Cubs (Taillon) vs Padres (Waldron): 4/29/26, 3:10pm

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

38 minutes ago, JHBulls said:

I do wish Sut would tone it down. He doesn’t need to make it sound like every run scored is the greatest run scored in history and he doesn’t need to say stuff like “He’s done that his entire” when a career bench player comes intro a game and makes a good play in the field. I am sure he means well, but he exaggerates a lot. 

I have no doubt he means well. He's just a big dumb idiot

[I owned a Suzuki]

42 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

I have no doubt he means well. He's just a big dumb idiot

He really seems like a great dude...to bad his awful color commentary gets on my nerves

[javy knows my name]

Sut is a genuinely jolly guy with a drinking problem who loves the Cubs. I'm starting to appreciate him the way I appreciated Santo at the end. 

Boog's best shot at him was when they showed somebody's stats at #9 and Sut goes "Man, he might even be top 10 in baseball!" and Boog with a "Yes, we've confirmed that #9 is within the top 10" and Sut laughed at himself.

Pat and Santo vibes. I'm psyched for JD to be back. I don't dislike Sut. Not his fault he was born with an IQ of 60

[NorthsideAvenger]

Did we ever found out why the Padres were treating the Cubs hitters as target practice, or were they simply being pricks?

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

2 minutes ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

Did we ever found out why the Padres were treating the Cubs hitters as target practice, or were they simply being pricks?

Craig was asked and he kind of glossed over it. Said they were mostly non-fastballs that slipped but I'm not sure that's accurate.

[javy knows my name]

51 minutes ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

Did we ever found out why the Padres were treating the Cubs hitters as target practice, or were they simply being pricks?

The most egregious were two at Seiya's head in the same PA last night, but then the next one was ridiculously off the plate to the outside. I think their control sucks.

I also think that given the events of the previous two days, the one that hit Nico in the noggin should have been a warning.

Not to stave off retaliation from the Cubs, but to be like, that's enough, get relievers in there who can locate

Edited 12 hours ago by javy knows my name

[Geographyhater8888]

8 hours ago, Cubs420psd said:

3-3 against two really good teams on the road with a bull pen on life support is really solid.

 

Gotta give this team props, being 7 games over .500 with the biblical pitching injuries they have had is pretty damn impressive. 

It’s nice having your 7-9 hitters driving in all 5 runs too.

Edited 7 hours ago by Geographyhater8888

[Bertz]

The Athletic makes it sound like the team is going to activate Palencia tomorrow and skip a rehab outing

[CubUgly]

10 hours ago, javy knows my name said:

Sut is a genuinely jolly guy with a drinking problem who loves the Cubs. I'm starting to appreciate him the way I appreciated Santo at the end. 

Boog's best shot at him was when they showed somebody's stats at #9 and Sut goes "Man, he might even be top 10 in baseball!" and Boog with a "Yes, we've confirmed that #9 is within the top 10" and Sut laughed at himself.

Pat and Santo vibes. I'm psyched for JD to be back. I don't dislike Sut. Not his fault he was born with an IQ of 60

Sutt is kinda like the lifelong friend you genuinely love, but after about 5 minutes you can't be around him anymore at the party and you have to avoid him the rest of the evening. 

[Bertz]

The Cubs are leading baseball in hitter fWAR right now.  It's basically a rounding error between them and the Dodgers, but there's a sizable gap before the Braves at #3.

[We Got The Whole 9]

1 minute ago, Bertz said:

The Cubs are leading baseball in hitter fWAR right now.  It's basically a rounding error between them and the Dodgers, but there's a sizable gap before the Braves at #3.

Yeah pretty awesome. Slightly concerning that we are markedly out performing our xwoba?

[squally1313]

Yeah after spending most of the second half last year predicting a positive regression that never really came, it's fitting that we're now 17 wOBA points above where we're expected to be. Not that it's really a cause for concern, 3rd in wOBA and 8th in xwOBA with where our baserunning and defense should end up is still plenty elite. Haven't gotten much in terms of accrued value from baserunning, I would assume mostly because PCA forgot how to steal bases, but the defense is fourth in baseball and should really only go up from there. 

[Bertz]

11 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Yeah pretty awesome. Slightly concerning that we are markedly out performing our xwoba?

Yeah there's probably some luck there.  But there's some stuff that's not too:

- They are above average at pulling fly balls.  Not elite lack last year but still above average

- It's generally a fast team that's aggressive on their feet, which nets you some extra bases (Shaw's double yesterday for instance)

- Wrigley has I believe in aggregate played hitter friendly thus far.  Obviously that's a knock on the repeatability of the offense's topline production, but on a team level any credit you take from the offense you have to equally give back to the pitching staff

I'd guess if you de-lucked them they'd still be top 2 but closer to the Braves at 3 than the Dodgers at 1?

[Geographyhater8888]

All this while Busch has a sub 600 OPS. Reds are still somehow in first at 19-11 with a -5 run differential and almost 6 less war than the Cubs.

[CubUgly]

31 minutes ago, Geographyhater8888 said:

All this while Busch has a sub 600 OPS. Reds are still somehow in first at 19-11 with a -5 run differential and almost 6 less war than the Cubs.

You would think water will find its level eventually in this regard, but we've seen years and examples where it never does.   Which is why some folks have a hard time leaning all in on analytics. 

[17 Seconds]

9 minutes ago, CubUgly said:

You would think water will find its level eventually in this regard, but we've seen years and examples where it never does.   Which is why some folks have a hard time leaning all in on analytics. 

they suggest busch will snap out of it, that's all. if he doesn't, that's not a slight against analytics

[sneakypower]

new pet peeve is the determination with which Sutcliffe will never learn to pronounce Ballesteros even remotely correct

[We Got The Whole 9]

21 minutes ago, CubUgly said:

You would think water will find its level eventually in this regard, but we've seen years and examples where it never does.   Which is why some folks have a hard time leaning all in on analytics. 

Playing DA, Busch would not be the first player to have a big year and never quite reach those levels again. However hes already shown signs of turning things around and for some reason people aren't noticing. Hes at 114 over the last 2 weeks. 

[Hrubes20]

16 minutes ago, sneakypower said:

new pet peeve is the determination with which Sutcliffe will never learn to pronounce Ballesteros even remotely correct

Holy crap, yes.  Drove me nuts.

[chibears55]

55 minutes ago, sneakypower said:

new pet peeve is the determination with which Sutcliffe will never learn to pronounce Ballesteros even remotely correct

Kinda like Harry with Andres Gallllllaaaaaaarrŕaaaaaaagasssss

Lmao 🤣 

I miss Harry lol

[CubUgly]

1 hour ago, 17 Seconds said:

they suggest busch will snap out of it, that's all. if he doesn't, that's not a slight against analytics

I was speaking more about the run differential thing than Busch actually.