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Just watched the cubs sweep in 18 degree weather with Assad and Luke little starting the last two games, four in a row total, like 6 of our hitters are on fire, time to go scroll through the game thread and read all the posts talking about how awesome we are.
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Going to assume it’s one of those things that’s more common than you think, you just notice it more because of how much you disproportionately watch the cubs. And then probably be proven wrong when someone actually does the research.
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The thing I have to remember is 'the wind not blowing in' =/= 'the wind howling out'. I found myself running those hypotheticals of an afternoon in July with 4 basket shots on 86 MPH pop ups, but those days are basically as common/uncommon as what Imanaga pitched in yesterday. Like Tim said, take the swings and misses, accept that there will be some bombs, hope he can get lucky on the sequencing side (strikeouts will help there).
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I will always hold a place for Baez in the back of my mind A. because he is awesome, and B. because I'm 100% sure that whatever he has left would be maximized getting back in a Cubs uniform, and therefore it's a unique value prop to us. Unfortunately that contract makes it pretty impossible for a few more years, which are going to sap whatever he's got left. Whatever, good for him for getting his bag.
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I probably got a little carried away in my Morel bashing (fell in love with Chapman a little, had a big problem with people being like 'well he's super athletic, so he just need a couple weeks at third and voila'), but rest assured I would have been a little less pessimistic if you would have told me he suddenly strikes out less than Madrigal. But also more pessimistic if you would have told me he can't catch line drives. The beauty of a 5 game sample!
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Little shake up here: Nico (2B) Seiya (RF) Cody (CF) Morel (DH) Dansby (SS) Happ (LF) Cooper (1B) Madrigal (3B) Amaya (C) Assman on the mound. Must like the Hoerner matchup against Freeland or just trying to jumpstart him a little bit. Cooper with the start against the lefty.
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This might be overly cynical, but given that they were probably expecting low attendance for these games either way, they opted for a night game to maximize the after work crowd in all the (heated) suites, all inclusive areas, etc...ie, the most expensive seats in the building.
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Aware that I'm taking both sides of the debate here, but in the interest of fairness, Imanaga recorded zero ground ball outs today (nor did Smyly, interestingly enough). Yeah, Morel still managed to find a way to pick up an error, but I think it's generally fine to give him the start at third for Shota and probably Taillon for the time being. I don't think you're losing much offensively between Madrigal and Tauchman in the current iteration of the roster, but I also think there's some potential delayed value in at least keeping the Morel-at-third door open a crack in the case of like...Canario or Caissie forcing their way into a major league lineup later on this year.
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Throw strikes, let KB get a basket shot, don't burn any key pen guys, don't get hurt.
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He's hit the ball really hard and has a 20% walk rate so far this year. Obviously expectations are raised if he's going to max out defensively as a first baseman. But everything beneath the hood still looks good.
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Guys. Come on guys.
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lolllllllllllllllllll
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Bad Cody
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Murakami after the 2025 season to solve our third base issue.
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It's a bad approach against this guy. He doesn't give up HRs normally, much less on a day like today. Hit the ball hard on the ground. If the BABIP gods get you that way, so be it. Going for the fences against a sinkerball pitcher on a day like today is dumb.
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I don't care about what hand these guys are. Happ and Belli are already in the line up, that's fine for guys hitting on the left side against RHP. Tauchman is in the lineup because we currently have, ignoring the catchers, 7 good hitters and then 3-4 mediocre options. The fact that Tauchman hits lefty doesn't make him a substantially better hitter than Madrigal or Wisdom in a couple weeks. Morel should be in the lineup, especially if he's seeing the ball this well (only 1 K so far this year is really encouraging). But he's a DH at this point in time.
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As mentioned earlier, Hudson is terrible. Please start hitting accordingly.
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We're currently effectively running Mike Tauchman out there as our every day DH, you could absolutely just give that line up spot to Wisdom/Madrigal and take Morel's glove away from him and not lose pretty much anything offensively.
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That is a nasty split. You can see it fall off the table. And man, the emotion already. Could be a fan favorite quickly here.
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Unreal how often the ball has found Morel there
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Pretty insane
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108.8 off the bat from Seiya. Dakota Hudson sucks out loud but real encouraging.
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Just A Guy Ian Happ improves his OBP to .533 to start the year.
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Blackmon made some pretty loud contact, but locked down after that. Though I'm sure for other reasons you'd prefer another 20-30 degrees on the thermometer, you can't really ask for an easier debut start.
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