This pitching staff has been a nightmare all year and part of me feels like they’ve done an amazing job getting this far. The other part of me says there has to be something the coach/trainers are doing wrong. It’s too much of a disaster to just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and say that’s baseball.
Just my opinion, but Civale should be starting tonight instead of Shota.
I don’t like this at all. He’s likely going to get shelled.
Maybe the Marlins pitcher will live up to his name.
I’m rooting for these guys regardless. It’s such a fun offense to watch. I’m glued to the TV because of the bats and the glove work. I can’t recall a Cub team with a bigger disparity between hitting and pitching. It’s a shame.
Part of what got us to that 98% probability is pitching that we are unlikely to see the rest of the way. It doesn’t help that we have 3 more series against playoff teams.
They’ll squeak in and be easily dismissed. Nobody will consider that a success. Just making the playoffs is no victory for this club. The bar was much higher than that.
The only guy I remotely want to see come out of that bullpen is Civale. All the others are a 3 run bomb or a screaming double in the gap with runners on that they walked.
I mean, they are bottom barrel pitching; that’s an entire leg of the stool gone. It’s great to have such an amazing offense and defense but there’s no world where this team competes in the playoffs with a staff full of fluff.