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Speaking of great music choices by the white sox, how about Clevinger coming out to Golddigger after everything that went on this offseason. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before we end up with something happening on our team (looking at you Stroman, and maybe Hayden), but nice to not have had something like this for a little while.
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The As pitcher is Mason Miller. Flashy prospect making his debut after like 30 total innings in the minors. Went out in AAA last week and dominated...hit triple digits, 11 Ks in 5 innings, think it was hitless with maybe one walk. I would say he's going to be pretty nervous, but assume his last start had about 3x the amount of people in attendance that this one will.
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Was a frustrating beginning to the game, but the silver lining of not coming through earlier was that they basically had to use the bullpen as if it were a winnable game. Between the 5 pitchers last night, and the 9 innings combined over the last two games (plus I assume they've been overworked all year given their record), they should be pretty thin going into the game today where their starter shouldn't be expected to go deep if we stay patient on him. He might make some of our dudes look stupid (and some of our dudes might make themselves look stupid due to their names being Eric Hosmer, Tucker Barnhart, etc) but get out of here with the sweep and Wrigley should be loud this weekend.
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Has solid start changed your expectations for 2023 Cubs?
squally1313 replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Yeah, I think a poor start would have put Stroman, Belli, Happ, Gomes, etc on the block and take away any urgency to aggressively promote the talent in the minors. Now they can't really get away with that route, as much as ownership might like to. I still don't see a lot of top end talent and it's really hard to thread the needle of being a Good Team by throwing a barrage of 2-3 win players at the wall. But maybe you convince a couple teams to take a volume approach to our crowded farm system and trade us some immediate talent. Cardinals slow start, Woodruff already on the shelf for months...there's a path there. -
Thanks for this. Quick clarification question, can you define what they mean by 'Behind 1B'? That's where the majority of his chances are coming from, and I'm wondering if it's referring to (now presumably illegal) shifts against LHH where he would line up in shallow right.
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Probably figured it out from the above, but the Ducks can't fall out of the top 3.
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Yeah, and, to explicitly lay it out, the DH greatly decreases the number of in game substitutions a good team should be making to their lineup. Neither Gomes nor Barnhart are good enough to be a DH. Put them in whatever sort of platoon works best to keep them both fresh and tell them both to expect to catch the full game every night. The option to put Morel on the basepaths, his ability to cover multiple positions in case of an injury, etc far outweigh the chance that your catcher comes up in a big spot and you don't PH because you're scared of an injury to your backup catcher in whatever is left of the game.
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Therein lies the problem with the Hosmers and Mancinis and Rioses of the world. You bring them in on cheap, but real MLB contracts, they give you close to what you expected from them based on past performance/dollars paid, ie generally average MLB production, and suddenly you're in a spot where Wisdom, Morel, Mervis, all kinda deserve ABs but there's only really a technical opening at one spot because first and DH and being adequately filled. That being said, you can't really make any argument that this team is better with Torrens in the last bench spot instead of Morel, given the latter's flexibility and speed.
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Our new overlord stepping right into the middle of our (less so now but still) sacred game thread routine to pump off a long winning streak is really going to throw off the playoff plan.
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Why aren’t you walking that guy regardless?
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You get used to these stats when Fred was doing them every day, and then they go away and the fact that the Cubs and Dodgers have played almost two THOUSAND games against each other is just completely shocking.
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2 bleacher tickets still available, though if we're being totally honest most of the reason they were available yesterday was because Stubhub wasn't letting me sell them and it wasn't worth the hassle to figure out another solution, so if they fixed that glitch I might just go that route. Would rather give them away to someone here.
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Anyone have any interest in two bleacher tickets for tomorrow's game? Weather looks pretty perfect but going to go play golf instead. Send me a message if you're interested....they're going for pretty cheap on Stubhub right now so happy to give them away free of charge to someone here instead, just make a donation or remember me when you have an extra World Series ticket down the road.
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4/5 Cubs (Stro) @ Reds (Greene) 11:35 AM CT
squally1313 replied to Bertz's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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Yeah sure, totally fair. Just saying that the other options that are more or less on par financially are pretty much all in the same boat in terms of actual ability, even if they don't invoke such...frustration as someone so aggressively mediocre as Hosmer.
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Zips projections: Solano: .274/.326/.381 Hosmer: .273/.329/.409 Do we need another guy who can play the infield with the rest of the roster? He hasn't played in the outfield in 10 years.
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Can you name specifics? Santana put up a 102 wRC+ after two years of being a below average hitter and signed for 8x the money. Jesus Aguilar put up a .660 OPS last year in over 500 PAs. Franchy Cordero hasn't been an above average hitter since 2019. Are you talking Brandon Belt? $9m isn't 'not much more money' than $720k and kinda ruins any future Mervis has.
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Not to reduce this solid article too much here, but.... "someone they were able to add for a league-minimum salary". That's kinda the whole point right? Feel like he's been lumped in with the Bellinger and Mancini deals when we are paying Hosmer a fraction of the money we're spending on those guys. The difference between any realistic Mervis projection and a very slightly above replacement level Hosmer over a few weeks stretch is essentially splitting hairs. If we're still having this conversation in the middle of May (which is contingent on Mervis continuing to mash), sure. Otherwise, we've got much bigger problems here.
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4/4 Cubs (Wesneski) @ Reds (Cessa) 5:40 PM CT
squally1313 replied to Bertz's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Late afternoon rain storm going into the game? -
I think Ross is a bad manager, and especially bad at bullpen management, though I think that's probably something that most fans would claim of their own managers and the grass isn't always greener. Having said that, I've been trying to figure out how to articulate my issue with all the bullpen optimism/positivity that we've had around here the last couple years. I'll preface by saying I don't really have a better option, so this is really just me complaining, but it feels like the last few springs we've looked at a list of a dozen potential options, and then over the course of the season two or three of them turn into pretty effective dudes, and everyone calls it another successful bullpen build. And then they get traded (for reasons I'll explain here shortly), or hurt, because pitchers break, and we start the process over again the next year. But everyone kinda ignores the 3-4 months it takes of just throwing these guys at the wall to see what sticks, and having to live with the results of the dudes that don't pan out. And so we blow a bunch of games early on and end up in a spot where we're sellers at the deadline, and the couple guys that are actually dudes go elsewhere. It's just...a frustrating cycle. And again, I don't know a better approach besides stumbling on a Hader/Williams combo somehow, minus the whole white supremacy thing.
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Just an all around banner performance from Ross. Feels like the team needs to perform a little better to actually put his job at risk, but he’s got to go. Front office put an end to 2016 nostalgia when they dumped all the actual good players from that team.
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Well I guess starting game thread 4 is better than starting game thread 3. Rough weekend, but hopefully the Reds and their made up players are the cure to what ails us. Although this dude, of course, last pitched on 9/30 where he went 5 1/3, 2 hit, 3 K, shut out ball against (you guessed it!) our Chicago Cubs, so who knows. Pretty pissed Succession is already off the board, and for a Sunday game with minimal activity here anyways. Though I'm guessing we'll need to start reusing ideas pretty soon here. I never watched WKRP in Cincinnati but I have spent my fair share of time in southern Ohio, amongst the people who live there, and thus I think this show is appropriate thematically: Let's go win a series.
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Stro (with some help from the blessed pitch clock) is cruising.
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Was it?
