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So excited to see Balogun tonight against Mexico. Gonna have to figure out a way to do yet another free trial of Paramount+ 🙂
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Also since I'm on the statcast page, Seiya today: 105 mph single 98 mph fly out 104 mph ground out Walk 104 mph double -
To be fair, the sac fly was hit 99 mph and traveled 375 feet but yeah I didn't think he was terrible tonight.
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Feels like Mervis needs to come off the bag there
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lol the Cubs could be 4.5 gb after tonight with a chance to go 3.5 back tomorrow. unfortunately we still have to survive the pen to win tonight
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And the Cubs lead. Nice hitting with RISP
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Smyly looks like he has nothing tonight
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Reverse jinx worked!
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Why did we bunt there? and then Mastro gets hit by a grounder costing the Cubs a run. Unreal
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Umm well congrats Vegas I guess
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1…2…3…4….5 lefties in the lineup, we can safely tune out
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Since I'm a dork, I went and looked this up. Games with 5 L/S starting: 4/1 - 1 run 4/3 - 1 run 4/7 - 2 runs 4/9 - 2 runs 4/12 - 2 runs 4/19 - 12 runs 5/2 - 1 run 5/13 - 1 run 5/16 - 3 runs 5/21 - 1 run 5/24 - 4 runs 5/26 - 0 runs 5/31 - 3 runs Games with 6 L/S starting: 5/29 - 1 run 6/3 - 0 runs So 15 times they've started at least 5 lefties or switch hitters (mostly Happ) in the lineup. They have scored 2 runs or less in 11 of those 15 games and scored more than 4 runs 1 time. Even with the crazy outlier 12 run game, they are averaging 2.3 runs per game when they trot out a lineup with 5+ lefties. Remove the 12 run outlier and its 1.6 runs per game. Oh and they are 4-11 in those games.
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Howso for the Diamondbacks? Not sure what they've done to be competitive but their payroll is only at $83m so I'm curious what they are doing that the Cubs should emulate.
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Looks like the corresponding move is NOT Seiya to the DL, its Brandon Hughes
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There's really not a ton of truly bad teams this year it seems like compared to other years. And of the actual bad teams record-wise we have a lot of games left against them CWS - 4/4 remaining Detroit - 3/3 remaining KC - 3/3 remaining Oakland - 0/3 remaining Washington - 3/7 remaining St Louis - 10/13 remaining Colorado - 6/6 remaining That's every team more than 4 games under .500 right now, and of the 41 games against those teams on the schedule, we've only played 10 of them so far. Only 2 more of those games will be played between now and July 16th which is roughly the deadline for the Cubs picking a lane in terms of buying or selling. 29 of "easier games" will be played after that date (13 straight games against those teams begin on July 17). Like you pointed out, it doesn't mean the Cubs are magically good because their schedule has been tougher, but if 29 of their 41 easiest games came before any trade deadline decisions needed to be made instead of after, there's a chance we'd be in a better position to buy. *Also just a caveat that its still possible the Pirates are actually not that good and by the end of the season they may be grouped into the bad teams.
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Really love this new era of more organic championship teams and overall parity. After getting Warriors/Cavs for literally 4 years straight we’ve gotten 8 different teams over the last 5 Finals, only repeats have been the Warriors and Heat x2
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Season ERAs of the Cubs pitchers today: Wesneski - 5.33 Fulmer - 5.93 Hughes - 7.24 Rucker - 5.04 Estrada - 6.75 Assad - 6.00 Guess I shouldn't be surprised that we've given up 13 runs
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This pen horsefeathering sucks
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Happy the Cubs scored 2 to tie it but would have been nice if they were on solid hits rather than an error and a fielders choice. Otherwise they are 0-7 with RISP so far
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Yeah it seemed like Happ gave up on it a bit too soon but whatever. The no hitter would have been over much earlier without that great Tauchman catch.
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damn
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Through 7 and only at 81 pitches...
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Seriously wtf, he's terrible.
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So umm Kyle is pitching well
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Attaboy Morel
