Cubs (Rea) vs White Sox (Fedde): 5/17/26, 1:10pm

[JHBulls]

Another “these things happen to pitchers” post. Today was the third time this year Paul Skenes has given up 5 runs in an outing. 

[We Got The Whole 9]

What's the best path to take for parking by Wrigley ? Park and take the red line?

[chibears55]

25 minutes ago, JHBulls said:

 
First we need to find out how many years Mr. “Multiyear contract” Hoyer has left. 

Im guessing 5, and I know it not likely Ricketts would even consider letting him go.

Just dont care for the way he puts together a roster, especially the bullpen,  hate needing to wait a couple months to weed out the crap before replacing them with someone decent. 

[chibears55]

Cubs claimed Christian Roa

Guess he's a claimed reject that gonna replace one of the crap getting weeded out.

[Rcal10]

4 hours ago, chibears55 said:

Or firing Hoyer?

 

 

They are t firing Hoyer and it is a  stupid idea to consider it. 

[UMFan83]

Just saw a replay of the walk off HR and it doesn’t even look like a walk off because the Sox player hit it basically into a sea of Cubs fans lol

[Nolansomebody]

Watched highlights from today on YouTube and the defense looked awful. 
Probably not a good omen heading into the Brewers series.

Edited Monday at 03:04 AM by Nolansomebody

[chibears55]

1 hour ago, Rcal10 said:

They are t firing Hoyer and it is a  stupid idea to consider it. 

Did you miss the 2nd  post above yours

Edited Monday at 03:16 AM by chibears55

[Stratos]

Cubs pen is arse.

[Stratos]

Swanson seeing over 40% breaking balls this year and he can't hit them vs RHP.  Seiya can't either.  Sox pumping them all weekend.

Edited Monday at 07:33 AM by Stratos

[Geographyhater8888]

Cubs wRC+ with runners in scoring position is down from 117 in 2025 to 99 this season so far and down from 111 from 23-25.

Edited Monday at 10:31 AM by Geographyhater8888

[Geographyhater8888]

13 hours ago, Derwood said:

Team takes a lot of meatball pitches

Guys always seem to be in 2-strike counts

Nobody can hit offspeed pitches

Busch, PCA, etc. are regressing

 

Someone has to pay

The entire hitting approach seems more passive. The walk rate is up by 3% from a year ago for what it’s worth.

Edited Monday at 10:59 AM by Geographyhater8888

[Geographyhater8888]

4 hours ago, Stratos said:

Cubs pen is arse.

The starting pitchers struggle to last 5 innings so we have an already injured bullpen that’s also taxed. We miss Keller and Pomeranz badly in addition to 3 weeks of no Theilbar. This has been a long time coming. Tread water as long as possible until we get some reinforcements.

Edited Monday at 11:30 AM by Geographyhater8888

[chibears55]

5 hours ago, Stratos said:

Cubs pen is arse.

They have a terrible pen, but it also magnified more because the SP cant go 5 innings.

 

[Rcal10]

40 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

They have a terrible pen, but it also magnified more because the SP cant go 5 innings.

 

Right. Which is also a due to several injuries to the rotation and the pen. They have played without 2/5 of their rotation much of the year. They have had pen arms out all season. Of the original pen arms, when healthy, Maton is the only one that has consistently sucked. That was the miss at this point. And he was the safest pick. Rolison shouldn’t even be in the pen, but for injuries. The pen, if it was able to stay more healthy than it has, wasn’t  a terrible pen coming into the season. But it can’t overcome 2 injuries to the rotation, forcing pen arms to start, and 5 injuries to the actual pen. Plus injuries to guys in the minors who would have been counted on to come up and fill the pen. No team has the depth to withstand the amount of injuries the Cubs staff has had without cracks starting to show. 

[Andy]

13 hours ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

What's the best path to take for parking by Wrigley ? Park and take the red line?

Probably not the greatest thread for it but if you don't want to pay and don't mind walking a mile or so, you can usually find free parking in the little neighborhood streets north of the Clark/Southport intersection. If you don't want to walk, I believe the Cubs have free remote parking with bus service for night and weekend games - never used it so I don't know any details, but they mention it during every game broadcast.

Edited Monday at 02:39 PM by Andy

[gflore34]

Article today suggesting Maton may not completely recovered from his injury.  If so, at least, put him on the IL and go with a healthy body, don't care who it is, thinking someone who is healthy has far better chance at succeeding.  Do not understand why the Cubs will let someone who's not 100% come back and blow games.

[NorthsideAvenger]

15 hours ago, chibears55 said:

Cubs claimed Christian Roa

Guess he's a claimed reject that gonna replace one of the crap getting weeded out.

Yep, Fourth organization since December for Roa. Good enough to claim, not good enough to stick. 

[Derwood]

6 hours ago, Geographyhater8888 said:

The entire hitting approach seems more passive. The walk rate is up by 3% from a year ago for what it’s worth.

They lead the league in walks, and I’d guess are in the top five for pitches seen, but that approach leads to a lot of two strike counts. Seiya is much better when he’s aggressive early, but they seemed to have coached him out of that. 

Edited Monday at 05:25 PM by Derwood

[Old Style]

10 hours ago, Stratos said:

Swanson seeing over 40% breaking balls this year and he can't hit them vs RHP.  Seiya can't either.  Sox pumping them all weekend.

Maybe they need to sacrifice a chicken.