UMFan83
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I agree there are issues with calling up Wicks out of the blue. No one was projecting him to start this season, hes not on the 40 man, he's only been at AAA for a spell. It's just an option. I would have gone with Wesneski personally. -
You are comparing 10 ERA bad vs. Wesneski bad. Smyly couldnt get through 4 innings in like 6 of his last 9 starts and generally looked awful. It was a poor choice, but even if you want to say ''hes a veteran and he'll figure it out", Ross gave him an extreme amount of rope tonight. And you can't retroactively declare Wicks not prepared to start when they've known they needed a starter tonight for almost a week.
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Smyly thought the best move was to walk off the mound after the 2nd out hoping everyone else in the park forgot that it was only the 2nd out
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The Tigers have scored the 2nd least runs in baseball. Imagine this start if they were playing a good offensive team
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Yes there’s lots of reasons to poke holes at other options. But kind of loses steam when you are arguing for starting a pitcher with an ERA near 10 the last 2.5 months.
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And it’s tied
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Definitely want to walk the first guy after your offense scores 4 runs to take the lead
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Or let’s win
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Let’s get no hit tonight. Seemed to help the last Cubs team to get no hit in the long run.
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And yet he's also going to get a lot of praise (and rightfully so) for his offseason moves or really moves over the last 2 seasons to put the Cubs in this position.
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And the 3 starts before that he gave up 13 ER in 16 IP lol
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6 days ago this dude gave up 9 baserunners and 4 runs in 2.2 IP. Today so far 1 baserunner and 0 runs in 2 IP. maybe he’s well rested from being pulled early last time out
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…sure but there were other options out there. Perhaps guys like Wesneski or Wicks are not ideal to throw into a playoff race but either is a guy with an ERA over 10 the last 3 months
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Way to be bold and stick with the pitcher with an ERA over 10.00 for the last 3 months Rossy
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Assuming he pitches more than 1 inning, this will be the 7th multi-inning appearance in a row that Smyly gives up a HR in his first inning of work. Cubs down 1-0
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Sunday's starter Jordan Lyles had a 7.22 ERA in his previous 5 starts, allowing opponents to have a .987 OPS against him in those starts. It looks like they must have made a scoring change because they were originally saying he allowed 2 ER in 8 innings but now its 4 ER. But either way, he allowed 6 base runners in 8 innings. Last nights starter Alex Faedo had a 6.08 ERA in his previous 5 starts and held the Cubs to 2 ER and 5 total base runners in 6 innings. Unlike Lyles though who was getting hit hard in all 5 of those starts, Faedo's starts were alternated between solid and terrible.
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That's an all-timer wow
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Yeah I agree. Even if the White Sox had 25% of the Chicago market they'd still have more available fans here than they would in the entire Nashville metro area. In reality, the number is probably closer to 40-45%.
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Whoopsie
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And Pham walks it off for the Diamondbacks Who score 3 to win 4-3. Cubs remain 1 game ahead of the playoff cut line instead of 1.5 games
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Dammit the rangers picked a really annoying time to have their biggest slump of the season edit: not so fast, rangers up 3-1 in 11th
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Rangers were 2 outs from victory over the Diamondbacks but Chapman gave up a dong to tie it
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Rangers now up 1-0 in the 7th
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Yes I know I'm a famous overreactor but this doesnt bother me that much. We're sort of slumping/playing bad but still managing to take advantage of a weak schedule. It would piss me the hell off if we were losing these games but we're not. We know this team can play better. The pitching worries me a little but we're not supposed to be the Braves this year either.
