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  1. UMFan83
    The Cubs have gotten the leadoff hitter on in 4 straight innings and in 5 of the 8 innings overall but have gotten a total of 1 run. Frustrating. edit: new life, still have a shot
  2. UMFan83
    Amaya started out hitting well but seems to be struggling as he’s gotten more consistent ABs. 0 for his last 15
  3. UMFan83
    But seriously I know we focus on the Cubs offensive struggles but the Mets seem like they have some really good pitching. Figured after trading Verlander and Scherzer and deGrom leaving they have like 6 starters all with really nice numbers and that doesn’t even include Senga. What devil magic are they using?
  4. UMFan83
    Maybe we’ll be thankful in September when they aren’t all gassed. I don’t know if that’s his intention or it’s the 3rd time through the order thing but for Imanaga in particular he’s never had more than 170 IP in a season.
  5. UMFan83
    Imanaga is the greatest pitcher in baseball history
  6. UMFan83
    Busch now 4 for his last 33 with 14 Ks and 1 XBH. Need him to adjust to the adjustments sometime soon
  7. UMFan83
    Mervis and PCA carrying the Cubs offense
  8. UMFan83
    Probably because he’s never hit and has looked particularly awful attempting to. Not enough of a sample size to call his career dead but it is not trending very well at all
  9. UMFan83
    This is when baseball drives me nuts. They’re gonna get hot again offensively. It could be today, it could be a month from now. But because it could be today, every day you hope and expect to be the day when they get their horsefeathers together
  10. UMFan83
    Remember that one week when Busch was good? edit: wrong game thread
  11. UMFan83
    Yeah the lower ratings almost seem like a hedge for a few reasons: -New OC, though we have an idea how the offense is going to run -Rookie QB, even a highly touted one, he could start out slow, he could be CJ Stroud -3 higher volume receivers on the roster, not sure how that's going to break down in terms of targets -Waldron likes to use TEs but how will the breakdown be between Kmet and Everett as he is another prominent pass catching TE -Swift is clear RB1 but the Bears typically like to work in all 3 RBs, and there is uncertainty on how much he'll be used in the pass game with the aforementioned pass catchers. Just a lot of (good) uncertainty which makes it hard to project fantasy studs
  12. UMFan83
    The problem with Bote is that he isn't on the 40 man roster. We can probably clear a spot for him but is it worth doing that when Bote isn't exactly even tearing the cover off the ball in Iowa?
  13. UMFan83
    Without Tauchman we're down to 14-110 (.127). Yikes
  14. UMFan83
    I was trying to think about why I have such a negative perception of Dansby or why it feels disappointing to watch him. Last August 6th, his batting line was .264/.347/.456/.804. He was consistently getting big hits, hitting HRs, having good ABs, playing great defense. We all loved him. However, for the last 49 games of 2023, his batting line was .204/.287/.333/.620 during a stretch where the Cubs blew a great chance of making the playoffs. It wasn't all bad, there were a few big hits in there and ok stretches of games and his defense was still stellar, but overall it was a long frustrating slump. Now in the first 30 games of this season, his OPS is .667. Putting those performances back to back, its roughly 1/2 a season worth of games with ~.650ish OPS. I'm not posting this to say Dansby sucks. He's always been an extremely streaky hitter and assuming his skills didn't randomly plummet one day in August last year, he will get hot again and will seem a lot more valuable. Heck despite a rough start with the bat, he's still been worth 0.7 fWAR, which is 3rd on the team behind Tauchman and Imanaga. But because he's been pretty bad with the bat for so long, it really does feel like he's terrible and frustrating to watch.
  15. UMFan83
    How the hell is Mervis this bad? He is the AAAAest player ever
  16. UMFan83
    The Cubs are 18-120 (.150) over their last 4 games. Rough stretch for the offense.
  17. UMFan83
    Adbert has given up a HR to 9.3% of the batters he's faced this year. The saddest thing about that is that it seems lower than I thought.
  18. UMFan83
    I dont know what you do with Adbert at this point. Seemed like he was right on track for rebuilding his confidence in lower leverage situations. This is probably the highest leverage inning he’s pitched in since the demotion and he botched it.
  19. UMFan83
    Thanks Dansby! Not gonna help Adbert’s confidence
  20. UMFan83
    Ok that was very ****** Dansby. Come the horsefeathers on dude. does he have the yips or something?
  21. UMFan83
    Alzolay against one of the best HR hitters in baseball. Either a confidence booster or completely demoralizing. edit: confidence booster!
  22. UMFan83
    Dammit Tauchman. Bad time to strike out with a runner on 3rd
  23. UMFan83
    He's 2 OAA so far this year which is tied for 9th among SS. Last year he was 1st with 20 OAA, a full 4 more than the 2nd best SS. Yeah its seemingly slipped but its also just 1 month in the season. TBH, I'm not a very big Swanson fan at all but give it a couple more months...he's a really streaky bat, maybe he's a streaky glove too lol Edit: Also I should mention his bWAR this year is 0.6, which is 2nd among the big 4 SS of 2023 behind Turner. Correa is at 0.2 and Bogaerts is at -0.2.
  24. UMFan83
    Wait the Mets scored a run how?
  25. UMFan83
    Just for fun, record at the end of April for recent Cubs teams 2024: 19-11 or 18-12 2023: 14-13 2022: 8-13 2021: 11-15 2020: COVID 2019: 15-12 2018: 16-10 2017: 13-11 2016: 17-5 2015: 12-8 So if they win tonight it will their 2nd best record at the end of April over the last 10 years (by winning %). If they lose, they'll be tied for 3rd best (2016 and 2018 being better, tied with 2015).
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