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This is my least favorite of all the nonsense reasons trying to explain the Cubs offense being inconsistent. You know what makes you really inconsistent? When half your games have Kershaw/Hill/Jansen or Kluber/Miller/Allen throwing 99% of the innings. Even if you want to misuse pitch value stuff from Fangraphs the Cubs were middle of the road against curveballs. Also, the Indians starter who throws the most curves? Bauer, the starter the Cubs knocked around. So please, spare me the theories that teams unlocked the secret sauce to stopping the Cubs offense. The answer is be really good and/or make really good pitches, and that answers the question for every baseball team ever. EDIT: This is not directed at you, Cubfanintheknow, I know you're just a messenger here. It's just been several weeks of various folks trying to find a reason in pitch values and you don't need to go that deep. -
If you come back the pitcher's spot has to reach.
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Very much so. Kluber's stuff wasn't nearly as good and the Cubs hit him far better. Making a 3rd start in 9 days would amplify both of those things, I'd expect 3 runs in 5-6 innings.
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Careful.
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Miller has that 'give up a frozen rope to an outfielder' thing down pat, I'll give him that
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I really wouldn't let Heyward hit against Miller.
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I think it's a Harry quote, someone put a green apple in his statue's hand before the WS started.
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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.
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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.
