squally1313
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If you want to say this 9 game road trip is the most important trip of the year (so far)...sure, you're probably right. Milwaukee, St. Louis, makes sense. If you want to say this particular game, against a non-division team, in July, where we've gone 7-3 in our last 10, is the most important game of the year...no, you're 100% wrong.
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Ah. So it's the biggest game of the year in the sense that every game is the biggest game of the year.
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He's clearly going to continue playing baseball for the Cubs. I know you've gotten to the point of just hating the team and hoping they are bad, but if he's going to play, I'd rather him play well and still have the fans dislike him, than play poorly but pull an Almora and inexplicably become some gritty fan favorite.
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Which one is has been bigger? If we lose this we haven't won a road series since Mid-May and St Louis could tie us on the loss side. We would be facing a sweep that would push SF 3 games over .500 and take away a potential trade partner who has 3 BP guys we could use. Starting 0-2 on a 9 game trip (8 before the deadline) and falling to 18-29 on the road could set us up to not add big or potentially sell if the rest of the trip is bad and slip to 3rd. This is 100% the biggest game of the year. knock off Mad-Bum, build on Yu's last two starts and then you get a 4.70 ERA guy vs Lester with a chance to snap the drought on the road and have some momentum going into Miller Park. Any game against Milwaukee or St. Louis, for starters. I understand that losing this game would hit all these weird panic triggers for you, but us winning tonight isn't going to magically turn SF into a seller, much less a seller to us, 1-1 vs 0-2 to start a roadtrip doesn't really change anything, and I'm not sure why 19-28 is any better than 18-29.
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I mean, it is definitely not the biggest game of the year.
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Well, I was maybe wrong about this as it his horrendous on field decision-making in general wasn't a consideration as it should have been. Cubs sportsball fans seem to have let up their principled enabling of Russell as of late. Weird. "It's worked out well" definitely isn't the right phrase, but his very obvious mistakes on the field have gone a long way into turning the meatheads' opinion against him, whereas his metrics have been relatively satisfactory so far. Since he came back on 5/8, he's been the 5th most valuable offensive player on the team, over guys like Schwarber and Heyward (in less PAs). 0.8 WAR in 54 games/167 PAs is about a 2.5 pace. Rather it be this way than him going on some fan-endearing Almora type run.
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KB >>>
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Edwards down, maybe Wick up? His season has been handled wonderfully so far.
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I definitely wasn't following the team back then (on account of being born two months before the trade), but based on the two links below, he was getting either internal or media criticism about being too heavy and it having an adverse impact on his knees. There's a quote in there about just requesting to be traded, not necessarily to Boston. http://archive.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/06/19/close_up_with_the_ultimate_closer/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070105194455/http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Lee_Smith_1957
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So incredibly dumb
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How many 8-1 outs have there been in the history of baseball
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(whispers very, very quietly) Russell has the same fWAR as Schwarber (runs away)
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The Padres seem like a fun team to be a fan of
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At least this guy had pretty standard splits last year (neutral this year). Still pretty absurd. Robel in left should be...unpredictable.
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Days without a Rizzo grand dong: ZERO
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Yeah, another one that totally flipped from last year. I assume it's just randomness, but still very odd/frustrating.
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Well, top half at least.
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The like 5% of lineups mattering they’re horsefeathering up tremendously. Yeah, for me when I say 'lineups don't matter', I mean it in a sense of...there's no such thing as a prototypical lead off man, or you don't need your slowest, biggest power hitter batting fourth. To whatever degree it does matter, it's that your best players should be hitting more times than your not good players. Which is decidedly not the case here.
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LOL at both those calls from the Edmonds strikeout, and then Zambrano still being in the 8th inning of a game we were losing 5-3. Different game.
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Not sure how to find this and too lazy to do the work, but I'd guess the average runs scored in the playoffs is lower than in the regular season.
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Yeah this feels like one of those 'down 6-0 after 2' Lester starts. If he can get through the lineup the first time, we should be fine.
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Erick Lauer vs RHB: .258/.308/.402 .302 wOBA Erick Lauer vs LHB: .279/.340/.372 .311 wOBA 2018: .366 wOBA vs LHB, .341 wOBA vs RHB Get your horsefeathers together Joe
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He had 1000 PA as roughly a league average hitter prior to this season. I know a lot of people are predisposed to dislike Almora because he swings too much and therefore doesn't walk or hit for a ton of power, but he was a perfectly fine role player for multiple years until his struggles this year. That could be a blip and it could be him finally getting figured out for good, but scoffing at the idea that he's ever been useful is silly. It's at least party just SSS noise, but his collapse against LHP this year is really mystifying. Before that, my general frustration was how he was used (too high in the order, against too many RHPs) and how he was perceived by Cubs fans in general (lead off hitter, gold glove center fielder). A career 103 wRC+ against LHP with above average defense has a spot on any roster. Now I don't really know what you do with him besides send him to wherever Schwarber went before the WS to have him see endless LHP.
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Have you SEEN all the times his helmet has fallen off running the bases?