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Cubs (Holmes) vs Reds (Burns): 9/18/26, 5:40pm
UMFan83 replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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Cubs (Holmes) vs Reds (Burns): 9/18/26, 5:40pm
UMFan83 replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
The AL playoff bracket is insane. One of the ALCS teams is likely going to come from one of these 3 teams: Astros (77-76) Guardinans (78-75) White Sox (78-75) While the other team will come from one of these 3 teams: Rays (93-59) Yankees (88-64) Red Sox (83-70) -
I wouldn’t call it worrying, I was asked why I prefer the Phillies less than the others. They’re all around the same level of skill, so little things like ballpark factors make the difference in preference
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Well for one we’ve given up more HRs than we’ve hit lol
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I want to play in ballparks that suppress HRs. Petco likely will (though the games might be during the day where it carries better), Wrigley is more likely to have the wind blowing in. Citizens Bank Park a launching pad usually.
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Obviously I'd prefer to play at Wrigley but I'm at the point where I'm find letting the chips fall where they may with the caveat that I want to avoid a series at Philly as much as possible.
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Padres about to beat the Rockies, will put them 1 GB the Cubs (essentially 2 with the tiebreaker) with 9 to play. Hopefully the Phillies can somehow lose tonight and also fall to 1 GB
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PCA has more career fWAR as a Cub than the following players: Alfonso Soriano Ryan Dempster Mark Prior Andre Dawson Jon Lester Rogers Hornsby Willson Contreras Bruce Sutter Lee Smith Leon Durham Randy Hundley Starlin Castro Up next: Hank Sauer, Ken Holtzman, Jake Arrieta, Javier Baez
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Not that we're worried about simply making the playoffs anymore, but for the first time (I believe) all season, the Cubs have entered the day with 99.9% playoff odds per fangraphs. It was 99.8% ~2 weeks ago, dipped to around 96% and slowly has been making its way back up.
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It’s insane that it’s 8-3 in the 9th and I’m biting my nails
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This is unreal
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Oh you thought you were going to get through this easy?
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This game is not pen proof
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Runner on 3rd 1 out what can go wrong? oh, yeah that
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I get it but the odds of all 3 being out virtually the entire season are pretty low. I'm not absolving them for building such a ****** pitching staff, but they did build SP depth, it just needed to be anchored with maybe 2 of those 3 guys.
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Thinking about taking my kids to a final game this year tonight. Any truth to the rumor that bleacher prices are twice as high when Imanaga is pitching?
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and also injuries. This team looks a lot different with some combination of Steele, Horton and Brown in the rotation, though obviously bullpen issues don't change (though they've had their share of injuries too).
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Yeah my thought is that our bullpen sucks but maybe the one strength we have is a lot of somewhat competent guys who can go 2-3 innings. Our 1 inning/matchup guys have been terrible so might as well lean into the strength.
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Honestly our playoff staff should just be a bunch of people prepared to pitch multiple innings....doesnt matter who the starter is or who comes in after. 5 inning max for Holmes and Gausman, everyone else be prepared to go 3-4 innings 3-5 inning guys: Holmes Gausman Imanaga Boyd Assad Civale Peterson Steele (ok probably not stretched out but maybe 2) Rea Cabrera ---- 1 inning guys: Rollison Palencia Zeferjahn No Webb, no Thielbar, no Thornton, etc I'll let the smart people determine who should be paired up together but an example would be G1: Holmes (5), Civale (3), Rollison (1) G2: Gausman (5), Peterson (4) G3: Imanaga (3), Boyd (3), Steele (2), Zeferjahn (1)
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So if the Padres and DBacks win we’re looking at Cubs — Phillies 0.5 Padres 0.5 ———————- Diamondbacks 3.0 10 to go…
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That’s very similar to a lot of Cabreras outings this year where he looks really sharp the first couple innings and then suddenly starts giving up hard contact
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3 home runs allowed today. We have to be getting close to some sort of record
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Why have 21 year old fireballers when you can sign a bunch of lightly regarded junk ballers and hope that your amazing pitch academy can turn a couple into average relief pitchers?
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Yeah but Padres on their way to another win. Could be 0.5 games ahead of Phillies and Padres going into tomorrow
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So it doesn’t matter if it’s the 9th or the 6th, Webb is destined to give up a 2 run HR to turn a lead into a deficit
