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Charcer Burks homer.

7 shutout innings from the big fella tonight.

We don't need another bat.

This was a good article. I'm glad to see Jon decide to talk about it. Hopefully his frustration will continue to abate as we find ways to combat the issue. He really just needs to be calm and not worry about the runners and let everyone else take care of that horsefeathers. And hopefully that might help him some, too, like it did against the Cards. If I could tell Jon one thing it's that not everyone was focused on his yips instead of his run prevention in the playoffs last year. We know what he did for us. :hello:

Judging by the WHIP disparity and the K/BB being similar, it looks a lot like he was getting BABIP'd.

Get 20

Miggy was right. #weareback

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sontensei was my favorite poster on this board. The homophobic tirade caught me off guard.

When he said Coghlan should be our second baseman?

Strained lat for Zastryzny. Strained bat for Schwarber.

All of those "Do the Cubs regret trading Gleyber and not Schwarber?" takes, and now only one of them can lead their AAA team to the playoffs.

PTR's not going to be able to afford all these trips back and forth.

Agreed. But the total lack of small ball I think will keep us in mediocrity offensively. I'm feeling a lot better about the team as a whole but there are still several glaring weaknesses and batting average is certainly one of them. We are "only" .017 points lower on BA this year than last year, so about 6-7% off, we hit .256 last year with a .302 BABIP and are at .239 with a .278 BABIP this year. So it's not like we are woefully off of where we were last year. Yeah. And I agree that this has been a problem. I don't agree that it will keep us down. I think they'll turn it around. These are guys who have hit the ball well before. Talent will win out with the offense. It's already started to turn around in June. Look no further than Rizzo. He started out the year as probably the biggest problem on the team, outside of Schwarber maybe, as far as what kind of contact he was getting and how he was putting balls in play. He's completely turned it around in June. Tons of line drives. Lots of hard contact. Not much weak contact. Keeping the ball off the ground. It just isn't likely that all of these guys forgot how to hit or something. They've shown the same approaches. They've shown they still have power. It's just been fluky that they have all decided to stop hitting line drives at the same time. We've had a really weird and fluky first half. But, eventually, Ben Zobrist and Kris Bryant are going to start hitting line drives and getting balls to fall in.

Jeez guys, it's one freaking game. We've played better lately. And you go back to full ninny after one loss.

Good time for KB to get going.

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Those are good points and he did look like his usual ugly somehow effective self... he hasn't been usually effective, he sucks ? He has a 4.19 ERA, and if the Cubs hold on here, they'd be 5-3 in games started by Butler. I think his description is apt.

I'm perfectly OK with Eddie Butler being a terrible pitcher but eating up innings with solid results.

Eddie Butler's pitching. Happy Wednesday.

#wearegood

Alright, I'm starting to come around on Happ. The power is legit. And he's provided more defensively than I imagined he would. He's still got a lot to work on, but he can play.

Monty is going to work out just fine in the rotation. I love all that weak contact. Keep dropping that walk rate down.

Thank god Lackey won't be on the mound when the nonsense starts tonight.