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Lol. ‘How can I make six of the first seven guys reaching base negative’
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7 walks in 7.1 AAA innings. Probably not the guy to solve our 3rd worst bullpen walk rate in baseball issue.
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And there’s no way we would have gotten a worse result going that way than the way we went. But we gave leiter the 8th on Wednesday with a one run lead and he gave up a single, then walked the go ahead run (a lefty), and had to get bailed out by almonte, which contributed to why almonte couldn’t pitch today. your most likely paths are making leiter throw more pitches than he’s thrown since August or being left with adbert and Colton to clean up. it’s all easier in hindsight. We spent all of September blaming Ross for this type of stuff, brought in the supposed best guy for the job, and are now watching him doing the same thing. Maybe NSBB has solved it. Or maybe it’s just something without an easy answer.
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Well I don’t think you can add cubs runs to the other side of the coin. We’d still be playing if they added a couple runs. Leiter has been good, but has been used disproportionately against lefties, which weren’t up in the 8th, and didn’t look great last time out either. it’s Deja vu to last year: there aren’t any good options.
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Let’s revolutionize pitching. New rotation: Steele/Wesneski Shota/Assad Brown/Hendricks Taillon/Horton
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Maybe, but Leiter’s pitch count getting up there implies some trouble and then you’re left with adbert’s first save opp in a while being immediately high leverage or whatever a Colton brewer is. Obviously the decision made didn’t work, though babip gets a good amount of blame. it’s the starting pitching injuries. Taillon has made 2 starts, brown isn’t fully a starter, neither is Wes, they knew about shota’s routine when they signed him (and they let him go 7 yesterday). If Assad is the guy you give the most leeway too, that’s an issue. And there isn’t anyone in the pen designed to go multiple innings.
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score more than one run against the mediocre pitcher next time
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hahaha and now the other tally!
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lol update the total!
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it's kinda weird watching Contreras catch because he has just enough of the mannerisms of Willson to give you some nostalgia/flashbacks, but it coming in an obviously different person and very different uniform throw you off
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yeah a classic Morel binge would go a long way while everyone else figures it out
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Yeah the Brewers being so good offensively so far feels incredibly smoke and mirrors-y, but....still a very dominant performance.
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That's really unfortunate
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That's good hustle from Morel after getting pretty unlucky.
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.930 xBA. Never once looked like a hit once you saw PCA.
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We really shouldn't be taking these starting pitching performances for granted. No idea if this filter works at all, but when I look at team starting pitching by guys on the active roster (basically trying to remove Hendricks), we have a 1.67 ERA.
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Yeah you feel for the guy who has done like....98% of what it takes to be a major leaguer and is pretty obviously aware that it's slipping away one bad AB at a time. But can't have this performance out of the 1B or DH spot.
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Back to back infield singles is annoying. In front of a lefty is even more annoying
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5/2/24 - CHC (Brown) @ NYM (Houser) 12:10 MSN
squally1313 replied to Brian707's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
OPS for outfielders across the league right now is .689 -
I feel like that's taking too many ABs away from Tauchman, who is obviously unsustainably good right now but has made progress that should carry over (and was a 107 wRC already last year). Yeah, maybe you just make the outfield a four man rotation, even five man with Busch/Belli at first as an option....but I think all of those guys are definitively better than Wisdom.
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5/2/24 - CHC (Brown) @ NYM (Houser) 12:10 MSN
squally1313 replied to Brian707's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Since the beginning of 2022, Ian Happ has been the 16th most valuable outfielder in baseball. 27th in wRC for guys with over 500 PAs. There are 90 outfield spots in baseball. This team has a handful of non-elite but but nonetheless very, very good, first division starters (and, to fend off the other bad argument, none of them are making elite money). Dansby is not Mookie, but he is an excellent shortstop. Nico is not Semien, but he is a great second baseman. Seiya is not Soto, but he is a really good right fielder. You could probably throw Bellinger and Steele in this mix too (along with a hopefully eventually fixed Azlolay). -
Are there a lot of opportunities for Wisdom in that scenario? He doesn't do enough defensively to be the guy to replace Morel late game, he's definitely second on the DH pecking order behind Tauchman against all lefties and most RHP (and probably behind Mastro for the rest). In a full strength line up you're basically just using him as a PH for the catcher a few times a week, and those situations (guys on base, high velocity reliever) tend to line up pretty badly, in my opinion, for a guy with a 35% K rate. If we go three catchers, I probably lean Madrigal over Wisdom for the time being. I think Madrigal is a 'we need a ball in play' cheat code and the overall body of evidence at third still points to a solid upgrade defensively. It's entirely possible that that piece is a mirage and goes away, and then yeah, let's reconsider. But maybe by then we're in the thick of a division race and start prioritizing the contributions of a Caissie/PCA/etc over regular PAs.
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squally1313 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
throw me on the list -
This is dumb, we can all pick and choose sample sizes. For example: as of April 19th this year he had a 110 wRC (184 in the first 8 games). 9/1-9/12 last year it was 144. You're picking the most recent 2 weeks and the 2 weeks of last year that everyone paid attention to the most and ignoring an overall body of excellent production. If you want assign disproportionate blame based on the importance of those games in late September last year, go ahead, but it's a weaker argument because clutch isn't really a thing. I mean, he's on pace for 3 wins this year looking at the whole season. If that's our main concern, we should be just fine.
