Aaron_Kennelly
-
Posts
11,482 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Joomla Posts 1
Chicago Cubs Videos
Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking
News
2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
Guides & Resources
2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
The Chicago Cubs Players Project
2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker
Blogs
Events
Forums
Store
Gallery
Everything posted by Aaron_Kennelly
-
That was awesome.
-
This sucks so much. He was so good and so fun to watch. And he was so freaking young. And then I heard he had a young one on the way... I'm so broken up about this. He seemed like a genuinely kind person. And he had so much fun when he played baseball. All of these stories that I am hearing are really getting to me. He was full of joy and passion and a love of life. And his backstory is heartbreaking and inspiring. I really can't believe this. He had a huge impact on so many people. I am devastated.
-
and i just discovered i was like 4-5 minutes behind on the dvr Spoiler alert: We don't win.
-
Willie just pimped a homer, down six runs. hahaha
-
They just showed Jed on the screen, watching the game. Theo wasn't present, probably because he was inside taking a baseball bat to a television set.
-
He's been pretty darn efficient with the pitch count, anyway. 99 in 7 innings is an average of 14.1 per inning. Anything less than 15 is really solid. The lowest average on the season of any qualified starter this season is 14.3 for Nova. In a playoff game, he gives you 8 scoreless on 113 pitches and you hand the ball over to Chapman. Can't ask for much more than that. Yeah this is true. I guess thinking about it, with the artificial 100 pitch count ceiling we've had recently, 7 innings is pretty good. Even 2015 God Mode Jake had plenty of 7 inning outings. Yeah, it definitely seems a little different with how careful we've been to keep guys healthy. And sometimes you'll see a guy cruise through a game really efficiently, like a Porcello or Bartolo Colon, where they only throw 95 pitches in a complete game or whatever. But who wants that anyway, when you can have this? Even with a guy like Kershaw, who is really efficient and works deep into games, sometimes he has to exert himself to get into the 9th. 115 isn't really that big of a deal for the big, bad studs like those guys.
-
*Eagerly awaiting the Brooks Baseball data tonight*
-
K's don't increase pitch counts. they require more pitches than other types of outs if you're pitching well and getting outs, a high strikeout start is going to typically take more pitches than otherwise obviously, if you're not pitching well and not getting outs, and giving up lots of hits and runs, that is not going to result in a low pitch count either He's been pretty darn efficient with the pitch count, anyway. 99 in 7 innings is an average of 14.1 per inning. Anything less than 15 is really solid. The lowest average on the season of any qualified starter this season is 14.3 for Nova. In a playoff game, he gives you 8 scoreless on 113 pitches and you hand the ball over to Chapman. Can't ask for much more than that.
-
Yeah seriously, I know why they were trying Contreras with him a bunch but they seem the most comfortable together and you really want the best framer with Arrieta you can get Agreed. Nothing against Willie, either. And I think he would be fine catching him. If god-mode is activated, it doesn't matter too much who is catching him. I really don't think his struggles had anything to do with who was catching him. That being said... god-mode Arrieta is special. It is a unique tool that can be used to inflict blunt force trauma. You want to give him everything he needs to be himself. If he feels more confident with Miggy catching him, then that's what you roll with. And Miggy definitely can help him more, with his framing ability -- which is very important, with all the movement on his stuff. And we've seen what god-mode Arrieta can do. What did he win, 20-some straight starts? That's a guy where you don't need anyone else to even show up to the park. You just let him take the bump and you win. You don't worry about your batting order. You don't worry about matchups. You just win. So give him the best opportunity to win. Also, Miggy has been much better lately, anyway.
-
Fantastic.
-
Definitely. I just meant "compared to what we were used to seeing."
-
in reality, THIS guy is our best starter. True. Which means our third-best pitcher might win the Cy Young.
-
Baseball is so stupid. Last year, god-mode Arrieta was in effect for months, right up through the end of the season. And it was ceaseless, too. Every single pitch in every single game was a god-mode Arrieta pitch. And then it disappeared in flash, somewhere around the 5th inning of the Wild Card Game, when he finally ran out of gas. This year, he's looked like horsefeathers for the better part of the last three or four months. And, then suddenly, he re-appears, right when we need him the most. It's hilarious that he could struggle (relatively) like he has and then possibly be a bigger weapon this post-season.
-
This guy is our third-best starter.
-
God-mode Arrieta is just the best, too. He's basically Hendricks with balls in play, combined with a ton of strikeouts.
-
Possibly better. I want an article on the return of GMJ I'll see what I can do. Won't be until at least Sunday.
-
Possibly better.
-
Man, they suck.
-
they kind of suck everywhere except for hitting HRs, Carlos Martinez and possibly Reyes Until he hurt his oblique, Carpenter was just generally awesome. Yeah, but he just looks like a weirdo. Do they have any likable people on their team? They seem like they would be miserable to follow.
-
Finish them!
-
They suck so bad defensively.
-
I really didn't think there was much else in the regular season for me to be excited about. And then god-mode Arrieta showed up as the death knell to the Cardinals' season.
-
You can really tell why one of these teams is going to win 105 games and the other is going to miss the playoffs.
-
Kyle Hendricks: Somehow Greg Maddux
Aaron_Kennelly replied to Aaron_Kennelly's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Also, the top four guys on his adjusted contact score list -- Hendricks, Martinez, Roark, Arrieta -- are the four guys I identified as FIP-beaters (along with Tyler Chatwood, who apparently didn't have enough innings to qualify for his list) in my article about Hendricks.