UMFan83

damn

Through 7 and only at 81 pitches...

Seriously wtf, he's terrible.

So umm Kyle is pitching well

Attaboy Morel

Vintage Hendricks so far

Damn, I kind of liked 2-3-2

Yeah even if they win Game 5, I just cant see them going back to the Denver altitude and winning games 6 and 7. But they've been defying expectations all playoffs so we'll see.

Just tried out that rumor thing on the site. Didn't realize it would create a new topic, but here we are. Stroman randomly responded to a tweet from a Cub fan about his desire to get extended and the Cubs not being interested at this time:

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Technically the Cubs are 8-6 on the west coast this year. It’s the only place we’ve actually done decent. 😂. Though I suppose those A’s games hardly count.

It's just crazy to me....they're my favorite team, I'm not doing anything particularly entertaining right now and I just have no desire to put the game on. I somehow have more desire to come on this forum to talk about how much I don't want to watch them than I do to actually hit 202 on my tv remote.

I applaud everyone who still watches this team.

Possible candidates imo: Leiter, Jr - Cubs could easily keep him too but having a career year and 32 years old...might be better to sell high even if his improvement is sustainable Hendricks - Final year of deal but team option if he pitches well. All depends on how well he pitches. If he pitches well he becomes a somewhat attractive piece. Otherwise, Cubs will probably just keep him and run out the clock. Merryweather - Similar to Leiter....he'll be 32 in October and having a solid enough season to potentially get something of use for him Smyly - Less likely because he has another year on his deal and to TT's point I don't think the Cubs are looking to take a huge step back, but if you get a crazy offer from a SP needy team and it includes MLB or near MLB players, you at least consider it. Stroman - everyones talked about this enough Gomes - highly regarded pitch framer having a solid hitting season is bound to have some value for a team needing catching help, though the same questions that Contreras had about adding a catcher mid-season is a factor, plus the Cubs probably plan to have him in a similar role next year. Mancini - talked about enough, your standard extra low cost bat for a contender. Was in the same role last year with Houston Mastrobuoni/Tauchman/Madrigal - I guess? Don't really have any strong ties to them and if a team is looking for a bat, cya. Madrigal is probably better keeping and giving regular PT to see if you can get anything from him long term but he's very limited by having an everyday starter at 2B and SS. Bellinger - covered by TT and I agree with his take Yeah, after typing all this up, there's definitely not a ton there. I think you shop most of those guys, if you get a strong offer you take it. You definitely shop Stroman to see if a SP needy team will throw something crazy at you. Would be stupid to not at least shop him.

Yes I'm using an arbitrary start date, but the Cubs offense since April 22nd (42 games): Runs scored - 150 (Last) BB% - 10.4% (2nd) K% - 26.5% (28th) ISO - .140 (27th) AVG - .224 (29th) OBP - .310 (19th) SLG - .364 (29th) wOBA - .299 (25th) wRC+ - 86 (25th) - If you move the start date to May 2nd its 82 and dead last.

15-30 in their last 45 after they lose this one. That’s playing at a 54 win pace for almost 30% of the season

This topic is what really depresses me about this season. I don't feel like we're all that much closer to contending than we were at this time last year. We've added some talent but at the expense of a decent chunk of our payroll flexibility (assuming there's a cap to how the payroll we can operate at). There are promising prospects but none that look like superstar middle of the order bats. With Jed's conservative approach to building a team, there's not a great avenue to get a batter like that via FA either. What continues to frustrate me is not using our significant resource advantage to dominate this division. Being a big market doesn't automatically make you the best team every year but the metro population of Chicago dwarfs the other 4 cities in our division. Metro population of Chicago - 9.4 million Metro population of Cincinnati, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee COMBINED - 8.6 million Even if you consider the White Sox and split Chicago's population in half, the remainder is still more than double any other city in the division except St. Louis (4.7m for Chicago vs. 2.8m for St. Louis). Yet the Cubs have won roughly 21% of the NL Central titles since the division was created and have finished in 5th or 6th almost twice as many times (11 times) as they've finished in 1st (6 times). Again, having a financial advantage isn't going to guarantee you win every year, but when you have such a giant financial advantage, winning on average 1 out of every 5 years is really poor.

Another DE off the board. Haven't really heard much about Frank Clark/Bears so whatever, but Bears fans are freaking out on twitter of course lol

Haven’t really thought of the Bears as a possible destination for Cook and I think we’re set with our RBs but it looks like multiple betting sites have the Bears as the favorites to sign him if released. Not sure I’m buying it but who knows.

I’m beginning to think that the Cubs bullpen isn’t that good

and now its 6-4 Angels. Thanks Mervis

and we're tied.

And then a wild pitch scores a run, falling apart

Oh boy Mervis that was bad. Potential double play grounder botched by Mervis and gets no outs. Instead of inning over its bases loaded, 0 outs and the top of the Angels order. Edit: upon reply, DP would have been tough but still, come on dude you need to get an out there.