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It's a small Edith Cox sample size, but has Happ already done enough to shut Cox the horsefeathers up about Addison Russell?
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What a big pick me up by Happ.
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Every time Almora is overmatched -- which is almost always -- you can just throw him the same pitch and he will keep swinging at it. Dude, you have to make contact there. You are a good kid but you are pretty not good at baseball things.
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Is it too Edith Cox sample size to say the people who thought Castellanos was a non-factor or not that much better than what we have..... already wrong just because he's already done so much?
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He looks so much better than Taylor Davis.
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But what did Addison Russell do last night?
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Not only does he whiff on the catch, then he sits on the wall like he's going to take a poop while the runner continues to go around the bases.
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Well the one key thing today, which can't happen all the time, is that the Cubs tacked on some runs in a late inning. And it allowed a shitty bullpen to be shitty and still have the Cubs win. That said, I was too nervous to watch the last inning, and based on all of these comments, it seems like we got lucky with the last out or something.
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And then Javy is like, whatever.
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Man. KB did his job. Got the dude over. And then Rizz doesn't do his job. Just make contact, man.
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I was going to say Hamels, then realized I might be wrong. Jesse Chavez!
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Also, I'm blanking a bit. What are some examples this season? I know they have DL'ed Willy and Hendricks. They obviously had to DL Hamels. What are some of the crazy ones I'm forgetting in 2019?
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Because if we DL'd KB every time he needed body maintenance, he'd miss 100 games a year. It's like how everybody was freaking out when Rizzo missed four or five games with the back spasms he has every year. You don't just DL him and throw away five games when the resting five more isn't going to eliminate the issue once or twice a year. Stars have to play when they are hurting a little bit. There is zero way of knowing if KB is slumping because of an injury. Dude slumps at times. When your argument is hinged on, "this guy gets hurt a lot, so they shouldn't put ever put him on the IL unless he's REALLY hurt," it's a bad take. And if a guy, even if that guy is Bryant, who is playing like absolute butt, missing several games is "throwing them away," congratulations: you've constructed a terrible team. Playing every stretch like it's down the wire is going to bite you in the ass when it actually does come down to the wire. If he's banged up bad enough, he needs some extra rest. If a guy is banged up bad enough, he absolutely needs to be IL'd. My point is even when these guys aren't banged up bad enough, people want them to be IL'd any way.
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See? They do use the IL.
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It's sort of weird that three hours or so before game time they still don't know who is being DL'd. Any chance Underwood came here in case of a bout of illness from somebody but isn't actually activated yet in case the ill guy is fine? Probably not, just wondering. ETA: Well, horsefeathers.
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I know I'm about to be the second-most hated person on here behind Cox for saying this, but you guys freak out way too much about the DL thing. Why? It’s 10 days, horsefeathering use it. There’s a reoccurring theme going back to 2017 and Zobrist wrist thing about them being buffoons with injury management. Because if we DL'd KB every time he needed body maintenance, he'd miss 100 games a year. It's like how everybody was freaking out when Rizzo missed four or five games with the back spasms he has every year. You don't just DL him and throw away five games when the resting five more isn't going to eliminate the issue once or twice a year. Stars have to play when they are hurting a little bit. There is zero way of knowing if KB is slumping because of an injury. Dude slumps at times.
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Their avoidance of the IL is so frustrating. They think, oh we can't afford to be without KB in the lineup for 10-15 days... but really, he's given a 230 wOBA over the last 11 games... so is it better to have them play through it and not get the appropriate rest and treatment all while getting nowhere near the normal production, rather than sucking it up with Bote and a Russell or Machado to help fill in for 10 or so days? It seems to make no sense at all to me. Every time we keep trotting these injured players out there they play like shells of their regular selves. I know I'm about to be the second-most hated person on here behind Cox for saying this, but you guys freak out way too much about the DL thing.
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Unless they're gonna make up a pitcher injury, I have a feeling it might be a certain third baseman. Yeah I’m guessing KB too and play with a short bench for a day or two. Though making up something for Chatwood after yesterday would make some sense since he’s down for a few days anyways. If Yu is really that sick maybe they IL him, to get him a breather. Wouldn’t be the worst thing to give him an abbreviated rest anyways and manage some innings on him. Phelps I guess maybe too, he’s just working his way back and something could’ve barked on him. Great call on the sweep, however, I don't think you will be right about KB.
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2019 Other Games Thread
Bryants Disco Ball replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
They’re absolutely cheating. Passan almost let it out of the bag on one of the Effectively Wild podcast in the offseason. Believe the comment was “people wouldn’t believe the things you hear they are doing.” Or something along those lines, that they’re doing insane things and it’s systemic in the org but then kinda caught himself and didn’t share anything more. Come on; if somebody said that about the Cubs you'd just think they were praising whatever galaxy-brained nonsense they were supposedly doing. Why would Passan not talk about them cheating? Yeah, plus with player movement, how would ex-Astros not start talking about it with new teammates? I mean, I can't imagine they are signing NDAs. -
8/4 Cobs (Darvish) vs Brewers (Houser) 1:20 WGN
Bryants Disco Ball replied to Andy's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I did my required reading before the series Wow. What a perfect time to use that one. -
8/4 Cobs (Darvish) vs Brewers (Houser) 1:20 WGN
Bryants Disco Ball replied to Andy's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Great job to Cubswin11, who predicted a sweep. -
I'm seeing that the Cubs could pay him $5 million next season or buy him out for $100,000. ETA: Mooney said that at season’s end, the Cubs can choose between re-signing him for $5 million or paying a $100,000 buyout. Brach will also have a $1.35 million player option for 2021. So, I guess the $1.35 for 2021 might factor in? That's a weird one.
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Probably because he is still signed for next year so they are going to give him all of spring training and the first couple weeks next season before he gets the boot. This, provided he's willing to continue to fake an injury the rest of this month. Brach was probably going to be around next year too. He has/had a player option for like $3.5 mil I think. But glad he’s gone and we’re not letting such a small amount of money keep guys around. I actually think that was a mutual option that had to be picked up by both sides. I will check on that.
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Probably because he is still signed for next year so they are going to give him all of spring training and the first couple weeks next season before he gets the boot. This, provided he's willing to continue to fake an injury the rest of this month.
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Maddon was gone the second the FO decided not to add on another year to his deal. He's a lame duck manager. If they win the WS, he can use the "I'm going out on top" excuse. If they flame out and either miss the playoffs or get bounced quickly, they'll say they're looking for a new voice in the clubhouse or some other [expletive] line. Don't know what excuse they'd use if the Cubs make the NLCS or WS and lose but I'm sure they'd have something. It's almost the opposite of last year, where the team looked pretty terrible for long stretches and had some pretty serious injuries and still somehow ended up with the most wins in the NL. This year we've been pretty healthy, KB and Contreras are having significantly better years, etc...and it just seems like Maddon is consistenly pressing the wrong buttons, and it's going to take a really strong finish to get to 90 wins. I'm intrigued by the Cubs having the most wins in the NL last year. :P