that wouldn't be crushing enough, they'll win just enough games to not win the division anyway, in real talk, if they win tonight and the pirates lose, we're like, totally ok. as frustrated as i am *during* the games, i'm pretty serene right now
This kind of offensive production is fuckin shameful Do the Pirates have some sort of fuckin knowledge on the Cubs? Like, this is almost inexplicable how bad the Cubs hitters are
its mostly the injuries and disappointing progress from young players I think. Almost nobody is playing *better* than they have in recent years, with the extremely notable exception of Javy. (You could argue Schwarber I suppose, but he's smack dab in the middle of what reasonable projections are for him) Also the games are miserable because they give up runs in the first inning in 80% of games
the 2018 Javier Baez season has been one in which I've learned to throw all my closely held Moneyballish biases away and firmly believe in a dude who just hacks at everything, hits for enormous power and has All The Intangibles needed to win the MVP I mean, seriously, more than anything else this dude has put this sorry team on his back and has willed them to 90+ wins
Gameday is showing that Baez struck out on a ball that very likely hit him in the head On the cool side though, his strike zone is like, all red for danger zones
listening to the Score right now....Joe Maddon's press conference was not great. The tweet quoted is right, when asked about the blog post he said "Should I have read it?" Like come on dude.