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Minor League Discussion & Box, 4-6-24
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
2 walks for Shaw, if he starts taking those in between hitting laser beams for XBH then look out -
Mea culpa, same sentiment back to back!
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He didn't get it wrong, a reliever giving up runs doesn't mean the decision was a bad one. As Bertz said, you pay Counsell for good process, not to be a fortune teller. Pulling Wicks was good process.
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good stuff Dansby, that's not routine considering you don't really practice that footwork
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Cuas hadn't walked a hitter in 6 outings/6 IP going back to last September.
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Betts was the 2nd hitter of the inning and Wicks threw 16 pitches between Betts stepping to the plate and Wicks being pulled. Freeman is a left on left matchup who was 0 for 2, and Wicks took 9 pitches to get him. There exists a tipping point in game situation, pitch count, and opposing hitter where Wicks is no longer the best option, that tipping point was Hernandez.
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He was at a career high pitch count early in the season in cool weather, on top of Hernandez being a very bad matchup. Cuas going BB, WP, 1B off the wall doesn't change the probabilities of the decision Counsell had to make.
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Because you still need 4 more innings after this one after the pen threw 5 innings yesterday, and it was the start of a RHH dense portion of the lineup so you go with him to try and stop the bleeding against Hernandez and then then hopefully a few more outs unless he hits trouble or gets to Betts. But if you walk Hernandez without challenging him then you have the one remaining LHH to get past and that burned them.
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bad bad bad for Cuas, 4 out of 5 uncompetitive pitches
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This 'spin the wheel to see if your pitch on the edge is a strike this time' zone is so frustrating to watch
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Justice for the .210 xBA single and the 74 mph EV single from earlier in the inning
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Freddie Freeman is 4 months older than Hendricks, I call shenanigans
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can't wait for Ohtani to hit this 2-0 pitch to the moon when it should be 1-1
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The thing that I forgot about Smyly last year until recently is that he wasn't Shawn Estes the whole year until he got moved to the pen, on June 27th he had a 3.38 ERA in a half-season's worth of starts. So I think we should be open to the idea that he got out of sync in some way(e.g. minor injury that begat mechanical issues) and the move to the pen ended up being the scenery change that got him back on track.
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I would characterize today as having unlucky defense cost him 2 runs in the first, and then several really good hitters squaring him up the 3rd time through the order. I don't think there's anything particularly problematic about that, those guys either won't be in other lineups or Hendricks will have a little better endurance to hit spots later in the year and mitigate some of that. Against Texas he got beat around more, but that also was an excellent lineup.
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still thinking about the obvious 1-1 strike Hendricks didn't get to Betts
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I feel like Hoerner made it look easy enough that many are not going to appreciate just how absurd it was. Diving arm side while also getting an in between hop so he fielded it above his head mid-dive, then getting up on the grass and firing a bullet to get a very fast runner in Lux.
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goodness gracious that is an absolutely insane play by Hoerner, very possible the team doesn't make a better one all year
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the Madrigal web gems will continue until morale improves
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lol at Swanson watching that Madrigal play
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I don't think they quite have the upside in the middle of the order, but this lineup is gonna be up there with 2016 in terms of just being a relentless slog to go through.
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do you think Prior told him 'watch out for line drives at the elbow' during that mound visit
