UMFan83
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Sad that I feel more confident about Happ, Nico and Busch coming up than I was about Morel, Bellinger and Seiya. And I have no confidence in all with Nico right now. -
Should have horsefeathers stole 3rd. Worst BA in baseball over the last 7 weeks. You have a guy in the game that is 12-12 on SB. They already threw back to 2B twice as Bellingers AB was going. I understand Bellinger is your cleanup hitter but the whole team can’t hit just horsefeathers get him to third and hope for a productive out, which is exactly what Bellinger did. But of course the heart of the order failed and the Cubs are on their way to yet another 1 run loss with virtually no offense
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Of course diving catch lol
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Steal 3rd PCA
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Only been 2 months, just a bad stretch
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For the billionth time our catchers come up in a critical spot and fail. Dansby had pitches to hit in his AB and couldn’t put them in play knowing a pitcher quality hitter was up after him so I blame him.
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a run, yippee
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this offense is dogsh!t I know they've had some small peaks during the stretch but overall a .638 OPS as a team over their last 45 games. Offense is down this year but league average is still .700. Though as bad as that's been, there are still 2 teams worth a worse OPS for the season, the Marlins (.632) and White Sox (.630)
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Shocker something doesnt go our way. Thus ends our stretch of 1 consecutive things going our way.
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Looked safe but not convincing enough to overturn. We'll see
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Love how that's going to count as a hit for the Cubs with RISP even though it didn't score a run.
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Nothing better than watching the Cubs lose on an obscure streaming broadcast channel that keeps freezing and disconnecting with Chip Caray doing PBP.
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Pages' HR seems to have broken statcast. It doesn't have an exit velo or distance, it just says the xBA was .080
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I didn’t watch today so going through baseball savant to see what I missed. The 4 hardest hit balls of the day were all by the Cubs and those 4 batted balls produced 5 outs 1. Morel - 109.2, .450 xBA, groundout 2. Suzuki - 106.8, .890 xBA, lineout 3. Hoerner, 103.5, .530 xBA, groundout 4. Tauchman, 103.5, .420 xBA, GIDP Actually the Cubs had the 6 hardest hit balls, luckily 5 and 6 were both singles. But as ****** as the Cubs have played, it seems like they’re also getting super unlucky. edit: that said Happ’s HR would have only been out in 2 other parks so I guess some luck there.
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Didn’t hold up though. Would have been hilarious if Italy went down
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Dammit Happ you ruined my “the Cubs have been literally completely incapable of taking a lead of larger than 2 runs for a month” stat. oh, umm I mean go Cubs yay
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Starting pitching has done its job again and then some. But here we are in the exact same situation we are in every game, bullpen has to get outs with no margin for error otherwise we lose because we can't horsefeathers hit.
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Holy heck, I honestly haven’t been paying close attention in terms of who is pitching for the opponents the last few days because I’ve been trying to avoid watching them. Yesterday’s starter had a 5.13 ERA this year coming into the game. Today’s starter is a 12 year veteran with a 4.51 career ERA. They combined for 14 innings, 5 hits and 0 ER.
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All season even when things were bad we could say "at least we aren't digging as big of a hole as last year". Well the 2024 Cubs have a 33-37 record after 70 games, matching the 2023 Cubs. Lovely.
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About 2/3rds of their active payroll is going to 6 players: Dansby Bellinger Happ Seiya Taillon Hendricks They've combined for 3.6 fWAR this year. Though in terms of how they rank on the team they are 5th (Swanson), 3rd (Bellinger), 7th (Happ), 6th (Seiya), 5th for pitchers (Taillon) and...23rd (Hendricks).
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My post was dripping in sarcasm, its actually the opposite. The Cubs are supposedly a large market team playing in a division with minnows and cant do anything about it. The rest of baseball should be complaining how unfair it is for the Cubs to play in a division with a bunch of small market teams but they have no reason to.
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Wait we don't really do that either. Basically all we do is get good starting pitching and let the offense and bullpen battle it out for who wants to be the primary reason for losing a given game.
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Plus you have to be like good at situational hitting to be successful there. Not like, you know, getting thrown out at home 293284538 times on a "go on contact" play. And probably need to have a good bullpen because margins of games are going to more likely be closer. Also have a team that plays good fundamental baseball with defense and baserunning. The Cubs have none of the components needed to be a good small ball team outside of solid SP and Pete Crow Armstrong.
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Yeah but I mean its hard to beat all the big market teams in this division. There's a reason we haven't won a division title in a full season since 2017 - just too many big market teams throwing their resources around.
