UMFan83
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It's crazy how it just happens out of the blue. Baseball is a weird sport and the Cubs are a weird team that seem to slump and streak together. -
Baseball gods realized that Little was starting to figure it out and had to put a stop to that. Can't have healthy and reliable bullpen arms on the Cubs
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Oh sweet another bullpen injury
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I was a pretty big Kyle defender and even I gave up on him quite awhile ago. While this is an awesome development, it doesn't really surprise me given what we've seen from Kyle over the last decade.
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Michael Busch is a great reminder that sometimes you just need to let guys figure horsefeathers out. He was a complete disaster at 1B to start the season, now he's rating as average defensively. He looked so damn lost offensively for a good chunk of the season and while there's maybe still BABIP concerns there, he's got an .853 OPS for the season and on pace for more than 4 wins this year. Basically what I'm saying is, stick with Miles Mastrobuoni as your everyday 3B. He's gotta figure it out eventually (ok I'm not saying that)
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For 2.5 freaking months I’ve been saying it’s just a bad stretch and teams get hot and cold throughout a long season and for 2.5 months the Cubs continued to suck until we all gave up and then and only then they decided to play well again.
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Busch is awesome
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Seiya makes some very questionable decisions in RF
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I’m pretty sure my subscription to NSBB Premium back in 2004 guaranteed me access to all paywalled content in perpetuity, just tell @Tim, he’ll straighten this out for me.
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I was at a 0.5/10 care a few days ago. I'm at a 1.5/10 now. We knew they would eventually have to play a better at some point, they weren't a 55 win caliber team. They still have a shitload of ground to make up. They showed they could (almost) do it last year and their starting pitching will keep them in most games, but it would still take a prolonged stretch of great play to make it interesting. The only difference is, I don't think Jed is as eager to sell as he was last year (nor does he have the chips to do so) so they probably have a bit more time to work with assuming they showed some sustained improvement.
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Still in a "believe it when I see it" mode but interesting...
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The Orioles are 1-4 against the Cubs over the last 2 seasons and 157-91 against everyone else
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Cubs have won their past 2 series. Prior to that they were 1-13 in their previous 14 series of 3 games or more. Weird ass team
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that was pretty awesome
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So congrats to Spain for winning the Euros!
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Dansby now 1 for his last 29
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Yeah I was gonna say, this Cubs team is not exactly known for taking advantage of good pitching matchups lol
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Baltimore is kind of dumpy like Cincinnati, maybe they tricked him into thinking he was there.
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Ok Ian makes it all better
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Dude what the horsefeathers hell Seiya?
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I haven’t really been paying attention much lately, why is Mastorbuoni all the sudden playing every game? Who am I missing that is injured? Looking at his game logs he’s certainly not getting starts based on merit.
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Yeah...hes only 12 innings behind him, but not that wins mean anything but Shota has 7, Steele just got his 1st on Friday. But their numbers look pretty similar ERA: Steele - 2.95, Shota - 3.16 FIP: Steele - 3.33, Shota - 3.39 WHIP - Steele - 0.99, Shota 1.10 K/9 - Steele - 8.7, Shota 9.1 bWAR - Steele 1.5, Shota 1.7 I know there's much better metrics out there, just doing a quick BR glance.. They've both had their ERAs propped up by a high number of UERs (Steele 7, Shota 6). Honestly either one would have been fine, Steele has slightly better numbers but Shota has more IP and is a slightly better story.
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Damn double post
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agreed that its cool and its an acceptable all star selection. it could have easily have been Steele but the considering how electric he was earlier in the season, I can see why he was selected over him...the numbers seem pretty close overall
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FWIW, at least according to Baseball Reference Happ has had a higher oWAR (so removing defense from the equation) in both 2023 and 2024. Using oWAR/162 games played for comparison purposes... 2023: Happ - 3.0, Morel - 2.4 2024: Happ - 3.3, Morel - 1.1
