But I just know, for years, now, YEARS, you throw that slider, and boom, Geo's walking out the hotbox. http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=3707&position=C#pfxpitchvalues Whoops.
Eh? They're already blowing it up as fast as they can. What would even more suckage produce? A twisted (no way that's the right word but whatever) form of entertainment for myself. I have an interest in historically bad sports teams so a 40 win season would be more interesting than a 65-70 win season. That's all in a vacuum though. A season like could possibly hurt attendance and payroll and could keep good players from wanting to play here and what not. And, you know, you'd watch your team lose 30 more games.
Looking over the 5 starters throughout the league, we really should have shopped him more agressively during the offseason. Maybe we could have gotten something similar to the Gorzo return. Now if we're lucky we'll get something like the Kosuke return if someone's desperate enough. Injuries happen during the season too.
Whenever someone says this, I forget it's a shortened season and I think "hey that's not really that great." What would a 50 win season this year be equal to? A 60 win season? 62
I think they lose 100 no matter what. There isn't enough offense on this team. The pitching overall is fairly good, but if you can't hit and score runs you aren't going to win often. If Dempster is hurt for a period of time things are really going to be bleak. The Cubs need him in the rotation to obviously win games, but they also need him there for trade bait. I don't think the pitching is "fairly good" myself. This team is brutal. Exactly. I am pretty sure the Cubs have the worst bullpen in the majors. Oh, well they're not.