Agony and Ivy
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We’ll only win 93 games if they remain 4+ era pitchers well they're both at 5+ right now and if they both have a 4+ era from this point forward, they have no chance at 93 wins They're on pace for 92 wins. You're right 94 would be out of the question lol. -
The Cubs should have less pitchers that throw BP fastballs down the dick. If you want to make that into an actual argument, I think you can tie it to the Cubs’ emphasis on durability. It’s no accident they’ve had such good fortune with pitcher health, and part of that is that they haven’t emphasized SP who throw 100 mph crazyballs. The downside of that approach is that even though those pitchers(Lester, Hendricks, Quintana) are good in the aggregate, they’re going to be more prone to bad luck if the environment is different. They did change their approach a bit this past offseason with Darvish and Chatwood though, Chatwood is particularly successful at the ‘can’t hit a home run if I never throw a strike’ philosophy. In an era where the balls are juiced you can't have the horsefeathers it we're not giving in approach because then you walk 2 guys before you give up the juiced ball homer. Quintana has been trash, but now I'm wondering if he's not hurt. Edit: Q isn't even giving up more homers than he usually does but his 11% BB rate and 20% K rate is not the stuff of a Major League starting pitcher.
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The Braves and their fake good players can all go away now.
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You're just saying that since capitalizing on cheap dongs is the one thing the Cubs inexplicably can't get in on. They hit their fair share(looking at you Happ), although there is a selfish and possibly illogical part of me that thinks a deader ball benefits the Cubs since their power hitters are generally hitting the bejeezus out of their home runs. Mostly this is taking a frustrating game to make the point that it really dampens the aesthetics to have random fly balls carry out all the time. I mean, you just had one of the most demonstrative players around completely unsure what was happening and the ball was 5 rows up on a day that isn’t terribly windy. Deaden the ball, and lower the mound as a counter-measure if you have to, give me offense that is actually earned instead of winning a game of fly ball dice. The Cubs should have less pitchers that throw BP fastballs down the dick.
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If MLB is pretending the ball is the same, it’s not getting fixed. Wait until they make every stadium use the humidor and every game is 3-2. Exciting times ahead. Getting shutout from here on out is going to be a blast.
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Jesus horsefeathering Christ hopefully he catches whatever Yu got.
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Get this bum out.
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Rizzo doing more really good things out there.
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Thank god we have that borderline superstar to lift up our shitty starting pitcher.
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Yep Quintana can horsefeathers right the horsefeathers off.
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ALBERT!
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Teheran owning the Cubs souls is so weird because he's a very average pitcher despite what certain posters here think.
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[expletive] this looks like a bad little league team.
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More great defense by Rizzo. What an oaf.
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Q and the nibbling is awful. I hate watching him try to pitch.
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Who’s the horsefeathers stick calling balls and strikes
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I don’t think we’ve ever scored against Teheran so this was a fun day.
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Lol Wainwright had fantasy value is the best part of this rotowire update. It's an upgrade for them if he's out.
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The .pharmacy commercial is maybe the greatest 45 seconds in television history.
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He's only mostly dead.
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Well, you can't EXPECT Rizzo to get those every time, and you have to accept that Willy's throw isn't always going to be great if we are going to be happy the times he gets a guy leaning too far from second or first. In all honesty, Hendricks' 0-2 pitch was way too good. So he can share a small part of the blame, too. Rizzo should have had that ball. I can expect Willson not to miss first base by 80 feet, because, you know, he's a major league catcher. Edit: And with two outs it was unneccessary and awfully stupid.
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Hendricks should punch Rizzo and Contreras right in the [expletive] face.
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What in the actual horsefeathers are these idiots doing on defense?
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Matt Davidson is terrible so of course he turns a strikeout looking and a Rizzo defensive gem into a homer
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-12-18
Agony and Ivy replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Adbert may start one of the games in the DH with Cincinnati?
