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I know he’s a valuable player and this is irrational but just not a fan of Dansby. I’m actually typing this during his AB because I’m sure he’ll fail to get the job done
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Better flipping get him in
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I was about to laugh my ass off if Nico got thrown out trying to stretch it to a double
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Yay either we win or I get to add to my stat. Good day for me
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Of course we don’t get that call
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The 2024 Chicago Cubs
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At least if they blow it this inning I don’t get to add to my “blown leads in the 8th inning or later” stat
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Maybe we don’t make a bullpen entirely out of castoffs. It’s worked in the past but when it doesn’t work it has the ability to almost singlehandedly alter or end seasons
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This is a rerun, we just saw this on Thursday
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Oh I see the bullpen is in
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Amaya 1 for his last 21. We’re not getting very much offensively at catcher this year. I know you aren’t supposed to get a ton from catcher but I hope Amaya can get it going.
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I care. That's a good stat to keep in mind.
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Ugh walks 4 guys, don’t love Wisdom striking out on a ball
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Unless I’m counting wrong, I think it’s Imanaga vs Darvish on Monday which is pretty cool. But yeah even though he did ok against those guys in SD that’s not a great draw for a struggling offense
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And you thought NSBB fans were bad
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Part of the issue is the offense, which has scored 4 runs or less in 15 of their last 22 games. The Cubs pen seemingly can't catch a break when every game they're needed to get 9+ outs in a close game. They're definitely a bad bullpen but one that could be minimized by winning a game 8-3 occasionally (or losing a game 8-3 I suppose, the Cubs don't do that a ton either). Instead every game is 3-1, 4-2, 4-3, 3-2, etc. It was a similar issue last September when they were blowing all those games. Someone said earlier that it seems like the Cubs lead the league in games where multiple relievers are down because they've pitched too much and there's part of the reason why.
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Doesn't sound like a guy thats ready to give up on Adbert anytime soon
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Counting is difficult when you are trying to satisfy your bloodlust for futility stats.
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I'm doing a special one for today 9/1/23 - Cubs lead the Reds 2-1 in the bottom of the 9th, lose 3-2 9/2/23 - Cubs lead the Reds 1-0 in the bottom of the 9th, lose 2-1 9/16/23 - Cubs lead the Diamondbacks 4-3 in the bottom of the 10th, 5-4 bottom 11th, and 6-5 bottom 13th, lose 7-6 in 13 innings 9/26/23 - Cubs lead the Braves 6-5 in the bottom of the 8th, lose 7-6 9/27/23 - Cubs lead the Braves 3-2 in the bottom of the 8th, 4-3 bottom 9, 5-4 bottom 10, lose 6-4 in 10 innings 3/28/24 - Cubs lead the Rangers 3-2 in the bottom of the 9th, lose 4-3 in 10 innings 4/8/24 - Cubs lead the Padres 8-7 in the bottom of the 8th, lose 9-8 4/16/24 - Cubs lead the Diamondbacks 11-10 in the bottom of the 9th, lose 12-11 in 10 innings 4/20/24 - Cubs lead the Marlins 2-1 in the top of the 9th, lose 3-2 5/2/24 - Cubs lead the Mets 6-5 in the bottom of the 11th, lose 7-6 5/3/24 - Cubs lead the Brewers 1-0 in the top of the 8th, lose 3-1 The Cubs have had the lead in the 8th inning or later in 41 of their last 61 games. However they are just 30-31 in those 61 games.
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Yeah its interesting. Counsell has a reputation for being great at managing pitching staffs and I'm assuming part of that is knowing how to keep his starters rested throughout the season so they're still strong in September. He's clearly applying those tactics here but instead of Hader and Williams and others he has Neris and Leiter and AAA pitchers. It's clearly not working given the number of blown leads we've had so far this year. Does he adjust his tactics and start letting the starters pitch deeper? Because right now there is absolutely no one in the Cubs pen that is particularly trustworthy. Leiter is the closest but in a good pen he's a solid 7th inning guy and is not without his flaws.
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We're in the middle of a stretch of 26 games in 27 days so I'm sure that's part of it. MLB schedule makers did us no favors to start this year. We seem to have a cluster of off days towards the end of May and first half of June. (Of course I swear we lead the MLB in the number of "our team is currently in a death match stretch" stretches over the last 5 years or so)
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The answer is to have better bullpen pitchers. It just sucks that we had no way to know going into this season that the pen could be a rough spot for us.
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They've played such stupid baseball this year. I don't know who to blame so I'll just blame Counsell.
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Not sure. I know when the Cubs lost 5 games in September last year it tied an MLB record for most in a month. This would be our 6th this year so I'm sure its probably several more but we're well on track to pass it at this point.
