Following yet another loss, I'm on team sell. This is just not a good team. How it's possible to have 2 10 game win streaks and still be a few days from sub .500 I have no idea.
Jameson Taillon's rank amongst qualified pitchers
ERA- 5.37, 71st out of 72
FIP- 6.58, 72nd out of 72, dead last and by over a full run where 71st is 5.44
xFIP- 4.68, 68th out of 72
xERA- 5.27, 70th out of 72
So realistically they need 2 SP with one of them being a guy to slot into their top 2. They can't get that done without decimating the farm and this team is not one I'm about to set back the farm 3 or 4 years for.
I was vehemently against them going to Indiana, but if Illinois politicians are this inept, then horsefeathers it, I don't blame them if they move out of state.
Things continue like they are and in a week or two, the talk of the town is going to a baseball team that isn't the Cubs. While it wont mean anything major, it would have to at least hurt his pride a little one would think.
I just don't see how someone isn't getting fired after tonight. In a year you claim to be a championship contender, to go out and lose 10 in a row is completely unacceptable.
Oh look no Ramirez or Alcantara. Is this the 4th game since Alcantara has been called up and he has 1 PA. Meanwhile Ramirez is hitting well through his first 8 PAs and finds himself on the bench again.
His job might not be immediately in jeopardy, but you don't think Counsell's job is in jeopardy if they lose say another 5 games in a row? I think it very much would be. If you don't fire a coach for losing, in this example, 14 games in a row, then what do you fire them for?
A couple weeks ago they had the best record in baseball, now they're 2 games out of last place in the division and a half a game away from missing the playoffs entirely if the season ended today.