Angels (Soriano) vs Cubs (Taillon): 3/31/26, 6:40pm

[chibears55]

5 hours ago, BKHoo said:

It sure seems like our bench seems to suck every year, doesn’t it? 

Cause Hoyer goes the cheap dumpster dive route when looking for bench guys, hoping to catch lightning in a bottle.

Yes I've complained about the bench the last couple years, not because im looking for 5 guys that can hit 300, but because good successful teams need guys off that bench that they can count on to give them successful ABs more times then not when called upon.

They started the last couple seasons with terrible players like Madrigal, Cooper, Burti, and Brujan but eventually end up replacing them and ended up with 1 guy playing well.

You'd like to have 1 or 2 of your bench guys with an at least 670-700 OPS

Cubs main bench guys in 2024 with 100+ PA

Mastrobuoni .470  Wisdom .629

Tauchman  .723  

Cubs main bench guys in 2025 with 100+PA

Berti .493 Castro .485 McGuire .688

Turner .602

Outside of backup Catcher and Mo, Shaw can be a high 600 guy if his power stays up, outside of him, i dont see anyone else that will even reach 600 OPS for this season. 

 

[Geographyhater8888]

13 hours ago, Bertz said:

 

The show tends to have damn near every pitch name available, and the way the make it matter is they use it is to break out which direction it moves.  For instance if you look at a clock a running fastball would move towards 3 o clock, a 2-seamer towards 4 o clock, and a sinker towards 5 o clock.  But realistically to your point those are all just variations of the same pitch.

Nice. I remember the clock hands  from playing MVP baseball 2005, I’m curious  how The Show  27 classifies Browns ambitious sinker. The eyes say running fastball, 

 

 

Edited April 2 by Geographyhater8888

[Bull]

On 3/31/2026 at 6:35 PM, Derwood said:

PTR making the unpaid intern do social media

The Gen Z intern would do much better. This is being posted by Crane Kennedys 65 year old secretary.