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  1. mul21
    I'll make fun of Derwood all day, but calling him out as the weird one in this exchange is peak CubinNY. 🙄
  2. mul21
    Ha! Buster's account got hacked. Those are fake.
  3. mul21
    Buster Olney's twitter account has been hacked and the person in control of it is making some interesting (read: nonsensical) choices.
  4. mul21
    Weens?
  5. mul21
    I tend to agree with this. and I honestly doubt we see him again this year anyway. He's out until Mid July minimum anyway and based on the recent move to the 60 day IL, I'm not optimistic he'd be ready even if he gets a clean bill of health. All those other guys can slot into a setup role but nobody is a lock down closer. I'd be in favor of going and getting a guy if it looks like the offense is going to help sustain a run the last couple months of the season.
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  7. mul21
    This has to be the unluckiest team in the league by a wide margin when it comes to xBA vs actual BA.
  8. mul21
    There's no kind of about it and I'll leave it at that.
  9. mul21
    Yeah, I think the message here is different strokes for different folks. While the Cubs methodology for unlocking the best a pitcher can be may work the vast majority of the time, there's guys who just won't take to it. There is no magic bean that makes every guy successful and that's been true forever. Even in the days of the sinker ballers, you saw guys who just couldn't keep the ball down enough to make it work because of the natural path of their arm and pitches. That's why these coaches and development guys get paid a ton of money to figure out what works best for who, and like anything else involving human beings, sometimes they miss something or the message isn't quite delivered the right way to a guy, or maybe he's just not ready to hear that message when it's delivered and 2 years later he is. There's a million permutations and I think looking at the overall body of work where guys like Leiter, Merryweather, Mychal Givens and even Assad and Wesneski, tells you they have a good idea of what they're doing.
  10. mul21
    I think that's just it, a dead ball. We've heard rumors of it at the MLB level and you know they like to experiment in the minors so I'd bet that's the biggest reason. Pitchers didn't suddenly become 20-25% better over the winter.
  11. mul21
    Honestly, this is probably the biggest reason I want him to be a huge success. That group will have to eat their words and love him and his pink clothes and painted fingernails and they're going to hate it.
  12. mul21
    EV on the hits that inning: 84.5, 89, 72.4 (double), and 98.6. Exactly one ball that qualifies as hard hit. I'm not sure you can glean anything from it.
  13. mul21
    The offense isn't this bad. The offense being terrible and giving the pen no margin for error is making them look worse than they are. The starting pitching probably is overachieving but is still very good. The offense will come around and all of a sudden they won't look like the White Sox and they'll stack up some Ws. It better happen soon though because this is depressing to watch.
  14. mul21
    And had an unsustainable plan based around high draft picks. I'm not absolving Jed here, but this feels more sustainable, not to mention the rules have completely changed to prevent teams from doing what Theo did. There's also some bad luck involved here, between injuries and nearly every hitter on the team having a career worst slump all at the same time. None of this makes me hate watching this any less unfortunately.
  15. mul21
    😮
  16. mul21
    Can Amaya get assigned this L? Or Counsell? No reason for Leiter to have been in there today. This is 3 days out of 4 and 4 days out of 6. Miller, Smyly, and Hodge are all fresh. Or even try to squeeze another inning out of Taillon.
  17. mul21
    I mean, the ump has already screwed him once and that pitch location is likely to be a called strike again putting him in a 1-2 count. The point is that even when he's doing the right things, he's getting calls that put him at a disadvantage.
  18. mul21
    Man, Busch has to be so frustrated with an AB like that. Looks at the first pitch that's a couple inches outside for a ball, does the same with the second pitch that's in the same location but a few inches higher and it gets called a strike, sees the 3rd pitch heading to a similar area and basically has to swing because who knows what the ump will do. Robot umps now.
  19. mul21
    He's not on the 40 man is probably the biggest reason. Not to mention he doesn't have anywhere to play. You're not going to see Morel or Nico get benched.
  20. mul21
    Ah yes, every single player having a career worst year was certainly foreseeable. 🙄
  21. mul21
    At least another 2 weeks before a re-evaluation for Adbert and some other miscellaneous news in here. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/05/cubs-trade-rumors-bullpen-help-adbert-alzolay-shut-down.html?utm_source=twitter
  22. mul21
    Nobody is demanding perfection, we just want him to throw strikes more consistently. Jesus dude.
  23. mul21
    He was actually locating very well last night and the garbage ump cost him a couple called strikes. He was both bad and inconsistent, even within the same AB. Generally I agree on Little's control, but it feels like he's been a bit better lately with location.
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  25. mul21
    Yeah, if he stays on the heater he's been on, seeing him in the OF and Belli at 1B with Busch getting some down time wouldn't surprise me at all.
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