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Since June 1st, PCA is: Second in HRs Third in SBs First in average (by 27 points) First in OBP (by 47 points) First in slugging First in wOBA (by 50 points) First in wRC (by 35 points) Sixth in overall baserunning First in defensive value added Just a historic level complete and total domination of all facets of the game.
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Overrated, overpaid
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Out of curiosity, would all five actual HRs have gone out at wrigley?
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Also coming up quickly on Shohei’s combined fWAR number, which seemed impossible like a month ago
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.400 wOBA for the best defensive player in baseball
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Because of, in spite of, tomato tomato
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Chibear says the cubs offense is napping and they put up 9 runs in 7 innings chibear calls out Suzuki and he hits a bomb chibear - talk about how bad our pitching is
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Yeah that’s lowest in baseball too. Bregman, Suzuki and Busch are all in the top 20 for lowest swing percentage (out of 150 qualified). No cubs in the top 30 for highest.
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Good call
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TIL this season has been going on for 17 months
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Do we have any proof that any of these top prospects play corner outfield well next year? Or the year after that?
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But what if we did something, like, say, a trade, to get more advantageous pitching matchups
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We just beat the second best team in a three game series against their best pitchers. What, they’ll try harder or something? Mis is going to throw 106?
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It’s baseball. 9 innings in October, just like 9 innings in June. also, that’s bad logic, no? The current pitchers are not good enough to do anything in October, in your opinion, and so therefore we shouldn’t replace those guys with better pitchers?
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You’ve never really elaborated on what this means though. We won a three game series in Milwaukee against their top three pitchers like 2 weeks ago with basically bullpen games and AAA guys. Is that not enough for a short playoff series? or is the bar just ‘The Dodgers’ and if so should 29 teams hold or try to sell off to try again next year.
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Pete Outdoing His Best Devin Hester Impression
squally1313 replied to We Got The Whole 9's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Which is ironic because a little over a year ago we were probably looking at Willie 'Mays' Hayes -
It's not "missing the barrel" it's "Brewers voodoo magic" which is obviously definitely a thing.
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Pete Outdoing His Best Devin Hester Impression
squally1313 replied to We Got The Whole 9's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
He's kinda just mimicking the beginning of Andruw Jones' career right? It's a different era so Pete gets more credit for his offense (in his age 24 season he's putting up a .910 OPS which is good for a 150 wRC, in Jones' age 23 season he put up a .907 OPS good for a 127 wRC), but also Jones got more credit for his defense. I haven't really found anyone who's a better comparison but I think that's pretty close when you factor in how few players get to this level of play. -
In the current rotation, Javier Assad is the youngest pitcher. He turns 29 this month. Taillon is 34 and on an expiring deal, Shota is 32 and on an expiring deal, Boyd is 35 and on an expiring deal. Horton and Brown are young-ish, but probably won't be seen this year. Cabrera is 28 with 2 years left. We have two current relievers under 30. They are both 29, and also bad. Of the injured relievers currently on the 40 man, Palencia is 26, Hodge is 25. The other 6 are at least 28. If this is a rebuilding pitching staff, it would be a very bad version of one. What it is is a cheaply made pitching staff designed to be just good enough to be carried by the offense and defense, and then it was completely wrecked by injuries.
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Any idea on when this is supposed to start?
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I'm very aware I'm bypassing nuance and maybe rationality here, but trading Kane Kepley for Casey Mize or whatever instead of just trading some combination of Matt Shaw/Moises Ballesteros for Tarik horsefeathers Skubal seems very dumb, or at least very not fun. 'Well yeah, the guy we got isn't elite, but have you thought about we might have a corner outfield vacancy next year and how we may need to put an infielder there'
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The thing about all these injured pitchers maybe or maybe not coming back is that this pitching staff wasn't good to begin with. We were like 20th in the preseaon projections and about the only thing that has come out better than scheduled is Ben Brown, who almost certainly won't be stretched out until maybe October. This offense is far, far too good for me to have to watch Shota shrug and get a ball thrown from the umpire after giving up his third home run in the second inning of game 2 so that Jefferson Rojas, as cool as he is, can be Dansby/Nico injury insurance in Iowa for the next 2 years.
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Cubs now 4 clear of every team in baseball except the Dodgers for offensive fWAR, second in baseball in wOBA and wRC. 8th in slugging, 7th in home runs, 2nd in OBP. Get some pitching.
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Most of that section has access to the 1914 Club where it's dark and the AC is pumping and you can drink free beers while watching the blowout on TV. I was actually in that section yesterday, much closer game and wasn't middle of the afternoon, still was down there every 20 minutes or so to cool off.
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It is miserably hot outside.
