ConstableRabbit

Why can’t he pinch hit? You can't pinch hit when you're starting.

Go Cubs Go is awesome and you're jealous.

Tommy Pham was traded because we have a fragile owner who didn’t like him firing off to the media about the organization. Zero to do with rebuilding. Silly you think that. Plus we had to make room for Tyler O’Neill and Bader one way or another. Trading one of the team's best players who didn't make anything for O'Neill and Bader is certainly a strategy.

What’s your theory? That Zo is ready to go and Javy is healthy but Joe prefers Addy and Robel over them?

This is an embarrassing post.

I can’t handle this zone today.

Did you read the article? They're just blindly lashing out trying to blame someone bc they can't handle that he had a substance abuse problem. horsefeathers them. Sure I get they’re trying to place blame and would prefer not to accept their son/husband was just an addict but even if it’s misguided he was still getting the drugs from somewhere and if someone in the organization was enabling/facilitating it, it should be investigated. Especially if it was known that he had a problem and the team doctor for example wrote him a script for these drugs.

Are you saying that you value Lindor over Bryant because he averages more PAs per game with a straight face, or is this part of your "the Cubs suck and I hope they lose forever" schtick? I value Lindor more because he's younger, is much better defensively at a much more important position, and, most critically (IMO), is not showing signs that he's going to be a much more inconsistent or diminished player because of a chronic injury/pan/discomfort issue. I just figured since people are trying to parse the tiniest possible differences between the two in an effort to make anyone who would prefer Lindor over Bryant to be a dolt (see your gigantic reach of a response), I'd head that off that at the pass since Bryant's spent most the year batting 2nd, so whatever. All of the Fangraphs' projects for the rest of the season have Lindor being worth another 1 fWAR, so, again, Lindor missing 19 games arguably shorted him "damn near 1 fWAR." Also, yes, the Cubs do suck, but I only hope they lose most of the time. I'm feeling magnanimous today since it's the Brewers. I don't think it's foolish for someone to compare Bryant to Lindor and prefer Lindor. I do think it's foolish to "fWAR per game" or whatever it is you're using to compare any two players. It's heavily reliant on PA/G which is often out of the player's hands. Production weighted to number of PAs is far more reasonable.

Are you saying that you value Lindor over Bryant because he averages more PAs per game with a straight face, or is this part of your "the Cubs suck and I hope they lose forever" schtick?

Puerto Rico has roughly the same share of English speakers as Pakistan.

Who cares how many games he missed? When discussing production, 29 PAs is a smaller difference than “19 games”

Where are you getting a dozen from 29 PAs?

Cubs in 2019: 100 wRC+ Yadier Molina career: 99 wRC+

Yeah, but you're stuck with Rendon for his age 30-40 seasons lol

Nothing to see here, just an MLB starter with like 9 pitches. Yu is a horsefeathering savage.

What did he say?

Yup and like you said it’s fine I think what's not fine is that he's surely going to be one of the first 3 starters in a postseason series.

Lester's last 5 hitters, all with 2 strikes: Single Single Single Single Walk

I mean, we have the receipts As much as I enjoy the doom bonering that's been going on lately and how frustrated everyone is with Theo, it's still true that we *have* made the playoffs every year since the signing and probably will this year too. It's disappointing to see the gap that has emerged between us and the Dodgers/Astros, and but it hasn't actually burned us yet (I guess outside of blowing the divsion last year) There are 6 teams in MLB that have made the playoffs 5 straight years in the past 40 seasons, even if you include streaks that bled into this timeframe: Braves, Yankees, Indians, Cardinals, Phillies, Dodgers. We're about to join that list. Wild card expansion or not, that's a big deal.

What the hell are you talking about?

Sign me up for more Nicky C.

This is probably what 2015 Jake would look like if he were pitching w this ball tho lol

Theo Epstein. He’s the guy that runs the Cubs and says things. The first one. Morrow? The guy who was top 40 of NL relievers in fWAR despite pitching half the innings of most of the guys ahead of him.

Bye bye, bitch ^literal lol at this not being filtered out

Yu is a horsefeathering savage and you were all wrong to hate him.