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Who are you replacing him with? At least with Triple A starter you might get Jon Koronka like lightning in a bottle before teams start to get a book on him. The worse case scenario is Underwood or someone constantly gets into trouble and gives up a lot of runs which...is pretty much what Chatwood does

Who are you replacing him with? Literally anyo-OH MY GOD, IT'S YOU. This is the funniest damn bit ever; you horsefeathering hate everything about the Cubs except the things that everyone else is fed up with. I couldn’t find a good way to sum that up in the past. You my friend nailed it

8.50 ERA over his last 4 starts

Chatwood signing was always a risk but this is almost a worst case scenario

Bulls already matched....

I wanted to bring him back. I’m not sold on him but I think he is better than he played so close to his ACL surgery. $20m a year is too much for me though

Man we crushed the horsefeathers out of Iglasias. Oh well.

Come on Zo....no DPs please

I hope its not the start of another one of our fun little funks.

seems like whenever we get a runner on today we start peppering ground balls at their IFs

Montgomery, even when he's like this, is still pitching around what I would have expected/hoped if the Cubs ended up needing him to replace someone, or if they went with a 6-man rotation. The problem is that the rest of the rotation is broken, absurdly lucky, terrible, and a couple of guys who are shooting to be average at best. If Yu can come back and finally remember who is and Lester somehow keeps it up, that's not so bad, but I still have to think that they need to go out and get another starter. Yeah, that sucks given how much is already tied up in who they have, but the rotation right now is set up to shoot the dick off of any real playoff chances outside of, "well, hey, ANYONE can happen to get hot just in time for the postseason!" Hendricks and Quintana ideally can and will turn it around, but they're really not showing any indications of doing so. Again, Q had been mostly quite good since May. I don’t get what you are seeing in him “not showing indications of being good.” In 12 starts since May 1: 1 start longer than 6 innings 3.60 ERA .759 OPS against .280 BABIP which is above league average by a bit 26% LD% which is really high I'm not sure what his WAR is in those 12 starts, but for the year he's been worth just 0.5 wins which is 68th among the 77 starters to throw at least 90 innings this year. I mean yeah 3.60 ERA for a 4th starter is fine but just on quick glance it looks like he's getting lucky and he can't pitch deep into games. He hasn't missed a start all season and yet he hasn't thrown enough innings to qualify for the ERA title. We really need someone to occasionally throw more than 6 innings because the bullpen is always throwing out Bass or Farrell or some other made up reliever because the 4 good ones are either used too much or are injured. edit: Also please feel free to find stats that dispute my assertion, I just picked a couple that jumped out at me and didn't do a deep dive.

Just going off watching Reds/Cubs games, I assume Hamilton will be leading off for the NL All Stars later this month?

Well his has become Euro '18

Heyward it roping it right to guys today.

I came into the season thinking I'd feel reasonably confident every game with our staff. Now I find myself bracing for the Monty-Chatwood portion of the rotation (at least since Monty turned back into a pumpkin) Also it shows how high my expectations are that complain in a game where the opponent scored 3 runs in 5 innings. Not a great start at all but he hasn't gotten shelled either.

We should get 5 starters at the deadline, maybe 2 of them will work out

Gah, try to get out of this giving up 2 runs or less please

Nice work Cardinals FO!

ASG voting ends at midnight tonight. According to MLB.com, Willson has passed Posey for starting NL Catcher. I know some people want the Cubs to rest, but please vote in Willy, he needs to get in just to piss off Molina. Willson's lead is about 12k votes. Javy has also gone from about 300k back on Monday to slightly more than 100k back today. Also this dude has been projecting AS teams weekly for awhile. Somehow he managed to REMOVE Javy from the game over the past week

This is what he does. He keeps guys rested in July to the detriment of the team that day so that they are strong in Sept-Oct. since our starters only go 5-6 innings the pen has been used a lot

Keeping that ratio high today! Because Willy got the knee down and the runner never touched home plate. It's a 1 run game what do you have to lose? Ask John Fox what he has to lose challenging a potential TD in a 1 score game. I know football replay has nothing to do with baseball, I just wanted t bring that up because I still can’t believe that happened.

There goes the Bass walkless streak

Down 2 pen guys (CJE, Monty) plus starters rarely pitch into the 7th so there’s always seemingly 1 of the top 3 guys unavailable many games. Plus Bass has pitched well

Tigers with a Rizzo there

Why would Rizzo be used there against Liriano? Seems like an odd time to use him in the 6th inning against a lefty