Aaron_Kennelly

Jason Vosler's hit 10 homers already.

Great to hear these reports on Alzolay. We've long needed a random pitcher to breakout. There's a lot to like with him right now. He's never had much issue with his control. He's always had decent periphs. But the last few weeks, he's been tough to hit and is striking out everybody. And positive reports on velo/stuff to go with it.

W! Let's do that again tomorrow.

Also convert Lackey into defense instructor.

To be fair, what's Kyle supposed to do when this jackass is calling those pitches strikes?

Dex goes to hell on earth, and so do we.

Man, we are just ripping the ball.

Yeah, I thought Zobrist should lead off in the off-season. And he'd be great there. But if you feel you need him behind Rizzo, at least for now, I can see it. But this version of Heyward would also be a pretty good fit there. Happ is scary as hell right now. He needs to do his own thing and figure horsefeathers out down lower in the order. We've got four veterans that have their horsefeathers together. Put them 1-4, in some order.

He must be upset about not being the best hitter on his own team.

do they all have to be in one season? Yes, but we can also include all the minor league teams named "Cubs."

I'm beginning to think they might not get to my prediction of 117 wins.

I'm not sure if I can watch this team for more than 9 innings right now.

It honestly might be.

Schimpf hitting a ground ball against Jake is honestly more surprising than him homering off of Jake.

PTR can't afford replacing all these broken bats, guys.

Javy for third starter.

What's Edwin Jackson up to these days?

0% chance that was getting out. He could have hit it 200 mph.

Do we?: 1. Take an early 2-0 lead only to watch Jake give up a couple three-run bombs in the 4th and 5th innings, on the way to an 8-3 loss. or... 2. Fall behind 3-0 after the first and lose 4-2.

I wonder about that. Have you seen him, or gotten good reports? I'd never seen the guy until spring training TV game. In that particular game, he looked like a liability defensively. Seemed kind of slow, dropped a ball that he got his glove on, and that I think would have been a pretty easy catch for somebody who wasn't as slow. Then seemed to have a hard time getting down to field a single in front of him, kind of fumbled it around. I was surprised by what a burly-chested top-heavy guy he was. Physically looked like one of the stronger wrestler-looking bodies on the team, more like Schwarber than a normal baseball guy. But, that was just a couple of plays, so who knows, and I'm no scout. But wasn't what I was expecting. I had these memories of supposedly running well and having base-stealing potential (he never actually did); talk about him perhaps playing some 2B (he never did); perhaps playing some CF (he hardly ever did). And of course the reports of lacking HR power. So I was surprised he looked more like a DH-slugger than like a fast limited-power utility guy. I saw him in Iowa last year. I don't remember much of him defensively. There wasn't anything that stood out one way or the other, though. I was struck by how thick he was when I saw him, too. He's definitely got a big upper half.

That's really good news. I was envisioning Caratini missing the rest of the year or something close to it.

Butters is a benevolent leader, grabbing the reins on an Eddie Butler start.

Looks like Scalpy McScalperson got kicked out at just the right time.