UMFan83

Just frustrating because we have a road series coming up against the Yankees full of terrible matchups. Meanwhile the Brewers are beating the Dodgers and get a home series against the Nationals this weekend

You may be right. Here is his batting line against power pitchers this year: .146 .188 .260 .449

Dodgers had 2nd and 3rd and 1 out and didn’t score. Brewers still lead ffs

“Thank God Dansby is up here” said no one ever

As good as Seiya has been he has some completely awful ABs. Guesses too much only righty in this stretch and he pisses away his AB

Was not expecting a pitching change but I guess it makes sense if they don’t like him 3rd time in the order with 3 of the next 4 hitters LHB

Brewers just took the lead over the Dodgers. If they win the Dodgers will be 1-6 against the Cardinals and Brewers edit: bad math i mean 1-4

Come on don’t let this horsefeathers shut us out

3-3 would be solid. I didn’t realize the Yankees have the number 1 OPS in baseball against LHP and the Cubs are on pace to have at least 2 lefties, possibly 3 if Wicks starts or plays the majority of 1 game.

This has little to do with your point but I'm always reminded that the Giants somehow have not had a 30 HR hitter since Barry Bonds in 2004.

This can't be true, he is disqualified because he took a bad route to a ball once and forgot the number of outs another time according to Cardinals and Brewers twitter,

Also 5th in wRC+ and wOBA.

I know it's still not "good" but Busch is now up to a .631 OPS vs. LHP this year and .664 for his career. For reference Justin Turner with worse defense and no future with the team has a .675 OPS vs. LHP

Player A: 0/4, hit 4 110mph rockets right to the RF Player B: 0/4, 4 strikeouts, walked up to the plate holding his bat upside down for the 4th AB What player do you feel better about coming out of the game? This is really simplifying the argument by exaggerating an example but the results were the same despite one player playing really well and the other one sucking. Now make the example less extreme, add a few more pieces of data and stretch it out over a much larger sample and you have Ian Happ. Will he suck all year? He might! But it’s much more likely he will start getting better results doing the exact same things he is doing now. (Also as others have pointed out Happ really isn’t “sucking”) But what if the results never get better? Then he may be an outlier and over a large sample it becomes clearly that for whatever reason this person always underperforms his expected numbers. Or overperform if we are talking about someone like Kyle Hendricks in his prime. Analytics always suggested he should be much worse and he wasn’t. Ian Happ has played enough baseball to know he’s not one of these outliers. Ive had these results vs analytics arguments several times and I find it hard to change the mind of the type of person who insists results are all that matter. That’s fine, I’m pretty sure you know what these numbers mean, you just don’t care enough to change your opinion. Just know that like others have said every other team is making decisions based on this type of analysis.

Yeah I’m not sure what they do the next time Taillon’s spot comes up. They do have the ability to skip his spot this turn in the rotation due to the off day but seems like Craig doesn’t like to do that (and rightfully so tbh with the Cubs in the position they are in and guys like Horton and Boyd going to get many more innings than they have had in recent years. )

Another trophy conceded to Mexico

If the Cubs don’t score here Fedde’s line is going to look strange for a fully stretched out starter who didn’t leave the game due to injury 1.1 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 4 BB

I mean good job keeping the pinch count elevated but crappy result. also if anything I might not have wanted his pitch count to be elevated any further getting him out of the game quicker

Fedde clearly doesn’t want to give Busch anything with the RISP King on deck but 2 bad strike calls has made it an AB

horsefeathers cardinals catching breaks

Hell yeah Boyd made the All Star team. Back to back seasons Jed signed a starter who immediately makes the All Star game

Wait Sunday Night Baseball starts at 5pm now? What an odd time for a game at Wrigley to start.

Would have been Turner (PH for Shaw in the 8th) but yeah almost the same thing.

Sucks knowing that even if Busch reaches Nico would be up and we have no legit power options off the bench

I know, I don't even need to update my "losses after leading in the 8th inning or later" statistic because there really hasnt been many (or any?) for a while.