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They made some hard contact

That’s some of the best stuff I’ve ever seen Kyle throw

If Yu is pulling numbers this quick after a game I wonder what he thinks about Almora

Seems like a missed call, oh well. Take us home Craig.

Tony!

Well I thought we were in the bottom of the 9th http://giphygifs.s3.amazonaws.com/media/8VrtCswiLDNnO/200.gif

Giving Joe a 9-man pen was a ridiculously dumb move

Feels like a walk off

Chatwood earned a spot like this. Didn’t work. Cishek, Kintzler and Strop are all hurt and bad anyways. Maybe Vic shouldn’t call breaking balls vs that bum Voigt when he has guys who can throw 95+ on the mound too.

Maybe throw the 38 year old catcher a high FB instead of junk breaking balls.

Stroman got hurt tonight, give it time

That works

You horsefeathering cowards, Giants

Good job Joe

There has to be some bad luck/juiced ball to it but you have to wonder if Yu is tipping pitches or falling in to predictable pitches sequences at this point with the ridiculous HR/FB rate at this point.

95 off the bat there, what a horsefeathering joke

Garbage horsefeathering pitch calling and selection there

God damn it. Maybe throw that bum a FB and not spin something in there

Yu would be on a 2015 Jake like run right now if not for this ridiculous HR/FB rate.

How the horsefeathers did that get out

I still think it was a solid signing and the risk was reflected in the price. He put up .7 fWAR and 1.4 bWAR last year. He probably gets hurt along the way at some point anyways but we also know Maddon (in New York) went against the usage rules/plan on him and the medical staff didn’t do the proper scan on him (like Darvish) until much longer after he was hurt to find out what was wrong.

Cubs shift department, Please put Ian in the right spots. Thanks in advance. Yu is just gonna shove, shifts don’t matter.

I know the run environment is different but it's still kinda crazy how close this years offense is to 2016's (2B is the only big one that there's a huge drop this year). 2019: .253/.332/.451, .783 OPS, 100 wRC+, 9.6% BB rate, 23.6% K rate 2016: .256/.343/.429, .772 OPS, 106 wRC+, 10.4% BB rate, 21.1% K rate Kris Bryant 2019: .286/.385/.529, 136 wRC+, 11.7% BB rate, 21.3% K rate 2016: .292/.385/.554, 148 wRC+, 10.7% BB rate, 22% K rate Anthony Rizzo 2019: .288/.400/.528, 140 WRC+, 11.8% BB rate, 14.5% K rate 2016: .292/.385/.544, 145 wRC+, 10.9% BB rate, 16% K rate 2019 OF: .259/.341/.468, 107 wRC+, 10.4% BB, 21.5% K, 2016 OF: .266/.360/.444, 116 wRC+, 11.0% BB, 19.3 K 2019 SS: .285/.315/.541, 114 wRC+, 4.4% BB, 27.5% K 2016 SS: .285/.321/.417, 95 wRC+, 9.2% BB, 22.6% K 2019 2B: .233/.320/.381, 82 wRC+, 11% BB, 24.9% k 2016 2B: .274/.358/.445, 113 wRC+, 10.4% BB, 17.6% K 2019 C: .260/.353/.470, 112 wRC+, 10.8% BB, 23.6% K 2016 C: .242/.336/.422, 110 wRC+, 11.8% bb, 23.7% K The pitching is a notch lower than it was in 2016, especially on the results based metrics like ERA. But it's not THAT far off from some of the other metrics and it’s probably somewhat due to run environment and defense being all time in 2016 and good but not great this year. 2019 SP: 4.00 ERA, 4.14 FIP, 4.21 xFIP, 8.76 K/9, 2.63 BB/9 2016 SP: 2.96 ERA, 3.72 FIP, 3.76 xFIP, 8.39 K/9, 2.69 BB/9 2019 BP: 4.13 ERA, 4.62 FIP, 4.41 xFIP, 8.81 K/9, 4.07 BB/9, 2016 BP: 3.56 ERA, 3.87 FIP, 3.72 xFIP, 9.92 K/9, 3.81 BB/9 Not trying to make any real point, just found it interesting the offense numbers especially are close to 2016.

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