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  1. bukie
    Cubs haven't put up a five-spot in a while.
  2. bukie
    Marquis getting a lot of flyball outs and groundball singles today.
  3. bukie
    Except this time it was a good pitch to hit. Sometimes, good players miss bad pitches.
  4. bukie
    Again, patience is one thing. You go up to the plate looking for a specific pitch in a specific location. Soto got a meatball rolling slider that was belt-high down the middle, he just missed it that time.
  5. bukie
    A belt-high mistake slider is not a bad pitch to swing at. He just missed it.
  6. bukie
    WHIP is a bad stat. So is ERA. Agreed. How about FIP? Most of his pitching statistics for this year are buoyed by an uncharacteristically low HR rate. His xFIP is quite bad, and discouragingly, his LD% is at a career high, while his GB% is at a career low, which indicate that he's been pretty lucky to this point.
  7. bukie
    WHIP is a bad stat. So is ERA.
  8. bukie
    Marquis has a league-average ERA with a below-league-average WHIP. Which indicates, if anything, he's fortunate to have given up as few runs as he has to this point.
  9. bukie
    Let's see if Patient Ronny has come to play today.
  10. bukie
    No matter what the context, two runs should not beat this Cubs team. As long as Marquis can keep getting those at-em balls, the Cubs should be able to win the game.
  11. bukie
    Falling behind hitters: Bad Getting ahead of hitters: Good
  12. bukie
    Hopefully Marquis can hold them here, and the offense can rack up some patience. I don't think the Cubs would be able to come back from a 5-0 deficit or anything.
  13. bukie
    31-0 over this stretch should make for a very comfortable August, too.
  14. bukie
    Isn't LaRoche on the DL?
  15. bukie
    The Pirates have been a solid offensive team all year with their outfield of Bay-Nady-McLouth. It's their pitching that's been abysmal.
  16. bukie
    I always enjoy me some good side-Bruce.
  17. bukie
    Our good friend Pythagorus thinks the Cubs should currently be sitting at 67-42. He also thinks the Brewers should be sitting at 55-54.
  18. bukie
    And now we see what would happen in a game where the Cubs converted every scoring opportunity.
  19. bukie
    You can pretty much split any statistic and use a portion of it to prove anything. I just found it odd that the argument was essentially "Howry minus his 5 worst starts isn't that bad, and Wuertz can't get AAA hitters out if you don't include the appearances where he did." Plainly broken down, for this year, the difference between Howry and Wuertz has been that they have both been below average relievers, except one lets a lot more guys on base, and the other gives up a lot more XBHs. The Cubs manager, given the choice, has shown time and again that he prefers the latter to the former (see: Hill, Rich). So, unless Wuertz can magically stop allowing so many guys to reach base, Lou will most likely stick with Howry.
  20. bukie
    Those numbers are absolutely atrocious given that you've removed his worst 5 outings. If you take all of the other relievers in the league that have 30+ outings this year, and you remove their 5 worst appearances, those numbers would probably rank in the bottom 20% of the league. Many mediocre relievers would have an ERA in the low 2s if you removed their 5 worst appearances. If you removed Wuertz's 5 worst outings this year, his line is: 35.2IP, 4 ER, 1.01 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 23/12 K/BB, far superior to Howry's, other than he's walking a few more people. Even if you only removed two of his outings instead of five, his numbers are: 36.2 IP, 8 ER, 1.99 ERA, 24/14 K/BB. We already applied that to Wuertz when we ignored the fact that he can't get out AAA hitters since his demotion. That was the point. Which he actually did a good job of last night, which made it odd that you ignored that when you posted his AAA numbers.
  21. bukie
    This is amazing to me. And the only loss by all rights shouldn't have been one.
  22. bukie
    Wuertz has been fantastic since July 30, and Howry hasn't thrown a strike since then. In the name of instant history, call up Wuertz immediately!
  23. bukie
    This definitely needed to be posted in 4 threads, and then it needed its own thread.
  24. bukie
    And his supply of maple bats. Dude needs to stop breaking bats over his knee when he's not hitting well. Also, maybe Lou shouldn't make him try to bunt when he's hitting .360.
  25. bukie
    I hear he's fun at parties.
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