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  1. UMFan83
    2nd straight game I’m listening to the Bleacher Creatures do their role call with the Yankees already losing lol
  2. UMFan83
    Busch really is Anthony Rizzo reincarnated
  3. UMFan83
    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
  4. UMFan83
    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.
  5. UMFan83
    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
  6. UMFan83
    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
  7. UMFan83
    Doesn’t seem that bad. 8th in xFIP over the last 14 days. The actual FIP is 22nd though so a bit unlucky
  8. UMFan83
    Please don’t have to get Palencia up
  9. UMFan83
    3 outs, 0 runs and 14 pitches away from a Maddux for Boyd edit: but I have a feeling Craig will pull him
  10. UMFan83
    Boyd has celebrated making the ASG by throwing 11 shutout innings, giving up 5 hits and 1 walk
  11. UMFan83
    Geez. Judges out had a .950 xBA, hit 109.3 mph, went 409 feet and is out in 24/30 parks
  12. UMFan83
    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)
  13. UMFan83
    87 wRC+ against all LHP since that 5/24 date. But 100 over the last month, so clearly a dip and then improvement.
  14. UMFan83
    I'll take a leadoff triple
  15. UMFan83
    They have the 2nd highest wRC+ against LHP in the NL this year.
  16. UMFan83
    Well hopefully we’re still in first by the end of the weekend
  17. UMFan83
    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.
  18. UMFan83
    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.
  19. UMFan83
    If the top option available was a lefty would that be less attractive for you? I saw Gore from the Nats mentioned in an article here recently. No doubter to add a pitcher of his caliber with team control, but would it be an issue to have your top 3 starters entering a playoff series (Shota, Gore, Boyd) all being LHP? For some matchups it might be an advantage but others it might be a death sentence.
  20. UMFan83
    Seriously, I'm very interested in knowing how far off they were.
  21. UMFan83
    Rereading the Bold Predictions thread looking for PCA predictions and even the ones that were very optimistic about PCA understated how good he would be.
  22. UMFan83
    I don't claim to be an expert in these things but I have a hard time understanding how he could be unfortunate while being in the 1 percentile in exit velocity and 4 percentile in hard hit %
  23. UMFan83
    Also it looks like the Twins are perfectly fine winning the first 2 games of the series with Paddack still in there.
  24. UMFan83
    Ahh yes one of those series where were score almost all of our runs in one game.
  25. UMFan83
    Shaw is so tough to watch at the plate sadly
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