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Murton getting benched again for lesser player
Transmogrified Tiger replied to RegulusBlue's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Don't forget Eric Karros, Mark Grudzielanek, and Shawn Estes. -
I'm more humiliated by monotonously using "in the past" on both ends of my point than anything.
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If by "at all" you mean, "about 5 times", then you'd be in the ballpark.
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because he hit one home run? he's on pace for what, 7 or 8? uh, but he hit one in this game. That means we're being irrational. You're going to have a coronary if you don't stop taking what's said in Game Thread's seriously.
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Take it back.
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JJ Hardy is a defensive superstar, two plays now he screws up going to his left.
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Len is the man.
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Just in case somebody missed it.
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Going from your list below, that means we can expect... Stephen Head to put up an OPS in AA approaching 1.000(last year: .696 in A+) Something similar to that from Brian Pettway(last year: .767 in A-) A near .800 OPS from Barry Gunther(last year: .658 in A- at age 24) ~1.5 WHIP, ~6.75 K/9, and ~3.0 BB/9 from Anthony Cupps(last year: 1.83 WHIP, 4.97 K/9, 5.28 BB/9 in A+)
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You're going to have to explain that one to me. There are some situations where they are late and able to get the lighter bat into the zone at the last second and foul it off as well as the improved bat control can also foul off a pitch. So a switch to wood means the hitter changes the weight of the bat he swings? That seems counter-intuitive to me. It all depends at what level, many wood bats are -3 (31 ounces and 34 inch length for example), many HS and colleges require a similar rating. Youth bats are crazy as far as ounces/length. The same reason why a hitter would overload train with a heavier bat is the same reason why they add weight when they're in the OD circle. The main thing that separates a wood bat and an aluminum one is the length of the sweet spot, it's about 2X as big on the aluminum. If I was a HS coach, I'd want my hitters practicing with wood. So if Wood bats are mostly -3, then there'd be no difference since -3 is the standard in aluminum bats(unless you're at kiddie levels like you mentioned).
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You're going to have to explain that one to me. There are some situations where they are late and able to get the lighter bat into the zone at the last second and foul it off as well as the improved bat control can also foul off a pitch. So a switch to wood means the hitter changes the weight of the bat he swings? That seems counter-intuitive to me.
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You're going to have to explain that one to me.
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I was gonna with the rest of the decade actually. Might wanna just add in 2010-2019 too... hey so are we going to start reusing the decade number's naming thing.. like the 1920's are just called the 20's...etc? just curious...this question keeps me awake at night, sometimes. I've been wondering that as well. "The 2020's" just doesn't sound right does it. twenties squared?
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That's asinine. Aramis hit a freaking HR. That HR was the difference in the ball game if Lee doesn't try to steal. For the life of me, I cannot understand Cub fans. ITS NOT BAD LUCK THAT IS KEEPING THE CUBS FROM WINNING Tell me, what exactly is asinine about what I said? Asinine:" You cannot really Aramis would've hit that HR if Lee had been called safe or hadn't tried to steal at all." Aramis did hit a HR and Lee did get called out. This isn't chaos theory nor is it the butterfly effect. All we have to go on is exactly what happened. And what happend was a dumb play followed by a HR that should have been the difference in the ball game. You're right, the outcome would've been exactly the same if Lee had been on third base. The same pitch would've been made with the same velocity and location even with a different number of outs, runners in scoring position, and a different delivery.
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That's asinine. Aramis hit a freaking HR. That HR was the difference in the ball game if Lee doesn't try to steal. For the life of me, I cannot understand Cub fans. ITS NOT BAD LUCK THAT IS KEEPING THE CUBS FROM WINNING Butterfly Effect
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The Brewers have scored 4 or fewer in 9 of their 19 games and they're on top of the division. They're also 7-3 in games decided by 2 runs or less.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 4-24-2007
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Bad Marmol, throw strikes. Great to see the K's from Samardzija, although it came with more walks too. -
Pyth is worthless at this stage. It looks good thanks to a couple high scoring games. I've never liked its inability to account for feast or famine offenses like the Cubs, and that is just exasperated this early in the season. Take out the Cubs 2 highest and 2 lowest scoring games, and their average runs scored drops from about 4.6 to 4.3. The Cubs aren't having bad luck. They are a flawed team having all its weaknesses exposed. People keep talking about the 1 and 2 run losses, but the Cubs have lost by 3, 4 and 5 runs as well. When you are a bad team with a bad record, your record is going to be bad in just about every split. The Cubs need to drastically improve their play, not hope for luck to start going there way. So you think their 0-9 mark in close games is indicative of their true ability? They've lost close games with no scoring, with lots of scoring, and in between. CCP has shown that they aren't losing a ton of games by other deficits. Unless you can point to a specific reason why they'll continue to be mind bendingly bad in close games, then there's no reason to assume they won't correct that, and that's the difference right now between last place and first place, never mind what's in between.
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No team can continue to have luck as bad as the Cubs have had in close games to start the year. We have the best pythagorean record in the Central, which isn't a surprise given that the team is supposed to be right there with the rest of the mediocrity in the division. Give some time for these things to even out a bit.
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What do you hate more?
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Butterscup1679666578's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I'm not sure if Carson Daly is responsible for the Cubs bad start, but I say we hunt him down just to be sure. -
I'm hoping guys like Howry, Eyre, and Ohman become more consistent when (if) we can start getting more than 5 innings out of Zambrano and our 5 slot. Our bullpen is throwing a lot of innings this year so far. Yep. Having Howry/Cotts/Ohman consistently going for the 6th/7th inning to set up Wuertz and Dempster I think would really strengthen the pen. Although I do like how Wuertz has been used in high leverage situations before the end of the game.
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Maybe, if we pray to Baby Jesus, we'll keep playing into the 23rd inning and the game will be called. How about Grown-Up Jesus? He likes baby Jesus the best, okay? Lookin at his Baby Einstein videos, don't even know a word yet...
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ah i see, so write off the stat that doesn't go with your argument and latch onto the one that does. Popular tactic. You are truly the bastion of objectivity.
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why are we bunting to get to DeRosa (or more importantly) Blanco? Because Blanco can quickly turn into Barrett.
