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Everything posted by Aaron Kennelly
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Dong time, Rizzo. -
Damn, Carl's Jr.
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See how easy it is, Matusz?
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Imagine being a fan of the team with the best record in baseball and hating them as much as tryptamine hates this team.
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You're comfortable with that, if a guy goes down? Because you SHOULD be scared [expletive]. How many guys are comfortable with their 6th starter? Ideally you'd like a young guy in AAA who could be a future rotation piece but between Wood and Montgomery you have a couple of options. Heck you could even extend Cahill. While that is true, other teams aren't like us. We are better than everyone else. So this is what we want. It's the one glaring issue, now that we have Chapman. If we want to be the best, our expectations for a 6th starter need to be more than Travis Wood and Trevor Cahill, who both suck really bad.
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I hope you do... after he is DFA'd and picked up by Oakland to pitch against us.
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He's so bad.
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It absolutely reflects on it. This guy was our next-in-line. Not anymore. Now we don't have one. So now all of these pitchers in their thirties have to stay healthy and not lose any juice. Travis Wood? He's not even effective coming out of the bullpen.
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You can't figure out why they were hoping to get the staff some extra rest? And also figure out if they had no back-up option, or if they had this guy in Iowa that maybe sorta could fill in if need be.
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Bingo. This guy sucks no doubt about it but to have this start reflect on the current state of the staff is kind of a reach. It absolutely reflects on it. This guy was our next-in-line. Not anymore. Now we don't have one. So now all of these pitchers in their thirties have to stay healthy and not lose any juice.
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What the hell did he do?
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Yeah, who cares about starters wearing out in the playoffs like Arrieta last year? Maddon has been pretty good this year about getting guys appropriate rest, limiting pitch counts etc this year. If it was common for pitchers to wear out going into October you'd see other teams using 6 starters. Other teams don't have 7 game leads on their division.
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horsefeathers it, we'll just win 10-8.
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Is there something about the best starting staff in the majors that you don't like? Yes, this guy that is currently pitching for us is our only option if one of them gets hurt or loses effectiveness.
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Every team in the history of baseball has done this.
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Well, maybe he's not Arrieta.
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Great play, Willy.
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Other Games Week of 7/25
Aaron Kennelly replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Matt Bowman is really the guy the Cards have to trot out in a tie game in the bottom of the 9th? I didn't realize their pen looked that bleak. That's to say nothing of choosing not to pitch Oh there... -
Matusz is going to Arrieta it almost immediately and he'll end up starting Game 1 of the NLDS.
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Other Games Week of 7/25
Aaron Kennelly replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Cards lose. -
Remember when we were all upset about having Kyle Hendricks instead of Randall Delgado because of a vetoed trade?
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 7-30-16
Aaron Kennelly replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Almora homered. -
Well, that's just silly. As you just saw with Chapman, those guys aren't perfect either. Arrieta was rolling. The first at bat, he was all over the corner of the zone and couldn't get a call. He wasn't really missing his spots or anything. The second AB was bad. And, of course, it was obvious to pull him there. But, before that, it is a lot of people looking at things in hindsight. Or, at best, it is people making a decision (Arrieta or the pen) that isn't entirely clear. Hell, people were calling for Chapman from the get-go over Rondon, and we saw how Rondon vs. Chapman worked out later in the inning. And those people weren't necessarily wrong. The point being: It's a tough call. And leaving in your ace when he is rolling isn't such a bad idea. I know Aroldis & Rondon are here to put out fires and they will most the time. Every one in awhile someone will rip an opposite field gapper off them taking their heat the other way. But, giving them a clean slate inning to start with & they are goin to be damn near perfect. Not necessarily unbeatable but it will be very Rare to beat. Coupled with Jakes struggles of late. Seemed like an easy decision.. its very hard to string together multiple base runners against our duo. It was also hard to string together multiple base runners against Arrieta today. How many had he given up before the 8th? 3?
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Um... OK?