Aaron_Kennelly

Schwarber is 1-4 with 3 K's.

Lackey's got to go.

He must be the cake eater.

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Don't try to tell me it's a coincidence that Schwarber Fan started this thread. He had to kill Miggy to allow Schwarber to get back behind the plate where he belongs.

lmaooooooooooooo i didn't see that Yeah, he said Salvador Perez has only thrown out 1 of 11 base stealers because Hammel won't hold people on... lmao It's also great that he had this stat at his disposal last night. You know he's been keeping tabs on this, feeling sorry for his fellow catchers that had the misfortune of dealing with what he's been dealing with.

Miggy was definitely a big part of these good Cubs teams, though. He had a huge role in getting us rolling in 2015. And he was a great presence that year. It's shitty how it ended. But I'll think none of it. I'll remember the playoff heroics and his goofiness and upbeat demeanor when things were going well. #wearegood

lmaooooooooooooo i didn't see that Yeah, he said Salvador Perez has only thrown out 1 of 11 base stealers because Hammel won't hold people on... lmao

My favorite part of this ordeal is that he also decided to call out Jason Hammel, who plays for a different team.

i believe it; we've been angrier than usual at the umps so much of this is pitcher-influenced it seems too, catching guys with poor command like Jake, Butler, and maybe Monty (also, losing Hendricks) puts you behind the 8-ball for setting a good frame Definitely. And BP tries to account for this with their framing metric. There was a thing when Russell Martin went to Toronto and went from really good to horrible at Statcorner, and it was because he had to start catching R.A. Dickey. Statcorner kinda sucks. BP tries to account for pitchers, their wildness, what pitches they are throwing, who is umpiring, etc. BP has Willson above average this year. It's definitely because we've got a bunch of shitty pitchers right now.

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Life comes at you fast, but not as fast as Trea Turner.

I think they might side with Miggy and send Rizzo packing.

Bad. Unclear if better than Montero. Yeah. Tommy Birch was on the radio this morning, basically said scouts were iffy on him early on but lately the reports on his defense have gotten much better. Hmm... BP and Clay Davenport both hate his defense this year a lot less than they have in the past.

Yeah I mean he's partially right as discussed in the game thread last night but that's a really horsefeathers move to directly call out a teammate to deflect blame from yourself. Looks especially bad when you are 0-31 at throwing out runners this year regardless of pitcher and you have the 2nd slowest recorded pop time of any catcher in the majors. He could barely get the ball past the mound on the fly. Hopefully it's Caratini time, anyone have any thoughts on him defensively? If you didn't like Miggy's defense, I've got some bad news about Caratini.

That's all the rage when you are in D.C. these days.

Damn

He just stole second base on Miguel Montero.

Thank you for your service, Sammy.

Things are fine. montero is quietly kind of a bad teammate between stuff like this and openly complaining about not playing enough last year. Not so quietly anymore.

Looking at the stolen bases tonight: Trea Turner is really fast and he's an excellent base runner. 32/37 on the year, despite missing a couple weeks on the DL. That's with a .314 OBP. This is his third game with 3+ steals in the last three weeks. He's going to do that and there's not much you can do about it. After looking at each of the steals, there were 4 that Miggy didn't even make a throw. 3 were with Turner running. No catcher was throwing him out on any of them. The fourth was with Michael Taylor running, who is also very fast. That pitch was low and outside, almost in the dirt. There was also a runner on third. And Miggy didn't stand a chance of getting Taylor either. One throw was the one to third, that he threw in the outfield. Bad. The two throws to second, with me stopwatching by hand, I have Miggy's pop times between 2.0-2.1. Below average. I saw an article that Statcast had the average pop time at 2.01 seconds last year. So he's not good there. Statcast also had the average exchange time for catchers at 0.73 seconds. I have Miggy below that on both of them. His arm strength is obviously terrible. But he's able to be not-so-terrible by getting rid of the ball pretty quickly. Meanwhile, Arrieta's release time is over 1.5 seconds on every pitch. I have him up around 1.7 on some pitches. The league average is like 1.4. Some guys are below 1.2. Looking at some of Jon Lester's work, he is usually always below 1.4, near 1.3. We're looking at .3 seconds difference or so between the two. Arrieta also is right-handed, has a shitty pickoff move, and does a poor job of holding runners and mixing up his timing to throw them off. Turner was taking off nearly instantly after he started lifting his leg. Arrieta is just really, really bad at limiting base runners. A lot of our pitchers are bad at it. What Willson has done with his arm is amazing. Looking at some of his caught stealings, he's getting pop times below 1.8. That is superb. He's also very accurate with most of his throws, which is also a key. Miggy's not. The throws bounced in and thrown into the outfield are definitely a problem. But if it weren't for Willson being a freaking beast, then this would be happening to us all the time.

Miggy's comments are unbelievable. It's really gauche. And for him to not take any responsibility is pathetic. That said... I think he's right. He stands no chance of throwing guys out when Arrieta is pitching. Willson barely does, and he's got a freaking cannon. If you subbed Miggy out for any catcher with an average arm, they wouldn't throw anyone out with Arrieta on the mound, either. Either Willson needs to catch every game the rest of the season, or you need to find some random replacement player that happens to have this hidden cannon of an arm. I don't know where you'd find that. Maybe the only place to find that is from that guy that is working in the front office.

Miggy called out Joe Maddon for giving guys too much time off in September last year, when both of those guys were still on the roster. He also called him out after getting drunk with Ross and Fowler at a World Series championship parade.

Kris Bryant over Jon Gray looks better and better every day.

Great night for the kids!