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  1. UMFan83
    Steve Trachsel is by far the pitching name I remember most (pre Kerry Wood) from my childhood, and the best year of his career, fWAR wise, he put up a 5.66 ERA. I remember Trachsel most for taking forever between pitches. It became a running joke and broadcasts sometimes clocked him. Hilarious stuff I remember him most for having a very Chatwoodian 6.1 IP, 1 H, 6 BB performance in the Wild Card tiebreaker game in 98
  2. UMFan83
    haha the Cubs got the Cardinals to lose 2 home games instead of 1 and 1
  3. UMFan83
    [tweet]https://twitter.com/Cubs_Live/status/1134148979996942338[/tweet] Cubs sign Cargo to a minor league deal.
  4. UMFan83
    well probably just insane FB/HR luck. He has more HRs than singles, doubles and triples combined
  5. UMFan83
    Willy is slumping
  6. UMFan83
    You guys are way too impatient. In 2021 it will only be 31 years since the Cubs last game.
  7. UMFan83
    Baseball is secondary but since that happened the Cubs went from 1st and 2nd and 0 outs to Astros having runners on 1st and 3rd and 0 outs
  8. UMFan83
    I’m sorry if something like that happens you have to delay the game for a bit. That’s devastating to see happen much less be the person that hit that ball Really hope that kid is ok.
  9. UMFan83
    Almora get your ass up when the ball is still in play
  10. UMFan83
    Sweet we got a run so we’ll only be down 3-1 after this inning.
  11. UMFan83
    FWIW from Kaplan/Jesse Rogers: [tweet] [/tweet] Can't remember if I originally saw this on this forum or twitter so apologies if it was posted already.
  12. UMFan83
    Someone make me feel better. What is the last good move the FO has made? I know there is an obvious recent one I’m missing right?
  13. UMFan83
    I’m shocked that Descalso couldn’t come up with that throw and it immediately led to an Astros run. This team is just playing so great right now
  14. UMFan83
    The funny thing about Kimbrel is that he’s available, the Cubs have an unbelievably glaring need for relievers, and the Cubs are a large market team that spent almost nothing to upgrade their team last winter and they fancy themselves as a contender. Yet I really don’t expect the Cubs to be a strong contender for him.
  15. UMFan83
    I’m shocked that the guy that always allows inherited runners to score allowed an inherited runner to score
  16. UMFan83
    Sounds like we are about to get this storm in the western burbs
  17. UMFan83
    Javy has 17 Ks in his last 7 games. Yikes
  18. UMFan83
    The Cubs don’t suck but the pitching is a legit big concern to me. Cubs have no power arms in their rotation and are relying on 3 guys with either major injury concerns or are in their mid-30s. Their bullpen has a bunch of AAA arms and a couple of guys who might be considered slightly below average closers. And again no power arms. They have and will pitch better than they have the last 10 days but I’m willing to bet the true skill level is a little closer to this than the dominant period (but then again I can be pessimistic). And if it is, it’s not just 1-2 little fixes that need to be made
  19. UMFan83
    18 ER in Lester’s last 12.1 innings
  20. UMFan83
    HR HR Descalso groundout HR Sounds about right
  21. UMFan83
    Sounds like it’s working so far
  22. UMFan83
    Man I wish we had just 1 starter who I could get excited about starting. Don't get me wrong, I don't dread any of our starters pitching except maybe Darvish and all of them are capable of having good even great starts, but we don't have that ace who you feel confident is going to give you a great start most nights. This year every day I see the starter and think 'ok cool'
  23. UMFan83
    We're not using whatever sorcery the Astros are using that triples all their pitchers' spin rates, so we probably would've just gotten broke Verlander anyway It annoys me to read about teams finding these competitive edges (if that’s really what’s happening here). Another example is the Brewers psychic positioning coach. I really didn’t think with our FO I’d ever feel like we were behind on these things. Of course I really don’t know anything about what’s really going on behind the scenes and I could be completely wrong, just how it feels sometimes
  24. UMFan83
    Man Javy has been bad those situations lately. Oh well, we showed some life
  25. UMFan83
    Seriously, it feels like our BABIP against is like .450 the last 2 weeks One of the beat guys tweeted out that the Reds BABIP last weekend was like .430 Just found it...close:
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