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They won 92 games with a 4.5 win right fielder. If it’s World Series or bust, fine, then the people who complain about everything will be proven right 97% of the time. But it was very cool having those three playoff games at wrigley and winning the series and Tucker was absolutely a key part of that.

They traded for a 4-5 win baseball player who put up 4.5 wins and we won home field advantage for the wild card by 2 games and then won that series and it was really cool. I know that stuff is in the past and therefore doesn’t matter or whatever, but we really need to stop fetishizing banking future wins at the expense of being good now. Bellinger at $25m vs Tucker (a better player) at $16m is maybe Matt Boyd in terms of the difference in salary.

Feel like the one thing we’re missing this series, probably because he’s a bad hitter playing a premium offensive position, is some big Cam Smith moment so that people can complain about trading for the 4.5 fWAR guy last year again.

I really think you need to conceptualize how bad today’s offenses are compared to the offenses the majority of us grew up with. for the overall season, we are the 4th or 5th best offense in baseball. I would assume ‘cubs offense in the games we lose’ would be roughly in line with ‘other teams offense in the games they lose’. The general opinion here seems to be ‘this was a historically amazing offense for a month, with the same players that were a top 5 offense last year, but actually it sucks’ which seems a little crazy to me.

Lineup construction doesn’t matter but I would love to have someone explain PCA in the lead off spot

The team that is the worst lineup in baseball an overwhelming majority of the time is 4th or 5th in wRC/wOBA this year, so those brief moments that aren’t the overwhelming majority, they must be the greatest offense in baseball/sports history

Well the multiple 10 game winning streaks were really cool, hopefully you caught those, and showed that, when they time everything right, they’re capable of being one of the best teams in baseball. This is a really ****** stretch and there are some very obvious holes in the roster, both self inflicted and injury driven, but better to this in may than in October. since the beginning of last year they’re 121-93 (besides the .500 record in playoff games). Could be better, sure, could be a lot worse.

Yay small ball

(Our bad pitchers pitch badly) what if we switch the batting order up and also maybe execute Ian Happ

It’s always Happ and Swanson though, isn’t it? they had a day off yesterday. Whatever arguments you can make about a breather helping is countered by the concept of needing to see continued PAs. We also want to win baseball games and the guys that are playing are pretty definitely the best options compared to the alternatives. Did we bench Michael Busch for multiple games?

Kevin alcantara is still a cub because A. Jed is overly risk averse and B. PCA has an injury prone profile, and he can moonlight as a worse version of PCA. Him playing corner outfield in the major leagues is a lot like playing Matt Shaw out there. You’re wasting his best talent (good defense at a premium position) and he can’t hit nearly good enough to justify the spot. But Matt Shaw is probably a better hitter.

Yeah we should bench the 123 wRC guy because of his 33.0% strikeout rate. That’s just too many strikeouts. In his place, let’s bring up the guy who has a 33.3% strikeout rate against significantly worse pitching. This is smart decision making.

There’s some monkey paw horsefeathers about the 2025 cubs refusing to get swept and winning 5.5 of every 10 games and people complaining about the competent mediocrity and then them doing this so far this year.

We need to keep him around to be a backup infielder in case of injury??? Have you seen our rotation?

I can find them just fine, taking advantage of them is a different story am I right fellas