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Shaw went 2 for 5 with a walk yesterday, and has reached base 8 times in the last 5 games -
The Cubs first 29 games are against teams that are currently 26-5 this year when not playing the Cubs.
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pitches swung and missed, not strikeouts
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Setting aside Tokyo, PCA has a K rate under 20% and a BB rate above 10, and it's nigh impossible for me to be worried about him at the plate while those things are true.
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I'm not proud of how relieved I am that Cam Smith is getting the bat knocked out of his hands and we can avoid that discourse, at least for a while.
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there's the nickname, Shawt king
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Some players can't perform in the presence of true greatness (Eugenio Suarez)
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Intentional walk to load the bases with one out to get to the guy who hit a ball 450 feet off of you 3 innings ago, okay
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why is Lawrence Butler wearing a balaclava in 50 degree weather, he is not from Cuba
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-1-25
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Looks like Thursday for Horton: -
With a zillion run lead there are probably worse things than saving an inning on Brown's arm for later in the season, if that's what they choose.
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I am not 1000% sure of this, but my understanding is they are not allowed to option pitchers without an IL stint until we're 15 days into the season
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I am not 1000% sure of this, but my understanding is they are not allowed to option pitchers without an IL stint until we're 15 days into the season
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NL Central: Reds, Pirates and others
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in General Baseball Talk
After 4 games the Brewers *team ERA* is 12.81 -
Bringing in Morgan at all is the attempt to try to optimize for that day, Thielbar didn't have it so since they had the lead they were more aggressive bringing in someone to stop the bleeding after his walks. Once Morgan got shelled and you lost the lead there isn't another reasonable option unless you want to be in a big hole for Monday. It's not a black and white decision but it's an example of Counsell managing for more than just today. The pen put you in a bind, and you can either: 1) just let Morgan wear it and preserve the pen as much as possible for the next 3 days without an off day 2) make the problem worse on Monday on the off chance that Rea escapes a man on 2nd 1 out situation with no further damage and the team comes back on the Dbacks rested closer
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Morgan was very good in both of his outings prior to yesterday. I don't expect him to be an 8th/9th inning pillar, but if we're going to pretend that him having to wear a bad day because of team circumstances is a sign he's awful, we should probably weigh that against him looking excellent against multiple teams already in the young season.
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I think the expiration of Covid-era transfer rules will cool this down a fair amount, and I think this year is a touch fluky to begin with. Even if a bunch of 12-14 seeds didn't win, that still means the 1 seeds had to make it through harder paths against power conference foes and that's not very likely on average. Also the transfer portal moves players in all directions, not just upwards mobility to power conference schools. Using Southern Illinois as an example again, 4 of their Top 6 players in minutes were transfers.
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
Every so often I go back to his article on the guys that attacked the Royals first base coach at a White Sox game: https://www.espn.com/mlb/columns/ratto_ray/1434400.html -
Merryweather was said afterwards to be unavailable because he was warmed up multiple times on Saturday, though in the best case scenario someone has to be available to pitch the 9th too. Keller threw 46 pitches on Friday and somebody needs to be available in relief of Brown tomorrow(who is probably going to give you 5 max). It sucks to watch, but there isn't an obvious solution, you don't want to hamstring yourself for Monday in pursuit of *only* losing by 2 Sunday. Thanks to the Tokyo series interrupting preseason buildup they need to be cautious to avoid injury, and that means there aren't a lot of Plan Cs when you need the pen to give you 16 innings over 4 days with no off day coming til Thursday.
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He's being brought along slowly after his lat injury, he didn't make his first ST appearance until after the Tokyo series.
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The same reason Hodge(or Merryweather) didn't start the inning, no one can go back to back yet.
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It does say the distance was 366 and Wrigley's corner is only 355, so given the lofted trajectory(plus the basket) I lean towards thinking it would be out.
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Statcast says it's a homer in 29 parks but the breakdown of which one it would not be is not working for me. Very possible Wrigley is the 1.
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The Cubs have never trailed in this game and led for 7 innings!
