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See, I’ve also been really enjoying the white Sox resurgence as just something more entertaining than the wasteland that they inhibited the last 4-5 years, but it’s almost because I think there’s a lot of guys in that lineup who could be, if not already are, outright douchebags. Antonacci, the Montgomerys, signing Tommy Pham. they’re like a south side catholic league baseball team I hated playing and I somehow mean that as a compliment. Baseball is more fun when the Sox are hateable, rather than pathetic.
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I mean, both of these teams are significantly worse than the Cubs, and I think even the most negative people around here would agree with that. It's honestly insane that one of the Astros, White Sox, and Guardians will be in the ALCS.
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being told you have less potential utility than gabriel arias seems pretty cruel even for a washed up 38 year old reliever
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yeah I feel like on a per inning basis, the power ranking of the staff is Palencia/Zeferjahn, then like 6 guys who can all go multiple innings (Gausman, Holmes, Civale, Boyd, Imanaga, Peterson), a couple relievers out of the circle of trust (Webb, Rolison), and then emergency pitchers (Rea, Assad). Thinking about it like that, and considering how the Padres are relatively split neutral (98 wRC v LHP, 104 wRC v RHP) and, per FG, have three positions in a platoon (Harris, Sheets, Salas against RHP, Campusano, Hayes, Taylor against LHP)....what's stopping the Cubs from trying to get 3-4 innings out of two of those six guys, one LHP and one RHP every game, then then finishing up with Palencia/Zef/Rolison against LHHs? If it goes well, you'd eventually have traditional starters going on short rest. But none of them would be going long, and no one has really earned a third trip through the lineup. Boyd/Holmes, Gausman/Peterson, Shota/Civale.
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man. Rea and Assad both making the roster is the perfect topper to the whole 'just wait until the reinforcements get healthy' saga.
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are there any big decisions to be made on the 26 man roster?
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me when the padres get to the third time through the lineup and i start hearing about pitchers warming up me when the cubs go down 1-0 in the third and people start patting themselves on the back for having doomboners for the last 4 months the cubs walking out of petco tomorrow night to get on their flight to milwaukee
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34th best offensive season of all time. 2nd best Cubs season of all time. Already has the 45th most offensive fWAR in Cubs history, Top 30 isn't out of the question by this time next year.
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this is a lot of bad losses in a short amount of time.
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such a good AB from pete there. got under it a little, but seems very locked in.
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good work picking up PCA there, which is a statement you could say for maybe the second of third time all year
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nico is in a deep, deep funk
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https://defector.com/pete-crow-armstrong-has-answered-every-question Some insane symmetry on the top comment on this article
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3.73 BB/9 after today, which is a little above league average. 4.26 just with the Cubs going into today, which will go up.
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Again, speaking just to the box score. But 78 pitches, 50 strikes is 64%, which is I believe right in line with the league wide average.
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I'm hesitant to react based solely on the numbers but the Red Sox xBA is under .200 for the game so I'm guessing Holmes' didn't give up a lot of hard contact. I'd like more Ks, but 10/2 GB/FB ratio is going to play in front of this defense.
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He's significantly worse against LHP. 121 wRC v 70 wRC this year
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i'm not watching, was the anthony double off the monster? savant has xBA at .020
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taylor is still alive and still good, which is nice
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Fangraphs has Gamboa as an opener, which makes sense, he hasn't faced more than 8 batters in over a month. But they have the next pitcher as Jake Bennett, and they're both LHP. Who knows. Hopefully we get a Red Sox team that is very much just going through the motions.
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31st best offensive season of all time at the moment. a big series (at least 0.5 fWAR, maybe 0.6) would get him past Judge's best seasons and into top 20 all time, which would mean only bested by Babe, Bonds, Gehrig, Hornsby, Wagner, Williams, Mantle, Cobb, Foxx. Or, said another way, would be the best non-Bonds season in 70 years. Top 50 is guaranteed, would have to really faceplant to fall out of the top 40.
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12th best pitching staff in baseball in September. 6th best offense.
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This is absolutely a GIDP right?
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Could have just seen rea’s (third in total innings since the beginning of last year) last moment as a cub
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Alcantara for the ninth. Sure, why not.
