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Or, the Cubs have gotten better at knowing what to charge for tickets.
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2017 All Star Game
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Post Count Padder's topic in General Baseball Talk
delightfully absurd -
Yes and no. Schwarber is a slow left handed hitter with pull heavy tendencies, so you don't expect him to run a league average BABIP(especially since a decent number of hits should go over the fence anyway). He's also having trouble hitting the ball as hard as he was at the very start of the year: As far as I can see, Schwarber is simply not punishing balls in the zone. He's being as selective as he always has and there hasn't been a drastic change in where pitchers are working him, but his exit velocity on pitches in the zone has gone down. Here's 2015 on the left and 2017 on the right. To me that spells a mechanical problem, compounded by pitchers doubling down on what's working so far. Sending Schwarber down doesn't fix anything, and since once he corrects that he'll be one of the best hitters on the team again there's plenty to be gained by letting him work through it. Considering the alternatives(Jay, Almora, Happ) are all struggling as well, there's no sense in demoting Schwarber(who given his insane work ethic doesn't need a wake up call or kick in the butt) to give the MLB at bats to someone else either.
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What are some examples of this? Not doubting at all, but it's not something I know off the top and it's a tough thing to search.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-29-17
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Robinson's May: 27 IP, 17 H, 3 ER, 24/2 K/BB That has my attention. Speaking of Rucker, it's interesting that they're starting to stretch him out a bit more after his promotion, 3.1 IP each of his last 2 appearnaces. -
The 2015 Cubs were 27-23 after 50 games too. The offense will pick up and the schedule was front loaded, it's just a matter of how much the pitching can pick up the pieces/be supplemented by trades to see how far they'll climb.
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I had the same thought till i saw the throw, that was a rocket
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MLB came close to punishing them for DLing Maeda when he was healthy, but they decided against it since they could have just as easily optioned Maeda for the same roster benefit. Which is to say they're not exactly going unnoticed. I like the shorter DL as a way to kinda have a taxi squad, but using it to have a 6 man rotation with only 5 roster spots is probably across the line.
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Grichuk has 2 home runs and a 1.218 OPS against the Cubs this year and 2 home runs and a .580 OPS against everyone else.
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Kershaw is coming awfully close to not pausing.
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who is going with him? No one. Or they can time it for the next time they swap the last reliever to give him a travel buddy, either is fine with me.
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that is a horrific call for the home plate umpire to make, although on replay it does look like he went
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Happ is now 2 for his last 19 with 11 strikeouts, we rode out the hot streak but now it's probably time for him to go back to Iowa.
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yes
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-28-17
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Burks went 2 for 4, nice to see him get back in a groove quickly. -
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Here's a good article from Fangraphs earlier this week: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-meaning-of-a-teams-50-game-record/ The thrust is that preseason projections are better predictors of rest of season record after 50 games than that 50 game record is. I don't know how the correlations break down for an individual(I imagine the 50 game is stronger than it is for the team), but I think you can take away a similar concept. Kyle Schwarber probably didn't forget how to hit and will improve markedly when he makes the necessary tweak/adjustment. Ian Happ probably didn't become a laser beam hitting machine and will revert to something more pedestrian. Someone will figure out how to give Contreras some xanax and his plate discipline will hopefully improve. Russell's shoulder should get better in time, etc. These are not guarantees, but the fact that they remain the most likely outcome is indicative that it's not really a demonstrable sample that we're working with to evaluate something like the effectiveness of a hitting coach(you can easily say such an evaluation is basically impossible, but that's a topic for another day).
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-27-17
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
listen here, I've been railing against Underwood for 3 years now, I'm the anti-Underwood hipster got dang it -
It is 1-0 in the 4th inning of the 2nd game of the series
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sometimes you bring the robot jokes on yourself
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-27-17
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Eloy with 2 walks, his unintentional BB% is now 15% -
Arrieta's career path is starting to resemble something out of Flowers for Algernon
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I mentioned this a little ways back, but the problem is less about the remainder of the season and more about someone who'd get 2 starts in a 7 game series.
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I just assumed that's why tomorrow's game doesn't start til 6
