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Baez at 2nd has the luxury of being able to get his body 'outside' of the throw, so he can use the throw to move towards the hitter. Bryant catching a pickoff throw at 3rd as a righty has to move the glove across his body no matter what. Also, yes, Baez is that fast. -
Why use him in a low leverage situation? You might not get to use him in a high-leverage situation. Also I think he'll do better against Kluber than some Indians bullpen person. You have at least 1 and probably a 2nd pinch hit opportunity for the pitcher's spot alone. Maybe they give up a bunch of runs, but you take that risk on the chance that Schwarber can actually step to the plate as the tying run or better.
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Again while I was really trying to buy into the whole "Javy randomly turned into a very good hitter overnight" I was always kind of bracing for this because well he's done it all year. Has 2 good weeks then a bad month. I am not sure why...actually kind of perplexing to see someone have a great approach and then a terrible one. but either way this is regular season Javy. Just be thankful we had awesome Javy earlier in the playoffs because I'm not sure we are even playing right now without him. Javy definitely had some good PAs against RHP in the first 2 rounds(the HR against Cueto, the oppo double off Maeda), but he was also shielded by facing an inordinate amount of LHSP(5 of 10 NLDS/NLCS games). Now the only lefty he's going to face is Miller, and he's facing righties far better than he's seen thus far too.
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We need 2 starters from the group of Baez/Heyward/Coghlan/Soler/Almora. I'd think hard about sitting Javy in another start against Kluber, but the two reverse split guys coming up are decent matchups for him. Of course for the latter half of the game when Shaw/Miller/Allen eat him alive I don't have an answer, but I'm not terribly more optimistic about 2 guys being better for the pen either.
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It doesn't really take a certain pitch right now. The Cubs would be fouling off BP fastballs This is less about anything he's said tonight and more about his complete inability to see beyond the scope of his playing position. It's like geocentrism for broadcasters.
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re: broadcasters, Smoltz is veering very, very close to Steve Stone territory, where everything is a simple problem to be solved by making a certain pitch and hitters are powerless in the face of a properly executed pitch(pitchers not doing so are "struggling"). Buck is fine, Smoltz is bad bad bad
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does Roberto Perez know he's Roberto Perez
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"if there's one pitch that gives Zobrist trouble, it's the slider" *Zobrist gets a slider and smokes it foul*
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he definitely gives off a Mose Schrute vibe
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Yeah, through 3 innings he's only given up 3 hard hit balls, and 2 of them have arguably come on strike 4. I'm okay forfeiting one of the 21 outs remaining so that the bullpen doesn't need to get 18 in the midst of 3 games in 3 days.
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how about we let Montgomery meet his future today
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Let's say the pitches to teeth ratio is rapidly approaching one
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LOL at that Statcast graphic
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welcome back inside corner
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I think it was the road Nationals series that was like this, where every game the Cubs gave up most all their runs on two singles or less. What an infuriating way to give up runs.
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was the Indians dugout making mock indian noises?
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as a reminder, in the playoffs the only game the Cubs have lost when they've scored a run required extra innings and Conor Gillaspie tripling off Chapman
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It might be the camera angle but I haven't seen any looney tunes movement on a 2 seamer yet. Without that I'm way more optimistic about getting to him.
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My "happy to be here"-ness comes from what has already transpired and not what is likely to come. The Cubs were the best team in baseball this year, and it wasn't close, nor their performance a fluke. In the last two years no team is within 14 games of the Cubs. I've already gotten an incredible amount of enjoyment and satisfaction out of watching them run roughshod over MLB for 300+ games. I would very much like to cap that off with a World Series to put to rest the drought/curse/narrative silliness that might impede them from being remembered as such a dominant team, but my appreciation for the Cubs doesn't hinge on them winning this series, especially since at this point they haven't been eliminated 'early' or otherwise been considered a playoff disappointment. All that said, this game does feel like the series decider. Winning 3 straight elimination games is a tall order, but winning 2 of 3 when you have your best 3 starters against short rest Bauer, short rest Tomlin, and Kluber for the 3rd time in 9 days(and having just won a Kluber start) feels like an overwhelming advantage.
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the forum equivalent of skipping bp
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We're 4 hours away, this is the game thread.
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I'd rather Coghlan start again personally, but I'm not upset that Heyward is in there.
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also, I just re-watched the Soler triple, and he hesitates for like a split second before booking it out of the box, he didn't cost himself a bunch of steps, and that reaction is instinctual to the flight of the ball too. But just in case we think it really does matter, a quick point of comparison. Using the broadcast, From the time the ball hits the bat to the time Kipnis receives the relay throw just into the RF grass was 13 seconds. For comparison, here's Tyler Naquin(an unequivocally faster runner than Soler) hitting an inside the park HR where he slides across at 16 seconds: http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v1070372483/torcle-naquin-hits-insidethepark-walkoff-homer That means that even if we assume that Soler with 'hustle' is as fast as someone faster than him, that Kipnis has 3 seconds to get the ball to the plate. For comparison, for Soler to be safe in those circumstances would be like him beating the throw to 1B on a line drive to short that the SS drops right in front of him. Again, 0 percent chance of that happening.
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Assuming Heyward was standing in the exact same place Soler was when the ball was hit, sure. [tweet] [/tweet] And with a huge wind and Davis on first with 1 out, Heyward sure wasn't going to be playing more shallow than usual. 0.0% chance Soler or any other RF makes that catch, and 0.0% chance that Soler scores on his triple if he books it out of the box. He should run hard either way, it's the world series and you're a part time player, there isn't a tomorrow to keep yourself healthy for. But it didn't hurt the Cubs yesterday, and Soler had another hit to boot on a night where the Cubs had 5 total. I fully expect him to not be in the lineup today against Kluber.
