Reds (Lowder) vs Cubs (Imanaga): 5/7/26, 1:20pm

[Derwood]

This ump is maybe the worst I've seen this year

[We Got The Whole 9]

That pitch was nasty. Gtfoh you no neck dufus.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

[BKHoo]

7 pitches.  It should NEVER have come to that. 

[Bobson Dugnutt]

During the postgame last night, Cole Wright said the cubs have five 7-0 home stands ever. Now they have six. Two of those are this year.

[Rcal10]

2 minutes ago, abuck1220 said:

i thought the cubs sucked at challenges, but the reds have been brutal late in games with not challenging. 

Cubs are one of the better teams at challenges, percentage wise. But Amaya not very good. He was the catcher in the game Boyd and him made bad challenges. He missed both today. One as a hitter and the other catching. 

[Irrelevant Dude]

Tied for the best record in MLB.

[chibears55]

W..... 15 straight home, 9 in a row, 19-3

Keep it Rolling 

[Tryptamine]

I wonder if Brewer fans are saying, oh this is what it was like for Cub fans when we went on that horsefeathers run last year

[Bertz]

111 win pace by the way

[Rcal10]

14 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

W..... 15 straight home, 9 in a row, 19-3

Keep it Rolling 

All while trying to navigate a pitching staff decimated with injuries. Amazing! 

[Outshined_One]

I know The Regression Monster is going to hit at some point, but man, it's huge to see them building up this cushion despite the pitching staff's woes.

[abuck1220]

18 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

Cubs are one of the better teams at challenges, percentage wise. But Amaya not very good. He was the catcher in the game Boyd and him made bad challenges. He missed both today. One as a hitter and the other catching. 

i was thinking cubs batters are bad at challenges. i know kelly is good at them as a catcher. 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

 

[NorthsideAvenger]

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[Bertz]

28 minutes ago, Bertz said:

111 win pace by the way

Corollary to this:

Go .500 from here and you win 88 games, which is almost certainly a playoff spot

[chibears55]

First move for bullpen help/depth

 

[BKHoo]

Somehow the NL central is 29 games over 500.  It’s unbelievable that all teams are > 500 and it’s by far the best division in baseball so far. 

[JBears79]

Is it time to move Ben Brown back into the rotation? Hes really bounced back and im eating crow on that. Innings are available there now.

[chibears55]

6 hours ago, Rcal10 said:

Why would they trade for a pitcher like Brown/Assad/Rea when they have 3 of them already? If all they are going to do is get a guy like those guys why not wait it out a little and when Theilbar comes back they don’t have to add a rotation starter. They already have him with the combo of Brown/Rea/Assad. 
If Theilbar and/or Harvey is weeks away, maybe they do have to add someone now. But if either is closer to 8-10 days they can probably piece things together a little longer. If all they are going to get is a guy like the guys they have for that spot. I would rather wait if only 7-10 days. 

Rea already part of rotation,  Brown has been a great asset to the bullpen,  and Assad has been beneficial as a SP depth / bullpen arm. 

So, you keep what been working with those 3 and go shopping for a guy who can hold it down for however long needed as the 5th starter.

Can't just hope guys will be returning in 2-3 weeks and just try to stay afloat with who they have until then, they take Brown and Assad out of the role theyre doing now, that means they need to weaken the pen and SP depth they have left and will need to add guys like Hollowell, Thornton,  etc type to fill out the pen until the injured returns. 

[bukie]

1 hour ago, Bertz said:

111 win pace by the way

And that's just the home games.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Wish we could get Sonny Gray

[Rcal10]

9 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Rea already part of rotation,  Brown has been a great asset to the bullpen,  and Assad has been beneficial as a SP depth / bullpen arm. 

So, you keep what been working with those 3 and go shopping for a guy who can hold it down for however long needed as the 5th starter.

Can't just hope guys will be returning in 2-3 weeks and just try to stay afloat with who they have until then, they take Brown and Assad out of the role theyre doing now, that means they need to weaken the pen and SP depth they have left and will need to add guys like Hollowell, Thornton,  etc type to fill out the pen until the injured returns. 

I don’t have an issue with adding a pitcher. Just want either a real starter or a real pen arm(and move Brown to the rotation). I don’t want another guy like Brown/Rea/Assad, in the sense that each are spot starters/multi inning guys. 
Get a BOR starter and leave Ben alone in the pen. Or get a higher leverage pen arm and stretch Ben out. 

[Post Count Padder]

Is there anything to Ferguson or just another dart throw for the pen? Older reliever who wasn't too bad the last couple years but awful this year in AAA and MLB.

[Tryptamine]

Are they not grabbing Edwards and Chafin because they want something temporary and both of those guys are going to want permanent deals where things get really crowded once the other pen arms return?