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Jason Ross
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Good win. Offense looked really good; they beat up on Lopez the way you'd hope. Assad a little iffy in the pen, but whatever. David Peterson, very good. Since coming to Chicago Peterson has been shockingly good: 4.15 ERA, 4.27 FIP, 3.99 xFIP. 20.6 K%, 10.6% BB%, You'd hope for a bit better walk and strikeout rate, but a 50% groundball rate will help erase the walks. As an aside, I think he's shown enough worth to consider a multi-year contract (Two years and like a third option with a buyout on his end?) as a good 4/5 option for a rotation that could probably use that.
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He's not the dominant pitcher he was five years ago, but he's 99th percentile chase, 81st percentile whiff, 70th percentile xERA. You aren't going to score a lot off of him, and it's not really a winning proposition.
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Should be an interesting matchup as both teams are similar to each other. The Braves pitch better than the Cubs and the Cubs hit better than the Braves, but both are definitely slanted towards being offensive teams who have to out-hit. their pitching. Obviously the Braves have Sale, but beyond him, Lopez and Perez should be very "gettable". Bullpen wise, they can close games out well (Lee, Fuentes and Iglesias) but they are pretty mortal if you can take a lead and miss that trio. I'm not a "must win" a series kind of guy, but this feels like the kind of series you want to see the Cubs take two out of from an aesthetic standpoint.
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YEAH! ZEFERJAHN.,
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Josiah Hartshorn & Ángel Cepeda to AA
Jason Ross replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I would say very little. AFL isn't really where the best pitching is and Hartshorn has played more baseball this year more than he likely ever has. Let him play a couple of playoff games in Knoxville, tip your cap "good season, kid" and let him rest and get ready for next year. -
This doesn't come from an angry position but can I ask *why* you hate that stat? Do you hate it because there is a legitimate flaw? Or because it doesn't jive with your vibes? I ask that not to be a jerk or some righteous ass, but just because I think most of the time when we see a statistic and hate it, it's just because it doesn't match our world view (i.e. the sky is falling because of the bullpen) versus it being a bad statistic.
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"If 'ifs and buts' were candy and nuts..." Your entire post history has mostly come down to "what is actually happening/happened" versus "what is maybe happening in the future". The Cubs should trade PCA because of (insert some random Chicken Little sky-is-falling thing in the future)" I'd rather be the Brewers because (insert prediction of the future). It's very easy to make hot-take predictions about things in the future, friend. When cornered on an opinion, this is what you run to. But when happens if the Brewers don't win a World Series this year? Are we just going to pivot to them winning it...next year?
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Wiggins isn't ready. Velo isn't right and despite the better run of games in which he hasn't been scored on, he hasn't looked particularly good. From a pure "eye-test" standpoint, Shelby Miller looks closer to really helping and he has been bombed on a few of his goes. But the stuff looks sharp, I think it's more of a "shaking off a years' worth of rust" with him and could click any time. Wiggins just doesn't look entirely right and I wouldn't mess with that in September.
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Hard to tell. The hope is "yes" but we're probably in the baby-steps of that process. Tyler Zombro is on year-two in the organization, but really his first real year of having authority outside of "a guy in the room". He was heavily invested in the draft this year where the Cubs took 15 arms. Pitchers, however, rarely get run their draft year (to lessen the load) so we haven't seen most of these guys. We have seen a few of them pop up and they look promising! That's well before winter workouts, labs, etc. really work on their changes. Cade Townsend is self-reporting throwing two mph faster with lowered arm slot, too. But we also probably won't see the fruits of this for a few years. A few drafts. Most of these players will not develop and it's the nature of the beast. But I can say that it felt like a different type of draft with who they went after and I'd imagine that is heavily due to Zombro. For the orgs sake, they really should hope this is the guy. I can tell you the Cubs weren't the only organization interested in giving him a lot of runway, and is why he was promoted so quickly.
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Sports can do that to you. They can make a good day great, and a bad day terrible. But I enjoy being invested for the sense of community. Just my two cents but the baseball community, here, PSD, and elsewhere that I have been able to cultivate and be apart of has been really fun. And if sometimes I have to get annoyed because some human I've never met let another human I've never met hit the ball very, very far...feels like a small price to pay. That said I have learned never to get overly upset any more. Young me was more emotionally invested on every pitch. Generally speaking it happens very few and far between now. All things in moderation.
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The thought of 2am Denny's now a days gives me heartburn no Tums could control.
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I have cats. I only get to hug those idiots on their terms. (Those terms are always at 2am, when I am dead asleep and they think it's breakfast time. It is, in fact, not breakfast time at 2am. Ever.)
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Ya'll know me real well. I rarely get frustrated, if ever, at baseball. I enjoy to get excited, and stow away the anger and the negative feelings. It's just so rarely worth them. But tonight? Tonight I am frustrated.
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That is straight up an amazing PA by Kelly.
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1-1 fastball over the plate. Hard to blame a hitter there. Nico was going to get another chance.
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Babip, that.
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I like it better when the other team watches clear strikes for strike three.
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The Brewers pitch Aaron Ashby every game, we have Civale who pitches every inning.
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Ashby is a goober. Get him Pete.
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You don't have to have an entire bullpen of guys who have to pitch every night, but the Cubs pen is in a weird place where you can only hop so many landmines at once. And I say this as someone who's been pro-Miller. 1. He got bombed on his second go of a back-to-back and he barely pitched the first game (one hitter). 2. If you need to pussyfoot around Miller's usage, it helps if you have a bullpen you trust. It's pretty hard to avoid Miller on back to backs, while also avoid Caleb Thielbar or Trent Thonrton outside of curated spots, while also having three longmen who aren't really leverage arms, while also figuring out when to throw Zef and Palencia... It's a quagmire and right now, it's probably best to give Miller a few more days while you hope a few of these guys right the ship before you bring up Steele and Miller who will add in a lot of other usage questions.
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I can live with 40 pitches through two innings.
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Effectively 0-0. If Peterson can match Miz, that's a pretty good outcome.
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Ugh. Two well hit balls, but two balls that just found a way down, too.
