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  1. squally1313
    Does this put Corey Crawford on trade watch? Or...retirement watch?
  2. squally1313
    I just hope they aren't rushing him back after the Hamels injury. Me too. I was going to write the same thing. I prefer he come back after the All-Star break. Eh, I trust Hendricks isn't going to do anything to make this worse. With the off day Friday, he's going to have like 10 days off before his next start.
  3. squally1313
    Better pitcher than Chris Sale, obviously
  4. squally1313
    Everyone get their Starlin phew gif ready....
  5. squally1313
    Give him the hook!
  6. squally1313
    He hasn't pitched for the Braves in like 7 years There are 2 position players in this game that were on the Braves the last time Kimbrel pitched for them, and one of them is Jason Heyward to be fair, they just pinch hit the other one
  7. squally1313
    Kimbrel should throw the first pitch behind Flowers, just for fun. Really set the tone.
  8. squally1313
    You have your hands full defending his .6 war, 52nd of war ranking, 12th on the cub and 7th among cub position players. Oh, and his defensive war of - 3.6. I’ll let you chew on that for a while. I could care less about yet another meaningless solo homer by one of the most overrated players in baseball. I'm fairly impressed how you have that war/ranking/position/defensive war thing so memorized. But how is a solo homerun meaningless in a game you lead 9-7? He's obviously pissed no one got on in front of him.
  9. squally1313
    You have your hands full defending his .6 war, 52nd of war ranking, 12th on the cub and 7th among cub position players. Oh, and his defensive war of - 3.6. I’ll let you chew on that for a while. I could care less about yet another meaningless solo homer by one of the most overrated players in baseball. Clouding the issue with stat overload, nerd. Go check out his dong today.
  10. squally1313
    Did he not see all the defenders on the right side?
  11. squally1313
    Oh shoot, he pulled another ball in the air just now. What about all the defenders over there???
  12. squally1313
    [bbvideo=560,315] [/bbvideo]One or a handful of at bats doesn’t change anything. His overall approach is to pull everything and to lift everything including when runners are in scoring position or when the pitch is outside or when there are eight guys right of second Schwarber: 40.9% Pull %, 41.8% fly ball %, 6.6% infield fly ball %, 48.4% total fly ball % Rizzo: 43.9% Pull %, 35.8% fly ball %, 9.8% infield fly ball %, 45.6% total fly ball % Before you move the goal posts to strike out rate, I assume you want to trash Rizzo's batted ball profile too?
  13. squally1313
    I like how he has to anecdotally point to one game he watched 'the other day', as if other than that one inning, the Cubs purposely try to not get hits. As opposed to, you know, the sheer statistical improbability of stringing five or six hits in a row.
  14. squally1313
    I know I'm pretty damn bleak on this team, but Baez and Contreras are two pretty gigantic "other than's." Out of the rest of them named, it seems like a lot of that is just baseball being baseball; most prospects are simply not going to amount to much than being Just Guys. It's frustrating for sure that either Russell or Schwarber, as highly touted as they were, haven't amounted to more, but 2 all stars out of 7 guys is pretty damn good. Giving credit where credit is due: this. "lol man it sucks all we did we develop two guys who compete to be the best C and SS/2B in the game" Also, "since 2016" conveniently leaves out trading for Rizzo after he had a .523 OPS in 150 MLB PAs, and then a .742 OPS in his first full season for the Cubs, and then Hendricks too. It's disappointing that we haven't too much come out of the system since 2016, but that's a product of having late draft picks, trading away talent for immediate help, etc.
  15. squally1313
    Schwarber, Bryant, Rizzo, Baez, Heyward, garbage catcher, garbage right fielder, garbage second baseman It's a shame Bote has gotten BABIPed to death this month...he needs to be starting every day with this current roster.
  16. squally1313
    I know there's less than no point in engaging here...I just really love that video.
  17. squally1313
    He doesn’t defeat the shift because he has no interest in doing so which fits in with the rest of the launch angle club. In Kyle’s case, he thinks 2b is the foul line. [bbvideo=560,315] [/bbvideo]
  18. squally1313
    I'd throw Bote onto the first mix too. From what I remember reading a couple years ago, aging curves have kinda shifted to the left in the last 5-10 years...more and more, players are coming up as pretty fully formed, and are peaking really early into their MLB career as opposed to their late 20s, as had typically been the belief.
  19. squally1313
    I'm on team 'there's no such thing as bad hitting', but you may be on to something considering the best player in our line up hasn't batted in the top 3 once this year, which has probably led to a lot of garbage ABs with him in a scoring position. Then again, if you change the metric to hitting with guys on base, we have the 5th highest wRC and the best OBP in the league. Given that, I can't really see how it's anything but luck. Unless this is totally line up driven (KB and Rizzo walk a ton, so Baez and Contreras come up with a guy on, but not in scoring position, then by the time people get to scoring position, you're left with the Almoras of the world). But you would think that would be a league wide issue, not just a Cubs thing.
  20. squally1313
    Schwarber walk, Almora 6-4-3 (first pitch), KB strike out (just to let Cubs twitter go wild)
  21. squally1313
    Contreras to somewhere in the top 3 of the lineup, please.
  22. squally1313
    They're correct takes, just look at the splits He has a 1.036 OPS with men on base. .938 OPS with 2 outs and RISP .923 OPS in 1-run games .915 in 2 or less run games .943 in 3 or less run games .800 in 4 or more run games .947 when winning .905 when tied .891 when trailing
  23. squally1313
    Excited for the best people on here to throw out that KB home run in any future argument about how much he sucks.
  24. squally1313
    Yes, with a runner on first and no outs in the FIRST horsefeathering INNING, let's definitely have Kris "I won an MVP" Bryant modify his approach to, best case scenario, see Almora struggle to go from first to third.
  25. squally1313
    We got a very cut rate version of Hammer for essentially nothing. Are we better now than we were before? Sure. I'd put Murphy and still Keith ahead of him, but yeah, he's instantly our third best Dman. He played third pairing most of the time last year, but Carolina had a really solid top 4, so it's not necessarily an indictment. But this is a guy who absolutely tops out as a second pairing guy. We definitely need second pairing guys. But this is picking up Howie Kendrick, not Rendon.
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