Bryants Disco Ball
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I feel both extremes make it suck. I think we should be one of the maybe two or three teams in baseball that can have a mixture. I don't watch enough ball outside the Cubs. Are all games just decided via home run derby or is it just the one team I watch? I know everyone loves a big dong, but it feels like without multiple dongs in a game, I have to watch our offense get five hits and struggle to get guys home from second with zero outs because they don't know anything but dongs. Thanks for reading my frustrations. i just dont think we are on the extreme of either and likely been a good offense most of the last 2 years with a horrendous september of last year. 5th straight year looking good for the playoffs, its not doomsville. Agree it would be better if everyone developed and we were winning 105 games per year but hardly realistic. When it comes to extremes, is there a way to find out what percentage of runs are scored via dong for all teams this season? I would love to see that stat, although not sure it's easily found.
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Spot on. No matter how good the pitching is, this offense is completely binary. i feel this is exagerrated for the mere fact we supposedly had a top NL offense until the last 5 weeks of 2018 that was predicated on scoring runs without the dong. Now we are soleh attached to dong? My guesss is we have had a good but not great offense both years but donging likely helps us more. I feel both extremes make it suck. I think we should be one of the maybe two or three teams in baseball that can have a mixture. I don't watch enough ball outside the Cubs. Are all games just decided via home run derby or is it just the one team I watch? I know everyone loves a big dong, but it feels like without multiple dongs in a game, I have to watch our offense get five hits and struggle to get guys home from second with zero outs because they don't know anything but dongs. Thanks for reading my frustrations.
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He's for sure a guy I hope they are willing to just let play out the contract. It's hard to think that after two more complete seasons he is going to be a guy we want on even a semi large extension.
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Also, I got unlazy for a second and checked. This is the third time in the last eight games that we have been down by at least seven runs through three innings. That's really shitty.
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I’m assuming that if we do a sell off that won’t involve Javy, Rizzo and Bryant who will all be FAs, and Lester No one will take Heyward's or Darvish's contracts, we probably won't trade Contreras, so the mega shake up is.....trading Almora/Happ/Schwarber for????? And when I say trade guys, I don't mean a sell off in terms of a current guy for prospect. A current guy for some other good current guy. I want them to be willing to trade even some of the core. To legit listen on anybody and anything.
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I realize it's dangerous, but I'd like to see the Cubs blow this thing up in the offseason. Not rebuild, mind you. Just get a bunch of new players and ship out a lot of the current ones to play under whoever the new manager is.
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Wait. That's not tonight?
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I am too lazy to check, but this feels like the third or fourth game in the past two weeks where the Cubs have just gotten totally blown out in the first three innings or so. That's really bad. Of course, it might not be true, but if it is, that's really bad.
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Speaking of eye tests, it appears the Cubs will never be able to score a decent amount of runs without hitting home runs, and I loathe every second of it.
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About 70 percent of the time, they always hit that big home run instead of grounding into a double play or something.
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Hell of a 3-1 swing, Albert.
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We just needed Riz to ground out to the right side.
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Man, Happ is having a terrible night.
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We swing at the first pitch a lot.
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Would love a surprise bunt by Javy here.
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The fifth grader down the street wouldn't have even dropped that.
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horsefeathering A, Happ.
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Too late. He already posted yesterday that the game would be PPD, but it at least would give the team a couple days off.
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The Ball is Insanely Juiced
Bryants Disco Ball replied to sneakypower's topic in General Baseball Talk
Just eliminate the shift. The shift isn't doing much to curb baserunners. BABIP has stayed between .295 and .300 since 2010. The walk rate for 2010 and 2019 are also exactly the same (8.5%). The K rate has gone from 18.5% to 22.8%, which I think is a big part of it. And then the fly ball rate has decreased, but HR/FB% is way up (9.4% in 2010, 15.3% now, next highest is 13.7% in 2017). Fix the ball first, and then figure out a way to lower the K rate. Though all of these solutions go against the desire to cut down on game time. Need other solutions for that. I think this might be a stupid question, so don't make fun of me. With the juiced ball, would we see a higher BABIP than that range of .295 to .300 without shifts? Or nah? I just look at guys like Schwarber and think they'd be getting on base via a hit so much more often. -
The Ball is Insanely Juiced
Bryants Disco Ball replied to sneakypower's topic in General Baseball Talk
So essentially take the Coors field approach everywhere Exactly. I don't necessarily want to increase scoring to the level at Coors Field (I don't hate that idea, but it's not a necessary component) but greatly increasing the number of hits and baserunners would be my goal. Just eliminate the shift. -
I realize this is a message board so posting messages is what you are supposed to do, but you can't allow Cox to control the conversation in this way. He basically brings up Addison Russell and everyone falls in line by responding with everything we already know. In this particular case, if Cox posts and nobody responds, it just goes away.
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Great job to Derwood and anybody else who believed the Cubs could win today, especially into the seventh inning.
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Question I don't have the answer to. Did Happ really need to work on things, and did he work on those things and that's why he's productive so far? Or is Ian Happ the same Ian Happ as he's always been and should have been up here the whole time if he's up here now?
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With our minor league bullpen, it would have been cooler to only need three outs than nine.
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You aren't right yet.......... but you beautiful son of a bitch.