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There's a decent chance we end this game with two pitchers in the lineup. I wonder how often that's happened.
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And, again, this ain’t a playoff series where you are facing some of the best starters in the game. This is like against the guys who are left off the playoff roster. The guy with the 2.71 ERA, the guy with the 0.55 ERA, or the guy with the 1.22 ERA? Which of those guys today would be left off the playoff roster?
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Oh cool it's Wacky Joe
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Here comes strike three in the other batters box
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I'm fairly sure our bench is empty. Just wait for the Lester PH in the 9th. Pretty sure Rizzo wanted to get tossed there...surprised Maddon didn't stay out there until he did.
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One of Maddon's best qualities is managing players for a seven month season, but with this obviously being a Contreras day off after the night game/having to deal with Chatwood and him giving KB this 'mini break', think we're working with a pretty short bench today. Given our odds to make the postseason, I get it, but I'm pretty sure Lester is our third PH off the bench today.
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thats dumb though? what does the run differential have to do with anything I mean, that's kinda exactly my irrational thought process right there. "This dumb useless stat clearly just padded by insane blowout wins can go and get horsefeathers; this offense obviously sucks." Yeah, you start questioning all the things that you believe now because of advanced stats. Like, I rationally know clutch doesn't exist, and players don't 'try harder' when it matters, or whatever. But you go down this road that eventually leads to all the morons on twitter being like 'oh who gives about that sweep? It's just the Reds/White Sox/Marlins/Pirates/Padres/Mets/half of baseball'
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Throwing a lot of those sliders against LH hitters isn't going to go well once they've seen six or seven of them. And he starts getting tired and leaving them up. Unfortunately, this is the World Series for the VBs, so you know we're going to see 2 innings of Hader pretty soon.
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Chatwood would be in AAA if darvish was healthy, and maybe even if butler was healthy. He’s screwed up just about every way you can be right now. On a separate note, how about more than one hit against a similarly garbage pitcher. We’re allowed to be good at offense early in the game.
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Brian "Super Regression Candidate" Duensing doesn't really strike me as the best choice for what could be the biggest AB of the game.
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I'm a little disappointed Baez didn't pump fake there...it was pretty clear he was going to try and take third.
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Contreras just refuses to catch this guy, right?
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Baez, Schwarber, and Happ greeting Eflin tonight before the game
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The Phillies, 'led' by a pissed Jake throwing his team under the bus, coming into town. Would it be too much to continue their misery and get another sweep?
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Didn't read it, but based on Fangraphs, this seems flawed. His FIP and xFIP is actually higher against lefties than righties, seems to basically be a .111 vs .370 BABIP. Either way, he's making his first start this year, so if we can knock him out early their bullpen will be a mess the rest of the series.
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CEJ to the DL with Shoulder Inflammation
squally1313 replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Obviously they aren't going to rush Darvish back, but this is a spot Monty could help as well. -
And when 'mediocre' is an 88 win pace, you know w'ere in a good place.
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where did i imply they were in uncharted waters? i'm saying it's really annoying that they're in this position again 2 months into the season, sustainable or not. if you're not frustrated, then more power to you, but there is plenty to be frustrated about so far. I get that it's enough for them to hang on how good the team SHOULD be and hopefully will be in the second half, as the Cubs did last year. But for a lot of us, that doesn't make the long stretch where they do struggle/are inconsistent to be any less annoying to sit through. There's this repeated response that any thinking along the lines of, "why is this good team playing better" is basically just parroting r_mack. Or that being frustrated with them again getting off to an up and down first half is somehow over the line, as if, something that was really annoying the previous season shouldn't be annoying the very next season simply because it happened before. I mean, even with all of this, they're playing at an 88 win pace. Literally the only bad thing about 2016 is that it got people thinking that winning 100+ games is something that happens with any regularity. This is a generally stupid sport where people write off most of the wins as 'well that team sucked so it didn't really count' and then dwell on the losses like they have extra significance. It's not been a fun year, but at least we aren't Dodgers fans.
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This. I'm not sure how this announcement did anything to make this better. The players didn't want this, and they aren't getting fined directly and there's no way on-field penalties. Make the NFL fine their shitty owner and then it'll just be more of a controversy when the owner calls out individual players.
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It's so annoying that the dumbest horsefeathering people in Chicago media basically created this story out of nowhere.
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Someone tell Montgomery he shouldn't accept his paycheck today (that's how paychecks work, right?)
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Yeah, going .500 against +.500 teams and taking care of business in your other games makes for a pretty clear path to the playoffs.
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I was on the ESPN broadcast hoping for 2016 WS flashbacks every few minutes...so much for that. They just blamed the brick wall for Melky not catching that ball, not the fact that it was scalded, the sun is brutal, or (most importantly) Melky is a terrible defender in his second game this year.
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It would be shocking that he could get back to his normal terrible control, more in line with his most recent two seasons? I don't think it would be shocking. Dude has to figure it out, of course. He's had one season where his BB% was under double digits and he has never ever been above average as a major leaguer. No one needs him to be an 'above average' major leaguer, whatever stats you're using to determine that. We've got four starters who are clearly better that are all signed for multiple years. There's an upside that's admittedly very hard to see right now, and there's a track record of being an effective fifth starter. If you think that he's going to finish this year as some historic anomaly of lack of control, sure. But his career, and 120+ years of baseball history says his walk rate will come down.
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Alright this is like six steps past meatball-y.