Aaron_Kennelly
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There's no "kinda" about it. It would be interesting to go back to the Wade thread and see the reactions at the time. Definitely not universal praise. In fact, the furthest thing from it. But, there was also concern he wouldn't be healthy. I suppose that is still a concern that lingers. But he's horsefeathering nails right now. He's pitching at the level he was at when he was at his very best.
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There's no "kinda" about it.
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96 and then a 92 cutter. damn, Wade.
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That is May 3rd, for those of you in the first Javy unintentional walk pool.
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Random In-season Musings and Rumors
Aaron_Kennelly replied to Post Count Padder's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Zobrist makes that play...
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lol at our catcher being able to do that
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Willy!
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Hmm... I like the run. But I also like when Miggy has the bases loaded.
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Arrieta would be doing pretty good if he didn't suck so much.
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That's stupid.
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Who would be better in RF: Zobrist or Miggy?
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Alright, we gave up the minimum in the first! (That is the minimum amount of runs a team is allowed to give up, right?)
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John Lackey won Employee of the Month for April.
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Also if the Wrigley guns are slow 1 mph. Then, assuming 50/50 home and road starts, we'd expect their averages to be down about .5 mph on the whole. They are down 2 mph or more in some cases.
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Seems to me that would have been a good place to compare velocities of non-Cubs pitchers at Wrigley and away from Wrigley. Yeah, that's the data that matters. This data really doesn't mean anything. Let's assume our pitchers were ramping up the velocity as time went on. (I don't actually think this was by design. As gilby said the other day in some thread, there's just no way Arrieta is going to be like, "Sure, skip, I'll serve up 88 mph meatballs for the first month of the season in a contract year.) But let's say it was a byproduct of them easing into things this spring and coming off a long year. And they'll be fine eventually; they just need to get built back up. Well the velo has been up in the most recent starts. So that fits. Except... those starts were on the road. So of course home/road numbers aren't going to tell us horsefeathers for our own guys who are going through this.
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If we win the division at 85-77, can we just do a Bullpen Game for every game of the playoffs?
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It's not like we are going to have to replace all five guys. I think these versions of Arrieta and Lester can reasonably fill in as #4 and #5 starters. We just need to add a 1, a 2, and a 3.
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About the velocity leap from Lester his last time out... all of his pitches were back down last night.
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Javy against RH pitching this year: .340/.360/.681 All of his extra-base hits have come against righties.
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So this guy is even better than he was last year.
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Javy really should have went for two there. Even if the throw beat him by 50 feet, I'm sure he could have Javy'd his way past the tag.