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Just love when our ace is getting out pitched by this fat lipped golem

horsefeathering ridiculous

I expect it from moron casual baseball fans, but not from someone who announces games for a living.

Do they really think this is the only year we get to go for it? Seriously. Is the team moving or folding after this year? Just makes no sense.

What did they say? I've got the radio feed going. Schwarber is an AL type player and if it were me he'd be on the table for Miller/Chapman.

Maybe Buck should be the Yankees GM, he sure is pushing their players hard enough.

Do the announcers actually watch baseball?

Cubs have rocked Scherzer, Gerrit Cole, Greinke, Garret Richards, and I thought thet had a late lead against Strasburg? Was there unearned runs? Those all happened May 6 and before hand when the offense was a monster.

My bad, usually I get bashed the second any time I say anything the least bit negative.

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/abort.gif At no point shall we ever question the Cubs, understood. It's not like I don't get they're going to win the division, I'm worried about the chances of success once that is over.

We know the pen is bad, but my biggest concern is how easily the offense gets completely shutdown by good pitchers. These are they guys they're going to face in the playoffs. How the Cubs have fared against top 30 pitchers(by fwar) this year. 7/1 Degrom 5IP 3H 1ER 1BB 7K 6/30 Matz 5 1/3IP 7H 3ER 3BB 6K 6/26 Fernandez 7IP 4H 1ER 3BB 13K 6/15 Strasburg 7IP 6H 1ER 1BB 8K 6/13 Scherzer 7IP 2H 1ER 0BB 11K 5/22 Bumgarner 7 2/3IP 3H 0ER 2BB 6K 5/11 Pomeranz 6IP 3H 0ER 3BB 10K 5/8 Roark 6IP 4H 0ER 2BB 7K 5/6 Scherzer 5IP 7H 7ER 3BB 7K 4/9 Greinke 6IP 7H 4ER 3BB 8K The most recent success is off an injured Matz, outside of that the last time the Cubs scored 2 more runs against a top 25 pitcher was back on May 6th. Pitcher's ERA against this offense 2.66, pitcher's ERA without the first Scherzer game 1.65.

Combine that with Oakland signing Lazarito for 3.5M and the two top talents are already off the board.

While he does beat his FIP it's usually by .4 or .5. I"m not about to believe in a guy whose current babip is .040 lower than any other he's ever had in his career and whose strand rate is also the highest of his career. When the numbers start evening out I suspect he's a 3.2-3.5ERA pitcher which is nice, but I suspect they want value like he's a young top of the rotation pitcher and he just isn't. Yeah, like Tom said....why is this a bad thing? Outperforming his FIP is an actual skill when he's done it in every year of his career, it's not a luck thing. I also don't know how you can say he's a 3.2-3.5 ERA pitcher when he's only been at the exact bottom of that range in his 1st year of the 3 of 4 strong years of his career. He's 25 and a top 25 pitcher in baseball. I like him because he's under contract (mistakenly said arb eligible after next year), he's a top 25 SP, who's young, and durable and could conceivably get a little better with Bosio. Would be a good guy to have in place when Lackey is a FA/retires and insurance in case they can't/won't pay Arrieta in a couple years. While I'd rather give up the type of package it would take to get Fernandez or Carrasco or Gray, I don't know that any of those guys will come available. I never meant to imply that outperforming FIP is a luck thing, especially when given years of the same results. All I'm saying is that at some point I don't buy it being totally legit either. When a guy is sporting a babip that much lower than any other babip in his career and while his LD% is down, he's giving up more hard hit balls this year.

Actually he's a 4 WAR pitcher by RA9WAR and rWAR, and is almost at that already this year. As a pitcher who has beat his FIP his whole career spanning -750 innings and 3+ seasons, I am inclined to go with either of those over a FIP based WAR like fWAR. These trades tend to come with another piece, the teams trading for the ML rarely get just that guy, and I suspect that will be the case here too even if it is not Vizcaino. While he does beat his FIP it's usually by .4 or .5. I"m not about to believe in a guy whose current babip is .040 lower than any other he's ever had in his career and whose strand rate is also the highest of his career. When the numbers start evening out I suspect he's a 3.2-3.5ERA pitcher which is nice, but I suspect they want value like he's a young top of the rotation pitcher and he just isn't.

wow that sucks with a likely draft coming in 2017. No last chance to splurge.

Way to choke

Make him at least throw one god damn strike

WIllson with a horseshit at bat

same damn pitch every time, how hard is it to figure out?

Terrible at bat by KB

Travis Wood is either not so fast or he got a really bad read

Please no fake rally, I can't take it after that 7th inning.

WHy in the hell is Montero hitting for Almora?

and Heyward continues to be almost entirely useless when he's not in the outfield.

Way to ruin the at bat ump.