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Win the next two and forget about today.
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At least he got out of it with just the 1 allowed.
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MAYBE in the offseason it would an avenue to explore but unlikely. Q has a cheap option for next year and we need SP and augmenting the 5th spot next year with Adbert next year without spending on it can open up some money to build out the rest of the roster on offense or bullpen. I doubt Q can return anything right now that makes us better for the year and it's probably a toss up in the offseason too. There's ways to work Adbert in (regardless of Hendricks health) this year to maximize things. I figure a Lester trip to the IL, real or made up, is all but an inevitably (and maybe more than once), so that alone is probably going to get him a decent amount of starts. But yeah, the Cubs are nowhere near any kind of pitching depth where they could consider trading a starter. And if you really want to keep him up when Hendricks gets back, just go to a 6 man rotation for a while, especially if we have a long stretch with no off days. No harm in giving our guys an extra day of rest each time through.
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Yikes If the kid can take a spot next year is it really crazy to consider? At this point I would pay Hamels for a couple more years. We are stuck with Lester and Darvish and we extended Hendricks. Not saying they pull the trigger but do you at least see if you can get something? Hendricks is on the IL already and pitchers get injured all the time. When Hendricks comes back and Adbert either stays in the pen or AAA for the rest of the year, that's great because it means nobody else got hurt.
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reminds me of one of my favorite non-cubs baseball moments ever McCarver going "oh boy" right after he gets picked off is amazing.
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That was glorious. After they got away with sending Martinez in a very dumb way. That was my thought also. There's two outs and you're down 2. He's scoring on any hit anyway and he's not the tying run. No need to risk him getting thrown own at home.
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Cards put in Flaherty to pinch run for Molina at second in the 11th, down 7-6. He wasn’t paying close enough attention and got picked off to end the game.
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That’s what AAA is for.
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https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27013139/dodgers-hill-left-forearm-il-mri-thurs
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Jimenez was done with AA and AAA by 22, having run through the levels at 20 and 21. He was only in the minors for his age 21 and some of his age 22 seasons because teams manipulate service time and openly tank in this proud era of baseball. Schwarber was a year older at the same level. It’s not like there was a 3-4 year age difference. And Eloy this year is the same age as Schwarber was in 2015 when he got called up. So far, BA and SLG are essentially the same but Schwarber has 45 points of OBP on Eloy. Both struck out at 28%. You might end up being right. Eloy might end up being a way better hitter than Schwarber. But he hasn’t been so far in the majors at the same age and when he was a year younger in AA and AAA, their numbers were probably pretty similar, when you adjust Schwarber’s BABIP down.
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I feel like I'm the only one actually looking at Eloy's performances in pro ball right now rather than going with some generalization of. He's been that! At 20-22 the guy put up something like .335/.385/.570 with a 16% K rate and 26 HRs in 551 PAs between AA and AAA. That is incredible hitting! I read this situation as some Cubs fans over correcting for overrating Schwarber as a prospect Schwarber had a 1.022 OPS across AA and AAA at age 22. He hit 16 HRs in 310 PAs, which is a pace of 28.5 for 551 PAs. Schwarber did have an unsustainable BABIP of around .390-.400 though. He then came up and put up a .842 OPS in the majors at 22. Jimenez has a .798 OPS so far this year in around 80 less PAs. K rates are basically the same in the majors at 28-29% and Schwarber nearly walked twice as often. People might be underrating Eloy but it seems like you might be underrating what Schwarber did in the minors and before he blew out his knee. And to be fair, we'll never know how much, if at all, that affected Schwarber's development.
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Well we didn’t get Harper so someone on the team has to do it.
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Time to panic. Brewers going to crush this easy schedule they've got coming up with the Marlins, Giants and Padres.
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Cards just had bases loaded no outs in the bottom of the 10th against the Marlins and didn't score.
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Well you got the first half right. Hope you’re wrong about the second part.
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So they either won’t get it in at all or will get all nine innings in. Got it. You’re correct, looks like a total washout. Spot on like always.
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Would be nice if they kept it up for the next couple weeks and the Cubs got hot.
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So they either won’t get it in at all or will get all nine innings in. Got it.
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He looks like complete horsefeathers lately, I’m worried. I wonder if the little extra wear and tear of playing SS is affecting him a little. You can tie it to when he got hurt against Washington. He’s trying to play through it and it’s probably still bothering him. .953 OPS before and a .677 OPS after the injury.
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I can give you a handful of days this year where people were more pessimistic. Go look up the game threads from March 31-April 5. The Cubs lost 6 straight games and allowed 8, 11, 8, 6, 9 and 13 runs. They blew five leads in the first three of those games, then got hammered in the last three (the third one was 13-10 but it was 13-5 going into the 8th). I'm sure you were losing your horsefeathers back then, although that's not really much different than most other days over the past year or so for you.
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This is an incredibly dumb statement, even for you. it is? when were you less optimistic about the future since he took over? You're going to have to give me a few minutes. I'm going to need to go back and remember my thoughts on the future of the Cubs on each of the 2806 days that Epstein has been in charge.
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This is an incredibly dumb statement, even for you.
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Bryant has to be on second there.
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But it does matter. This whole thing started because I brought up you moaning about the Brewers easy schedule going into the ASB relative to ours. Since then, we’ve played better than them during a stretch where we played 3 more games against a much tougher schedule. So yes, the home games do matter during this discussion about the Cubs’s recent play.
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They went 8-6 during that stretch. That might not sound impressive but it’s a pace of 92.5 wins over a full season, which against 4 teams over .500, is pretty good. You want to tread water or a bit better against the good teams and pound the bad teams. What we just did over 14 games was a bit better. They also went 6-3 earlier against the DBacks and Dodgers (though they did go 2-7 to start the year in the first 9 game stretch I mentioned). I’m sure you’ll hand wave off that 6-3 record though as not being that impressive (not long enough? 6 games were at home?).