Irrelevant Dude
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Starting Rae is absolutely not waving the white flag. Baseball is baseball and, on any given day, Colin Rae can beat Paul Skenes. Is it a game the Cubs would have been likely to win? No, but neither was Boyd on short rest. -
But they took their best option for Game 2 and turned him into a non-option.
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We're getting ahead of ourselves here, but maybe the Cubs look to trade Kelly. Having two very good hitching catchers is a luxury that few, if any, teams have and maybe the Cubs can capitalize on Kelly's outstanding season and team friendly contract to fill another hole.
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I don't think you can keep his bat in Iowa any longer. He needs to be seeing big league pitching at this point, and the Cubs just might have to let him learn to catch on the fly.
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Absolutely
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Then what would you do with Seiya, who has been one of the team's best hitters? I do think Mo is a quality hitter who is only going to get better, but there just isn't a spot for him right now.
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Exactly why Jed won't do it, and perhaps rightfully so. But that doesn't stop me from wanting him!
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I'm just sitting here sulking in this performance (although the series is far from over) and thinking, I really want Schwarber next year. I know Jed won't do it, but give me that elite power bat in the lineup.
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Be careful what you wish for. Counsell might give you Taillon on 3 days rest.
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He's going to be smoking in the tunnel by the 5th inning.
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I don't always love Jed's approach, but it has actually worked for the bullpen. Same thing with the rotation, I would certainly prefer the Cubs go out and get a TOR arm, but his "bargain bin" staff has performed well this season. The unfortunate reality is, they are without 2 of their top 3 starters right now, and it shows.
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I assume based on the trade market, teams had to give up more value than they were getting back, which by definition would be an overpay.
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That delivery looked like a balk to me.
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Because they had a better, cheaper option in-house. Now they get to have it both ways, hating the guy who left and loving the guy who stayed.
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At least our garbage time long relief guy gave us... Checks notes... 1 inning
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I honestly can't remember the last time I've seen a manager reacting like Counsell right now. Every time the camera is on him, it looks like he is in complete agony.
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When everything is going wrong...
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How early can we deploy the position player pitcher?
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Pitchers have bad games. Probably not worthy of writing him off for the rest of his career.
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So out of character, and that only happens because he was trying to do too much to compensate for his pitcher getting shelled.
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Boyd is good, but he's not "start on 3 days rest" good. The Cubs could have started Rea and then had their rested rotation lined up for the rest of the series. Even losing game 1, they would have been in decent shape going forward. Now they are going to lose Game 1 and they put themselves in a less than ideal position pitching-wise. Starting Boyd was a mistake, and an avoidable one.
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Then send him to the IL.
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Did they just say the Brewers lead in infield hits and unearned runs? Is that a polite way of saying they are lucky?
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Counsell's body language is not great. He knows he screwed up.
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This is going great. Unforced error starting Boyd today.
