Cubs (TBD) vs Royals (Lynch): 08/07/26, 7:10 PM

[Brock Beauchamp]

The Cubs visit the Royals to open their series at Kauffman Stadium, with Lynch on the mound for Kansas City.

[Brock Beauchamp]

	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	TOT
Trent Thornton	0	22	0	0	12	34
Ryan Zeferjahn	0	0	9	14	0	23
Ryan Rolison	30	0	14	0	14	58
Jacob Webb	0	0	12	11	0	23
Caleb Thielbar	0	0	0	19	12	31
Aaron Civale	18	0	0	0	45	63

[The_Achiever]

Friday night Cubs.  Will go well with my typical Friday beers.  LFG!

[Bertz]

This is the rare road trip where I think you should be disappointed if you don't go at least 4-2.  Cavalli/Peterson next Thursday is the only game where we shouldn't be favored.

[squally1313]

11 minutes ago, Bertz said:

This is the rare road trip where I think you should be disappointed if you don't go at least 4-2.  Cavalli/Peterson next Thursday is the only game where we shouldn't be favored.

(Brewers favored in 8 of their next 12, so basically we'll be 1.5 back in a couple weeks)

[Brian707]

Why is it TBD for Cubs? Gausman I thought was starting 

[UMFan83]

Random observation but Seiya Suzuki has very quietly reached 3.8 bWAR this season.  If the season ended today it would be his highest bWAR season as a Cub.

2022 - 1.8
2023 - 3.2
2024 - 3.5
2025 - 2.6 (weighed down a bit by mostly being DH)
2026 - 3.8

Obviously WAR can go up and down but his current pace is a 5.6 bWAR season.  Pretty nice contract year for him if he can keep it up and stay healthy.

Edited 51 minutes ago by UMFan83

[squally1313]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

Random observation but Seiya Suzuki has very quietly reached 3.8 bWAR this season.  If the season ended today it would be his highest bWAR season as a Cub.

2022 - 1.8
2023 - 3.2
2024 - 3.5
2025 - 2.6 (weighed down a bit by mostly being DH)
2026 - 3.8

I'm looking at FG, but yeah, he's had a really good year. The expected metrics say the offense is a little luck driven, but he's also, somehow, generated the most defensive value of any right fielder. 

Ballesteros is no longer squatting in the 'DH of the future' job, so between that and Seiya actually being a fine (or better) defender, there's certainly a better argument for trying to bring him back. 

[chibears55]

34 minutes ago, Brian707 said:

 

 

 

1 hour ago, squally1313 said:

(Brewers favored in 8 of their next 12, so basically we'll be 1.5 back in a couple weeks)

9 and 3 should be minimum here

Edited 39 minutes ago by chibears55

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Lynch is a reliever and I have no idea who Randy Dobnak is

[gflore34]

1 hour ago, squally1313 said:

(Brewers favored in 8 of their next 12, so basically we'll be 1.5 back in a couple weeks)

Relative to last few games this is a fairly large step down in opponents' starting pitching.  Appears today is a bullpen game for the Royals, a bullpen which is among the worst in the AL.

[Jason Ross]

32 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

 

 

9 and 3 should be minimum here

I don't think you can ever consider 9 of 12 as a minimum. That's an incredible winning percentage. I'd certainly love it, but even the best record against sub .500 teams in baseball is a .667 winning percentage. 

It's Milwaukee. Because of course it's Milwaukee.