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Watch us lose 1-0 with the only run scoring off the opener. -
I guess PCA is only going to be useful for his defense in this series. Seems to press very easily. Start of his career in 2023, start of 2024, start of 2025, long slump this year, now the start of his first playoff series. He was starting to look better at the end of the year, now he's up there guessing again and being over eager.
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Yeah but the Padres will have a quick trigger today so if he struggles hopefully its HR balls or at least a couple of quick XBH
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11 pitches, not bad
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He was the number 1 overall pick in the draft too. I was living in Maryland at the time and remember there being a lot of hype for him even though I was like 8 years old
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Oh I see we have another ump favoring the Padres today.
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He has been awful but from what I've seen his peripherals haven't changed that much. Also Wrigley basically plays like Petco these days.
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xBA on Cubs batted balls that inning: .470 .640 .370
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Plus I'm assuming you want to save Soroka for potential multiple innings later in the game.
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Happ has no chance vs Cease. Not sure why he's batting 3rd
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Repeat of yesterday. Busch with a long fly out, Nico with a single
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Stupid camera angle...for a half second I was tricked into thinking it might have a chance.
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Yeah thats what I was just saying. Ultimately, Craig is smarter at baseball than us and has access to more data that goes way beyond "those guys faced him yesterday, bad idea" so I'll trust it was the right call.
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I'm fine with the opener. A little concerned that he chose a guy who Tatis and Arraez both got to see 22 hours ago.
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xBA on batted balls that inning: .900 .600 220 (sac fly) .670
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Padres bats definitely look livelier today. Even foul offs are being hit well
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Those wouldn't have been singles if it was Shota
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BIG first out
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It's interesting to see the Cubs standing in the national hierarchy after winning the title. I feel like we almost always had prime time prior to winning the title. We're probably still highly regarded but a level down from the Yankees, Dodgers, Mets, Red Sox.
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It's a work trip dammit. I mean there are worse places to go on a work trip but if the Cubs advance there are gonna be some rough nights unless they are all day games.
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Also there's this. I'm on a flight to Europe that leaves at 4:30 on Saturday, so kind of hoping the Yankees pull it out...
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That's a lot of scenarios. To boil it down here are the scenarios where a Game 3 starts after 4pm CT: 1. Red Sox over Yankees, everything else goes to Game 3 2. Dodgers over Reds, everything else goes to Game 3 3. Red Sox ver Yankees, Dodgers over Reds, Guardians over Tigers 4. All other series end except Cubs/Padres
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Giving up an out to move a runner is almost always a net loss. You are cutting your chances to score before the inning even starts. The numbers do not lie. In 1998 there were around 1,700 sacrifice bunts across the league. By 2019 that number dropped under 800. Position players are bunting even less. Managers learned it rarely increases win expectancy. If bunting really worked, teams would still do it all the time. They do not. It only makes sense in very rare situations like a tie game in the ninth with a weak hitter up. Outside of that, modern baseball proves giving away outs is a mistake.
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To be fair, I think you lost because people thought it would be funny if the person who spent all this time putting together a 64 poster tournament would lose in the first round. We were a mean bunch back then. We still are now, but back then too
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You also created the tournament which made it even funnier. But I do think that was part of the reason why you lost. I think I lost to raw in the Sweet 16
