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xBA of some Cubs outs today: Seiya’s out - .560 Busch’s out - .460 Brujan’s out - .380 Swanson’s out - .570 PCA’s out - .850 Busch’s out - .600 Nico’s out - .460 Kelly’s GIDP - .370 Cubs have the 6 highest exit velo’s today and 12 of the top 14 -
Hilariously large strike zone for the Cubs batters today. and more line drives hit right to people
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FireJoeMorgan would have had a field day with you back in the day
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Unlucky game so far…
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In general sure but weird time to call it out when he hit a 104.3 mph line drive with a .570 xBA. Hardest batted ball in the game so far.
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Promising start to the inning ruined by a 104mph line drive right to someone, a bad strike call that threw off Nico’s AB and whatever Brujan does
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The other thing I like about this lineup is I believe the Yankees only have 1 lefty in the pen and he pitched an inning yesterday so probably can’t go long today.
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2nd straight game I’m listening to the Bleacher Creatures do their role call with the Yankees already losing lol
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Busch really is Anthony Rizzo reincarnated
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At a minimum I want to make the NLDS. It’s been 8 years since we’ve been. Obviously we can easily win the Wild Card round but definitely much more of a crapshoot
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They definitely won't play 116 win baseball all year but they now have the 2nd best RD in the NL and 4th in baseball and are 17-7 against +.500 teams during their run. They're a good team. But I generally agree that the Cubs have the ability to improve themselves more than the Brewers and that they'll slow down to some degree.
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Believe the Brewers are now 30-12 in their last 42. Basically playing at a 116-46 pace for over 25% of a 162 game season. At least the Cubs are guaranteed to at least be in a tie for 1st at the ASB
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Nats got a big 2 run HR to take a 1 run lead over the Brewers in the 8th, however Brewers have 2 on and 1 out so
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Doesn’t seem that bad. 8th in xFIP over the last 14 days. The actual FIP is 22nd though so a bit unlucky
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Please don’t have to get Palencia up
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3 outs, 0 runs and 14 pitches away from a Maddux for Boyd edit: but I have a feeling Craig will pull him
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Boyd has celebrated making the ASG by throwing 11 shutout innings, giving up 5 hits and 1 walk
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Geez. Judges out had a .950 xBA, hit 109.3 mph, went 409 feet and is out in 24/30 parks
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But they really haven’t fallen off THAT hard Last 7 days: 107 wRC+ Last 14 days: 99 wRC+ Last 30 days: 100 wRC+ maybe by level off you mean going from very good to average, which if so that’s fair. But like here are some other NL contenders wRC+ vs LHP over the last 30 days: NYM: 58 SFG: 58 STL: 67 (BTW MIL leads all of baseball at 144)
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87 wRC+ against all LHP since that 5/24 date. But 100 over the last month, so clearly a dip and then improvement.
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I'll take a leadoff triple
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They have the 2nd highest wRC+ against LHP in the NL this year.
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Well hopefully we’re still in first by the end of the weekend
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yeah I just edited my post to point that out. It might actually be a great year to load up on lefties to get through the NL. Possibly the 3 best teams in the AL (NYY, DET, HOU) seem to hit much better against LHP than RHP, but I'll gladly take that problem if it means we're in the World Series.
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Yeah makes sense. Also just looking at the splits leaderboards, the top 4 teams vs. LHP in wRC+ are all in the AL (NYY, HOU, DET, BOS). The Dodgers are at 115, the Cubs are 2nd at 112 (surprise), and the Phillies are at 106. Every other NL team is under 100. Obviously Philly is above average but the only dangerous NL team IMO would be the Dodgers and they are dangerous regardless (119 wRC+ vs. RHP) Edit: Should also mention, here are a few other NL Contenders vs. LHP: Brewers - 98 Mets - 95 Padres - 91 Cardinals - 88 Reds - 79 Giants - 76 So if anything it may be an advantage to have 3 lefties topping the rotation this year.
