Transmogrified Tiger
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90% of your posts appear to be looking for reasons to be unhappy with the Cubs. Things are very bad right now, but the Cubs should be a thing that makes you happy. How can anything that has happened in the last 3 weeks make you happy? Setting aside that the Cubs have not been literally devoid of positive outcomes for the last 3 weeks, I'm making a broader point. If your relationship with the Cubs is that you are actively seeking out impending doom all the time, then maybe something is a bit off. -
90% of your posts appear to be looking for reasons to be unhappy with the Cubs. Things are very bad right now, but the Cubs should be a thing that makes you happy.
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I wasn't watching very closely, but JD was very impressed.
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If we can go back to having 2 people for Klinsmann's job I care a lot less who immediately replaces him. Arena plus a technical director with Klinsmann's ambition and ability to turn even 10% of that ambition to results would be an improvement, even more so if there's an understanding that Arena steps down after the World Cup. As long as they don't hire Kinnear or Vermes to play Hack2Win soccer I'm not super picky.
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Braun is now a poor man's Nelson Cruz owed 4/76 after this season. His trade value for his full contract is almost literally zero.
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Peralta DFA'd/ Ross to 7-Day DL
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Banedon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I'm sure Ross has Ted Lilly's phone number, so there's no need for elaborate theatrics if that's the point being made. -
Here's a somewhat exhaustive list of things that are causing the struggle. - Randomness. Even teams that win 110 games have poor stretches of 10-15 games - A bunch of games against good opponents - A stretch of mediocre starting pitching, which is mostly just regression from their incredible early season pace - Nearly 4 weeks without an off day, which combined with the point above means - More innings for the worst pitchers in the bullpen - Injuries to position players. Almora, Baez, and Contreras all have very good qualities. They(along with Candelario) have 30% of the Cubs July plate appearances entering tonight. That's not at all what we want and leads to stretches without offense when they inevitably have growing pains and stretches of not only outs, but poor approaches.
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Would yelling make things worse after going 4-11 in our last 15? 16-18 in their last 34. Even worse. This isn't a 15 game thing. 16-18 with a 4-11 stretch means they were 12-7 (a 102 win pace) prior to the 15 game stretch, in your larger sample.
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I was doing some work and saw the single and assumed this was the bad baserunning play by the Braves. Can't even use my foreknowledge properly.
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I know you guys might be pretty down but if it helps you've been a batter ahead of me all night which has been a nice buffer against the crushing reality of the game itself
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pretty sure I saw him violently chewing gum I'm pretty sure 'violently chewing gum' is Harrell's resting face, from what I saw today.
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Contreras is like all of the good things about Castro, some of the bad things, and none of the really bad things
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What is the word to describe that I like Hammel as a rotation pitcher and acknowledge that he's been good this year, but I worry about his second half and think him getting hurt now is fortuitous for the team's ability to reinforce the rotation with or without him? Because Happy about the injury doesn't seem to be quite right.
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http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2016&month=2&season1=2016&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=14,d
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Just over 20 minutes, UMFan got backpaged.
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The problem is mostly mechanical, so the silver lining is that those types of adjustments can happen real quick. Compare to say, Baez's plate discipline, which is going to be a near perpetual work in progress as he gets better at recognizing pitches so the improvement would be gradual. Mechanical tweaks are more pass/fail in their results. There are some worrisome aspects to Heyward's struggles too, inability to turn around velocity being the biggest. But even that is something that a mechanical/timing tweak can help with, and Heyward's past is informative because there's not a lack of ability/capacity for him to be a good hitter.
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Did you see Hammel's last start? I did, and we should have expected it because the start before that he....went 6 strong innings.
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I'm a bit frustrated and more disappointed by Heyward's lack of offense. I'm not expecting a huge turnaround, but at the same time I'm not resigning myself to a full season of this either considering his past streakiness.
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The Cubs are playing the worst team in baseball, at home, and they're facing a 31 year old AAAA SP. I don't understand sports fans.
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
Bad year for the wave of Cuban hitters that came through the last few years. Cespedes is killing the ball but no one else. Cespedes - .396 wOBA Tomas - .319 Abreu - .315 Soler - .308 Puig - .306 Castillo - .291 at AAA, put on waivers -
5 games entering today, since today was a close loss it's probably still 5.
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In that 17-17 stretch they have a +21 run differential and are 2 games under their pythagorean for that stretch alone too.
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Saturday
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Yeah, he's still walking too many guys, but he's kept the ball in the park, been hard to hit, and gotten K's. Good post. Timely.
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Yeah, he's still walking too many guys, but he's kept the ball in the park, been hard to hit, and gotten K's.
