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I'll also take the Reds just being the Reds and handing it to us.
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Rizz needs to go on a tear to get to his 31 home runs, might as well get one here.
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Started off a decent AB and quickly devolved into a disaster. Oh well, we're fine.
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He was better against righties the past two years, but he was still really good against lefties, too. I’ve got no problem with the lineup. Murphy’s probably going to be leadoff a lot and since this is his first game, Joe just threw him there. Everyone complained about Rizzo batting there since nobody was on base for him so that eliminates him and Javy. You’re not putting Heyward there. Almora, Contreras and Happ have all been varying degrees of crap and Bote has done nothing since the slam. So you’re left with Zobrist. Swapping them would be fine or even moving Zo up and moving the other three down a spot but then you’re just shuffling the same four. I know it doesn't ultimately matter over a one game sample. It's just concerning about the thought process that leads to these decisions. Maddon comes out today and says the reason Murphy is leading off is so he can get the most ABs possible before replacing him for defensive purposes, which raises two major issues. One, we have a DH spot available, and two, that just means that he's going to get pulled before he might be in an advantageous spot of facing a righty reliever. Him getting three PAs against Liriano and then getting pulled is the worst way to use him.
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He was better against righties the past two years, but he was still really good against lefties, too. Yeah but so is Almora, and Zobrist, and Baez. Almora batting lead off yesterday and sixth today defies all logic.
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Anytime you can give the guy with a .622 OPS against lefties the most PAs in a game against a lefty starter, you have to do it.
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Since August 1, the Cardinals have gone 16-4. So sure, if you want to extrapolate that out and say the Cardinals will play .800 ball the rest of the year, it'll be tough for us to get the 97 wins we would need to win the division. We'd have to go 26-12, by the way, which is entirely possible. But it absolutely won't be necessary. Yeah this is likely at the end of our bad run and the cardinals good run. I still have scars from 2004 though when the Astros played like .900 ball the last month of the season and never eased up while we plodded along and finished several games back. 28-7 over their last 35, so pretty close.
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Since August 1, the Cardinals have gone 16-4. So sure, if you want to extrapolate that out and say the Cardinals will play .800 ball the rest of the year, it'll be tough for us to get the 97 wins we would need to win the division. We'd have to go 26-12, by the way, which is entirely possible. But it absolutely won't be necessary.
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homophobe (Daniel Murphy), incoming (to the Cubs)
squally1313 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I don't think he should start against lefties. Against righties, deal with the diminished defense. It's definitely a square peg/round hole situation in terms of where he fits in. But it's a good problem to have, and didn't cost us anything to get there. -
Let's try this again, out of mostly boredom: vs L Almora Zobrist Baez Contreras Rizzo Russell Bote Heyward vs R Murphy Zobrist Rizzo Baez Schwarber Happ Contreras Heyward/Bote (depending on whether you want your infield defense or your outfield defense to be miserable)
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homophobe (Daniel Murphy), incoming (to the Cubs)
squally1313 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Yeah everyone, including the Cubs, is aware of how bad defensively he is. He's also been the 12th best hitter in baseball over the last three seasons. I know he got off to an atrocious start, but he's only 33, and has been the 30th best hitter in baseball in the second half this year. Everything else (including him being an horsefeathers) aside, this is an elite bat, and I highly doubt their plan is just to use him as an improved LaStella. -
homophobe (Daniel Murphy), incoming (to the Cubs)
squally1313 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
This is probably a meatball take, but I'll take Bote over Murphy at third base if you factor in defense. To the extent Russell is/was still a full time starter, just platoon him with Murphy going forward, and don't change much else. -
Our lineup usually looks so much better with the DH in there (shocking, I know), and then Joe decides to go and ruin it by putting Almora against a righty and the corpse of good Jason Heyward.
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I'm sure this is getting off topic, but did I miss something Fukudome went through? The headbands and a couple shirts were spectacularly inappropriate, but I don't recall hearing about anything that directly affected him. thats not enough? No I was just saying the n-word like, in general. I wasn't talking about you, the only African American here, specifically.
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This is the thread where we talk about how awesome Kris Bryant is
squally1313 replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Different body part but did Zobrist have any sort of surgery on his wrist in the offseason. He was dealing with that for most of last year and I think I remember hearing he just needed rest to let it heal. This could obviously be worse than that but sometimes rest is the only thing that helps. Pessimistically, I've kinda accepted at this point that we aren't going to see full strength KB in 2018. Optimistically, he had decent numbers in his 10 July games, and it sounds like there wasn't some flareup when he stopped playing, he was just sore and knew he wasn't 100%, so it's hard to see him coming back as anything less than that. Power might be sapped, but there's still plenty of value there. -
It's a lazy pick, but Rene Rivera had a decent start to the year, got hurt, and according to Fangraphs should be starting rehab assignments in the minors pretty soon for the Angels. Obviously they aren't going anywhere, so might be worth a phone call. Edit: Just saw he's playing for the Angels tonight, so I guess he's healthy.
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It'd be nice to see the Cubs make a move for a veteran catcher they can trust. It's clear they don't think much of Caratini (nor has he done much this year), and Gimenez basically talked his way off the team. But it's pretty clear Contreras has been struggling for a while now, and the simplest explanation is that he just needs a break. He's going to surpass last year's PAs by the end of weekend, and he's only 2 PAs behind Posey (who has played a lot of first base) for most PAs for catchers. Obviously his arm is valuable back there, but his framing is suspect, and if he's not producing at the plate we're not losing much by giving him more rest down the stretch.
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Ride Cishek.
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Brewers board is going nuts over the pitching decisions (day off Monday, day off tomorrow, Hader has pitched 5 innings this month). They aren't wrong, but this inning has been basically 100% on your terrible defense.
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Ctrl+T brewerfan.net
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Go for the kill shot Bote Edit: Rizzo
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Russell?!?!