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On what date does Maddon get fired? winner gets an up vote
Cubswin11 replied to NotSoSober's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
who is doing that? Well since pretty much all managers suck (or the good ones are gainfully employed), who are the candidates who would be an improvement on Maddon, either mid-season or in 2020? Francona might be available? Otherwise would guess we’d go with one of these young, inexperienced guys that cost nothing like everyone else is doing. Loretta or Venable on staff fit this. I generally agree that it’s much harder than some think to find a better manager, the new guy might be better at certain things Joe is bad at but probably will be worse in spots Joe’s good at. It will be just shifting the anger at stuff we don’t like about Joe to different things with the new guys. -
Not surprised. That takes the biggest position player free agent off the board for 2020. Probably the only guy the Cubs would have been remotely interested. I suppose Puig could have a big enough year to gather some interest and Ozuna could have a bounce back year. Although it's just as likely that Ozuna continues to show that 2017 was a fluke and Puig burns down a large section of Cincinnati or something. Maybe J.D. Martinez has another monster year and ops out, although given the market recently, that would be really, really ballsy on his part considering he'd still be guaranteed $62-ish million through his age 34 year. After that, we're left with Mad Bum, Betances, and... ...and I'd still not be surprised if Betances were extended before he ever hits the open market. Rendon is still out there, he’d be an awesome add. Either at 2B or 3B and move KB to the OF. I doubt we have the money for him but one can dream.
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On what date does Maddon get fired? winner gets an up vote
Cubswin11 replied to NotSoSober's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I think he’s given the year and just not brought back next year. Largely based on the pitchers getting their horsefeathers together, which I think they will so there won’t be a record/performance reason to fire him in season. If the idiots in the bullpen don’t want to figure it out though, there’s not much Joe or any manager can do and Theo built in a way for Joe to hang himself if we keep getting horsefeathers pitching. -
Please keep giving Wainwright starts, Cardinals
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Arrieta somehow went 6IP with only 1R while giving up 6BB and 3H, sure would be nice to have our guys somehow get results like that when they’re wild as horsefeathers. He was pretty much 50/50 on strikes and balls thrown too.
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and then how would we fix it? there are going to be limited free agents (and who knows when ricketts will be willing to spend again on FA, assuming we'll need to pay baez and kb soon), and the farm system is still pretty bad right? like how are we going to add talent to make up for these huge mistakes. There’s money (but obviously talent) coming off the next two years to add FA, maybe there isn’t money there for top tier FA (there really aren’t any this coming year anyways) but there are a lot of middle tier FA SP and there’s always plenty of bullpen/position player roster filler FA that don’t cost much. Bullpens can be built back up relatively easily year over year without crazy investments. We got Nico, Amaya, Roederer and Davis in the minors offensively, there’s a big enough stockpile of pitching that we should start seeing at least some bullpen options/back of rotation guys emerge soon, the guys with TOR stuff/potential are further off (not that there’s many). This is obviously assuming we keep most of our own guys offensively and they remain good to elite and we only need to keep adding complimentary pieces to the offense through FA/trade/guys from the system through draft/IFA (you’d hope some of the draft/IFA guys like Nico, Amaya, Roeder And Davis are more than complimentary pieces) to the core and not spend on the elite additions there for some time yet.
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I think this is a needed post. Not sure people like Duker or Tim are going to post enough to call us ninnies or tell us #wearegood. We need at least somebody to point out overreactions after three games. Of course both duke and Tim were wrong last year. The context here is obviously the key part. No 3 game series, particularly the very first one, means anything - yet the cubs lost exactly how a look at their roster predicted they would. The Yankees and Red Sox don’t have the same roster issues (actually the Red Sox might) My fear about the pen is not only that it might not be good, the only reliable parts are a mid 30s strop who looked washed late last year and cishek (same.) Yeah the worrying part is they lost on the things that we were worried most about. Hopefully it gets sorted out like we all think it can be, the talent is there for it not to be THIS bad. I don’t recall Pedro looking washed last year, he just got hurt running to 1B?
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I don’t know if I have faith in the front office to fix this mess. Their hands are tied with 3 bad contracts. Hayward, Darvish, and Chatwood. The offense is a positive but man the bullpen is a mess. The only way to fix it is to hope that Carl Jr. becomes good again and Morrow actually is back in May, and then you have four clean options in Carl, Strop, Cisek and Morrow and maybe somebody else I'm forgetting. That said, Carl has to somehow be good again and Morrow has to somehow come back in May. Also, we really need the starters to not do this 5-inning, 95-pitch thing again. The other thing about fixing the pen (or making it better) outside of what you mentioned, would be if Brach and/or Kintzler really is something serviceable or even very good like they’ve been in the past. Also we probably should start turning a spot over with AAA guys and see if something sticks, try and catch lightning in a bottle with one of the dozen or so guys down there. Cut Chatwood, DL Monty (he doesn’t look right, maybe his shoulder is still bothering him), or something to create a spot.
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Yankees lost 2 of 3 at home to the Orioles and Red Sox lost 3 of 4 to the Mariners. I assume their seasons are over too. Shitty series for us no doubt and some of the worst ways to lose. At least the offense looks good. Bullpens can be fixed, even the options we have aren’t as bad as they’ve been the last 2 days. Hamels was a blown strike away from having a good start today. Idk, I’m willing to give it some time before I make any sweeping judgements.
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Embarrassing. Don’t know why Mazarra was being pitched to, to begin with.
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Jesus Christ, Zobrist
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LOL at this zone
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Hopefully this GB or soft liner finds a hole
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horsefeathers yes
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What a stupid strike zone
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Monty sucks when used as a real relief pitcher
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My god
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horsefeathers these assholes
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Get him out
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Sure would be nice if Hamels was getting some of these strike calls this inning
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Give us some insurance Mr. Clutch
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You can only contain Jeff Mathis for so long
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What an inning in memory of Chili
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I suppose it is good to see Hamels at 93-94 pretty consistently all day even as he approaches the end of the day and 80-90+ pitches.
