Yes, 2 on the South Side, but the rule for the Crosstown Cup is that in the event of a tie, whoever won the Crosstown Cup the year prior retains it. The Cubs have won 2 of the 4 games, thus retain the Crosstown Cup
Cubs win the Crosstown Cup for the 3rd consecutive year. They’ve now won it 7 times vs 8 for the White Sox.
Maybe the Cubs would have been swept by any other team in baseball but I don’t care a win is a horsefeathers win and we’ve been desperate for them so Go Cubs!
I tried to mostly keep quiet when Happ was struggling and everyone wanted him booted off the team. Maybe I said a thing or two out of frustration but I thought the discourse was a bit over the top (not just here, Cubs Twitter was actually much worse).
Don't get me wrong, Happ is a flawed player and I can totally understand people wishing we didn't extend him for a variety of reasons. But I always expected Happ to come back around this year and he clearly has. He's a solid major league hitter and has value to this team. We seemingly go through this cycle every year with Happ.
I don’t now know about having no life to them but they are remarkably deficient in so many areas. I can’t believe how poorly these pieces fit together and how exposed the holes on the roster get on a daily basis.
Just catching up, horsefeathers Gomes is 12-79 with a 47% strikeout rate. Even as a backup catcher that’s atrocious especially when you consider he’s last in the league in framing runs and terrible at throwing out runners. He should not be on a major league roster anymore. Sorry Yan
Busch is also rated significantly higher defensively. As much as I value a power bat in the Cubs lineup, I've never seen the appeal of Pete Alonso on the Cubs for a variety of reasons.
OK then he's the 12th best starter we've faced this year by FIP. Not saying he can't be hit...he just gave up 4 runs in 5 IP to the Brewers last week (shocker). Just kind of in awe of how effective he's been after being such a below average dude in Washington.
He's 7th in baseball in pitcher bWAR at 2.6. The only starter we've faced this year with a higher bWAR is Houck from Boston. Obviously pitcher WAR is flawed but at least by that metric he's really solid.
Kind of crazy, another one of those mediocre/bad starters that goes overseas and comes back much improved. 5.41 career ERA in 6 seasons with Washington, now one of the best starters in baseball so far this year.