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  1. squally1313
    Alternatively, we've played the world series champs and the best team in baseball, have been down two starters basically the whole time to non-season ending injuries, and are playing at a 94 win pace.
  2. squally1313
    Caveating that none of this really matters, some interesting nuances in that lineup: Busch over Dansby, the Morel/Mastro combo in the infield with Madrigal not starting.
  3. squally1313
    5:40 local start before I blow off work the rest of the week for the Masters?
  4. squally1313
    Nico also has a .167 BABIP (.300 and .312 the last two years) and either a .364 (FG) or .345 (BaseballSavant) xwOBA (.320 and .322 wOBA the last two years). It's certainly jarring to see such a change in approach and the BA and SLG so far, but I don't know if it's a failed experiment just yet.
  5. squally1313
    Fun with sample sizes and selectively choosing data: since the rain delay against LA, the cubs have thrown 22 straight innings without anyone who was considered to be in their healthy starting rotation. Ie, bullpen pitchers. 8 earned runs in that stretch, for a 3.27 ERA.
  6. squally1313
    Yeah I was a little disappointed at that 2-0 swing by seiya on the curveball in the dirt but it’s obvious he’s pretty locked in. Those two aren’t quite as dynamic as Cain/yelich back in the day, but they are going to consistently wear down opposing pitchers.
  7. squally1313
    Man Yan Gomes pimping a home run to center was not something I had on my bingo card
  8. squally1313
    At the risk of jinxing things, this is pretty clutch from brown. Definitely still some work to do, but there was a pretty significant ‘blow up in the first two innings’ risk here that he was able to avoid
  9. squally1313
    Nico is definitely going through something. He can glove his way to a 3 WAR and I think there’s built in improvement to offset his struggles elsewhere, but the approach has been real weird.
  10. squally1313
    I'm sorry you think he makes too much money
  11. squally1313
    The Taillon injury forced our best stretch reliever into the rotation, the Steele injury took the next guy who could soak up innings and forced him into the rotation. So now you lose your two best long relief guys AND you have two rotation spots filled with (the same) guys who aren't fully stretched out). And then our best starter got shut down after 4 dominant innings because April weather sucks. You can't really problem solve for something like this in one offseason, and there are too many restrictions on number of pitchers you can carry, options, 40 man roster, etc to just churn through a bunch of AAA journeyman starts. Everyone hates their bullpens. Last year we just blamed the manager instead.
  12. squally1313
    Hahaha complaining about our .991 OPS shortstop who is actually underperforming his xwOBA by 42 points because he has 2 errors in 10 games. Probably still shaking the rust off.
  13. squally1313
    Not trying to minimize as much as I'm trying to point to really bad sequencing and selective memory, but the Cubs bullpen had a 3.56 ERA in October last year and were 18th in fWAR, while being 28th in WPA
  14. squally1313
    4. Our offense is Good.
  15. squally1313
    We played a game last night where it was Yu Darvish vs Javier Assad on the road and we lost by one run. It's ultimately fine. No, I will not consider further context.
  16. squally1313
    Slash fifth starter
  17. squally1313
    Well probably lose, it’s a bad loss, etc. butttt…it would be really amazing to make a comeback off Mr. $100m-has already blown multiple games-reliever edit: leaving this here as a sign of my stupidity, obviously ignore
  18. squally1313
    Well at least it was a cool home run
  19. squally1313
    Neris is legit. Almonte and cuas have been weird relievers to seek out. I don’t really know how you fill all these innings when you basically have 3.5 starters and can only carry 8 relievers and you’re constantly playing in 37 degree rain.
  20. squally1313
    Well. I should probably just ignore this and go to bed.
  21. squally1313
    Am I missing something or are we still starting drew smyly tomorrow
  22. squally1313
    Through the first quarter south Carolina 20 caitlin Clark 18
  23. squally1313
    Can this be a combo cubs/Iowa and South Carolina game thread?
  24. squally1313
    PCA pulled from the Iowa game
  25. squally1313
    Really would prefer to avoid a rain delay situation where we end up needing 6-7 innings from the pen
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