on team runs per game is around 4.4, so we're 2 runs below average. Obviously a small sample size but Wrigley is playing like the biggest pitchers park in history over the last month.

But how much of that is the conditions and how much is it our hitters not performing?  Evidence supporting it being the conditions is that the other teams aren't exactly crushing the ball either (24 runs allowed in 8 games on this homestead).  But at the same time, we're not seeing an uptick of run scoring on the road either, for the Cubs or their opponents.

Only 2 games in August have had at least 1 team score more than 6 runs in a game - 8/9 the Cubs scored 9 at St Louis and 8/18 the Brewers scored 7 at Wrigley.  As much as the Cubs have regressed offensive, the pitching has largely picked up the slack

Edited August 21, 2025 by UMFan83

[We Got The Whole 9]

Is Pete gonna get to 30 HR, I am seriously questioning it. Will they ever just give him the take sign on 1st pitch? 

[We Got The Whole 9]

Good god Nico 

 

We are really bailing this dude out too much. 

[PeanutPunch33]

gotta get some runs 

[Cubbies1996]

lol atta boy Dansby 

[Cubbies1996]

1 minute ago, PeanutPunch33 said:

gotta get some runs 

Seems like all the good juju has run out. Hopefully I’m wrong!

[UMFan83]

We're in the 8th game of this homestand.  The Cubs have hit 3 total HRs - 1 each by Castro, Shaw and Caissie