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For a point of reference, Lester gave up 15 ER in his first 21.2 IP as a Cub. I’m not really worried, two of those starts very much seemed like running out of steam which I expect will improve as the year progresses. I was happy to see him get rid of the hesitation too. Doing that every pitch doesn’t make much sense to me, you want to vary your pace at random for it to be effective, like Cueto is good at doing.
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Even amazing MLB teams will lose 2+ months’ worth of games. Many of them will be very dumb and frustrating losses. Baseball is so great because you don’t have to retreat to the angrydome after every frustrating thing that happens because these things largely come out in the wash. The Cubs aren’t even going through a terrible stretch either, assuming no comeback they’ll be 9-9 with only 7 games at home and most of the games played in weather that’s barely football weather. Baseball gives you freedom from fearing doom around every corner, be liberated by it! OK? Again, it's like you and Cubswin act like you have to lecture the rest of us as to how baseball works when we're venting in the game threads over the course of a pretty mundane start to the season. We get it; almost everyone here thinks the Cubs have an awesome team. With that comes elevated hopes and expectations that make starts like this, while obviously likely not disastrous, really horsefeathering annoying. Like 17 pointed out, that everything comes out in the wash doesn't make actually following/watching long stretches of mediocre baseball any more enjoyable. Again, if you’re co-signing a sentiment that treats following the 2017 Cubs as a disappointment or exercise in frustration, I just can’t relate to it. Think how narrow that makes your window for enjoying following a team. -
Full stop. You guys keep trying to make it sound like everyone who isn't on the same page as you is like that r_mack or whatever the horsefeathers guy and just think they're terrible and destined to fail. Most of us are just annoyed that a team that SHOULD be a lot better keeps finding so many different ways to have these long stretches of not being consistently awesome (or worse). We all know the Cubs easily could and should be better, but some of us would rather vent than acting like it's not frustrating as hell when they rack up too many dumb losses, or things stack up like the starting rotation looking like complete butt. Even amazing MLB teams will lose 2+ months’ worth of games. Many of them will be very dumb and frustrating losses. Baseball is so great because you don’t have to retreat to the angrydome after every frustrating thing that happens because these things largely come out in the wash. The Cubs aren’t even going through a terrible stretch either, assuming no comeback they’ll be 9-9 with only 7 games at home and most of the games played in weather that’s barely football weather. Baseball gives you freedom from fearing doom around every corner, be liberated by it!
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I just cannot relate to the mindset that is so vocally worried about doom 10% into a baseball season. Especially a team with the talent the Cubs have, and one that has seen the Cubs run roughshod over the league in the second half every year of Maddon’s tenure. There isn’t even a team in the division getting off to an incredible start that we can start having mathematical worries about either.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-21-18
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
You all won’t believe this, but Underwood got smacked around. -
Gleyber Torres Getting Called up to the Bigs
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I’ve been beating this drum for years. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to have next-gen Placido Polanco on my team, but that is not a thing that I will have an ounce of regret about losing. -
Javy hesitated when he had the chance to run into Lemahieu, he might’ve gotten the call
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He’s had so many of those against RHP so far. I wanna try to remain skeptical, but if you sketched out what it would look like for Javy to make the leap, it’d be exactly like this.
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TLS is the best pinch hitter in the game and I would doubt if it’s particularly close
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They threw over to first and Russell got back easily. Russell did the increasingly common move of leaving his hand on the base while he stood up and swung his leg around to replace the hand on the base(I'm poorly describing it but I think you get the idea). As he made that transition Martinez tagged him again and then frantically signaled for the dugout to ask for a review. They called their review people and declined to challenge. I actually think he was out on that so I’m glad they declined. It is possible there was a gap, but it wasn't very obvious. Also since Martinez did a separate tag on Russell's hip(as opposed to holding the glove on him) it was probably impossible to find a camera angle that showed he tagged him during what would've been an extremely small window.
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Tell me about this please. They threw over to first and Russell got back easily. Russell did the increasingly common move of leaving his hand on the base while he stood up and swung his leg around to replace the hand on the base(I'm poorly describing it but I think you get the idea). As he made that transition Martinez tagged him again and then frantically signaled for the dugout to ask for a review. They called their review people and declined to challenge.
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between Martinez spazzing about Russell leaving the base, Heyward's home run, and Lester hitting a laser up the middle, this has been a very enjoyable 3 minutes of Cubs baseball
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Since his call-up last year, Weaver has given up 14 runs to the Cubs in 5 innings. Against all other teams combined, 30 runs in 108.2 innings.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-18-18
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Little's two outings have come in weather generously described as 40 degrees, I'm not terribly worried about down velocity. 5 walks in 18 batters is a different story, although history is full of guys who take a few games to settle in to a level too. -
do work carl
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Haven't been able to find a vid clip of that AB. Skip to 39:40
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
In a 4 year span, the Nats drafted Strasburg, Harper, Rendon, Goodwin, Storen, and Giolito in the first/supplemental first round. -
14 games in 19 days
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-16-18
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Rucker went 3 (uninspiring) innings before Tennessee was rained out, so I would guess he’s not gonna go again tomorrow. -
lmao "his teammate" Sorry, don't have the faces of the entire Mariners roster memorized That’s Nelson Rodriguez, who got about 20 at bats for the 2014 Cubs.
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It’s no less bizarre than the average exit velocity of players wearing odd numbered jerseys on tuesdays after the 4th inning. It’s borderline pointless trivia.
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Dodgers a few innings away from being 6.5 games behind the DBacks(they’d also fall to last in the West if the Padres hold on). That’s quite the head start to spot them, especially since I’m not all that sure the Dodgers are 7 games better than the DBacks with Turner broken and their pitching being what it is.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-14-18
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I’m gonna need Underwood to keep that up for a while before I start believing in him. By my calculations he needs to perform until...2027 to reach that point. -
why did I wait 6 months to be excited to watch baseball, there is so much sad in baseball
