squally1313
-
Posts
11,309 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
28
Content Type
Profiles
Joomla Posts 1
Chicago Cubs Videos
Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking
News
2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
Guides & Resources
2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
The Chicago Cubs Players Project
2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker
2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses
Blogs
Events
Forums
Store
Gallery
Everything posted by squally1313
-
8/1 Cubs (Hamels) @ Pirates (Kingham) 6:05 WGN
squally1313 replied to Liam Neeson's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I really hope there's an extra gear he didn't bother trying to find so far this year. His last few starts have been...rough. -
Maybe. But I don't blame them for going this route when I don't think they had a lot to offer other teams in trades without getting into MLB depth. You have 6 starters and like 9 bullpen arms if you include Smyly. Find 12 capable pitchers out of those 15. The problem is you have to give innings to bad ones to find out which ones are hot, so you don’t end up ahead. If this is the price for a WS followed by some pitching bets blowing up, so be it. But it sucks today. We've already given about 100 innings to Rosario/Duensing/Butler/Farrell/Hancock, all of which are pretty objectively bad. If one of these new guys shows he can be reliable in October, awesome. If not, well, we probably still need people to throw those innings anyways to keep our actual good relievers fresh/healthy, and we basically gave up nothing to get them.
-
Thanks everyone for the Ziegler explanations. Ground ball rate is very attractive, but he's getting hit hard this year. Either way, I woke up looking forward to a Bryce Harper trade, and now we're on like hour 2 of the Brad horsefeathering Ziegler watch. Someone needs to do something cool here.
-
Can someone tell me why we'd want Brad Ziegler and his 4.58 FIP?
-
Per FG's 2018 prospect ranks, the Rays #17, #27, and unranked prospect. But yeah sure, probably close to getting Archer.
-
Tommy Pham to...Tampa??? What the horsefeathers. Delayed revenge for talking horsefeathers about the FO I guess.
-
After the last few days, I'd be ok totally overpaying for Doolittle. For a lot of reasons.
-
You'd drop Rosario. 100%.
-
Per FG, Brewers are projected for 88 wins, and the Diamondbacks are at 86 for the two wildcard spots. Nationals at 52-53 currently would have to go 34-23, or play at a .596 clip the rest of the year. And that's ignoring the Braves, Cardinals, Pirates, and Rockies. The FG projections still really like the Nationals, having them play out the year at a .579 pace, but it's an uphill climb.
-
David Bote is a Golden God and Deserves His Own Thread
squally1313 replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I saw on Twitter he's using David Bowie, which is, no offense 1000x cooler. -
Cubs Acquire Cole Hamels for Eddie Butler, Rollie Lacy & PTBNL
squally1313 replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
CAVEAT: I know this probably isn't a real thing. But. Hamels strikes me as the kinda guy who has been more or less playing out the string down in Texas. They haven't been in contention in forever, he got his big contract, etc. Bring him to a playoff team, give him a shot at cracking an October rotation one more time in his career...maybe you'll start to see a little more out of him. -
It's quite possible after this game that David Bote will have accumulated more WAR than any of our starters. 326/421/522. This feels like one of those random Cardinals call ups and I horsefeathering love it.
-
"If Almora would have been batting last like all you NERDS wanted, this never would have happened"
-
No. He's like our 12th best hitter against righties. And apparently he hasn't been very 'comfortable' there all month. WHO GIVES A horsefeathers DONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGS
-
You can cheer for a player and be happy about the positive results they produce without having it change your opinion of the player and how good they are. Albert Almora sucks against righties. His basic numbers have almost always, April-June 2018 aside, sucked against righties, and his peripherals have always sucked against them. If he plays and performs well, awesome. But we shouldn't ever plan for it. Zobrist raking against righties doesn't help. Move Heyward to center.
-
864 OPS against lefties in July in how many PA's? And why use arbitrary data sets (calendar months)? Listen, I'm not arguing that Almora is great or even very good, but I'm tired of the "his good stats don't count because BABIP" refrain. I absolutely think he's going to end up with pedestrian numbers by season's end, but I don't discredit what he's done to this point But literally no one is doing that. None of us like, feel bad for the success he had early in the season. It was a fun added bonus compared to expectations and (most likely) skill level, because baseball has a lot of randomness and these things happen. He'll still get credit for his first half at the end of the year. But pretty much everything says he won't be that good going forward, and we've already seen it this month, and as such there is no reason to continue batting him 2nd against righties, and when everyone is healthy he really shouldn't be playing against them at all.
-
He has a 506 OPS against righties in July. He's been bad in general in July 864 OPS against lefties in July
-
Jesus christ, this again. Saying that the numbers predict a drop-off and that he has outproduced his peripherals can both be true He has a 506 OPS against righties in July.
-
To begin with, the .381 BABIP on 50% GBs and ~5% BB rate and ~20% K rate. All of which is true, and yet, he has still produced Jesus christ, this again.
-
He hit an oppo Dong the other night Yeah, but I meant the majority of his at-bats. Thus, the "pretty much" part. 262/351/385 in July. Certainly not June (327/364/510), but still an improvement over the lat couple years.
-
Let's continue punting games with our pitching choices and then throw out our most valuable player with a bum knee to risk a serious injury.
-
And this is one of the reasons you got someone like Chavez. Someone who can effectively bridge the gap from a high leverage situation early in the game to the late inning guys. This isn't hard.
-
Justin Wilson hasn't pitched since Saturday, if you really insisted on a lefty.
-
I was still thinking that after the second bobble. Gary Sanchez part 2.
-
lol ok