Aaron_Kennelly
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They should do what the Braves do with The Freeze as between-inning entertainment, except have the fan race Almora and give Almora the head start.
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Hypothetical question: How hard would the wind have to be blowing in at Wrigley for Lackey to not give up a homer?
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Crap. I forgot that I'd sworn off starting game threads until Lackey was DFA'd. He's already taken me down twice. Perhaps I should do the opposite and keep starting threads on Lackey Day until it becomes impossible not to DFA him.
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Father of the Year, Addison Russell, gets the day off.
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John Lackey's pitching. Happy Father's Day.
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This repeat game thread is for all of our fathers, who've also given up on the cobs.
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A lineup fitting of a John Lackey start.
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Because they are basically the same shitty team they were last year. (Also, they are just edging Javy in K% this year.)
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Well, that was a disappointing loss. Luckily it wasn't as disappointing as the loss that the powerhouse Brewers suffered against a team they assuredly should have beat: 19 strikeouts without a single walk. 5 home runs given up. Yikes. Btw, since the start of 2016, the Brewers, as a team, have struck out in a higher percentage of PAs than Javier Baez.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 6-18-17
Aaron_Kennelly replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Yeah. I've noticed things like these after attending more minor league games the last few years. The special players really stand out. I'm better able to notice these things when watching non-Cub prospects, too. I think it has to do with having a cognitive bias with the Cubs prospects. I know who Eloy is and have seen video of him and read countless things about him. So watching him rip the ball doesn't register as much with me. But, when I saw Kyle Tucker last year, I knew immediately that he was different from the other guys. You even notice the differences at AAA. When I saw Javy in Iowa the other year, it was easy to tell he was different from the way the ball jumped off his bat, and his arm strength, and just... everything. All the other guys looked like scrubs in comparison, even though Javy went 1-4 or something. With the other guys, it's hard to tell who is actually a prospect or not, and to what degree of prospect-hood. They are just varying levels of suck. The one biggie that's hard to get used to is fly balls dying. Meatball pitch left over the middle of the plate, batter gets all of it, hits it squarely, and... it doesn't even make it to the warning track in center. -
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Despite Davis sucking tonight, the pen has been really solid this year, and it's deep. Also, Justin Grimm since being called back up: 8IP 2H 0ER 2BB 13K
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The juiced ball has probably killed us this year, in all honesty. I'm planning on writing on article on it. But our pitchers have given up a ton of the just-barely variety of home runs and not so many no-doubters. The wind at Wrigley definitely plays a role in this, but with a non-juiced ball, we probably aren't giving up 4 homers a game, like we are now.
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Good win.
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Some really good stuff. A lot of the areas we've struggled in, that We Got the Whole 9 has mentioned... we did those things well. They were legit hits. Crisp line drives. The 6 hits were all between 0-20° launch angle. Four of them went the other way. Really good to see.
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Hell yes!
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Good stuff. Bust it wide open.
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Hey hey!
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JD is right, though. That long Addi AB was huge in getting Rivero out immediately. The Pirates use him for more than one inning quite often.
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There ya go, J-Hey.
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He did not go.
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The NL Central sucks. The only team ahead of us in the standings is a bad baseball team. I won't concede anything until we are mathematically eliminated, however horribly we play. It isn't so much that I'm confident that we'll magically turn things around as it is that I don't think we really even need to turn things around. I do not want to put words in your mouth or misrepresent what you just wrote, but are you saying you think the Cubs are an average team? No. I think an average team can win the division. And I think we've been average. I do think we'll get better, though. And if we do, the division will be a breeze.
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The NL Central sucks. The only team ahead of us in the standings is a bad baseball team. I won't concede anything until we are mathematically eliminated, however horribly we play. It isn't so much that I'm confident that we'll magically turn things around as it is that I don't think we really even need to turn things around.
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What could go wrong? Butler had just given up a HR to Bell last time. Also, he's Eddie Butler.
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Horseshit