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Simply put, Owen Caissie is the backup outfielder. Putting up a .690 OPS in his first 18 PAs doesn’t change that fact.
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No, because there are very different and public facts and circumstances behind Kyle Tucker sitting for three games in a row. Does there really need to be justification for the starting DH starting at DH
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But that's not what happened. He didn't start Seiya because of 8 ABs over a three year period. He started Seiya because Seiya is a very good hitter and is statistically more likely to perform than Owen Caissie.
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well that somehow didn't work
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eh....blowing the opposite way, hard, maybe, but just 91.7 off the bat, and you could tell Happ knew he missed it
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JD is covering it now, but Ashby is unavailable and Koenig has pitched two of the last three, and I've yet to see them go 3 in 4 this week, so they might not have it as an option.
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really don't love the reach there by Tucker, his eye at the plate is about all he has going for him right now. essentially icing PCA here, needs to make sure at least one gets in during his PA
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Guys Tucker is just targeting their worst defender, it's smart baseball
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Very back of the math calculations but believe 2nd half Wrigley games are averaging 6.8 runs total, and the league average on team runs per game is around 4.4, so we're 2 runs below average. Obviously a small sample size but Wrigley is playing like the biggest pitchers park in history over the last month.
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Stop letting Joey Ortiz appear even marginally competent at baseball
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41 pitches through 2 is the smallest of silver linings
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There's the Andrew Vaughn all my white sox fan friends know so well
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I've got .597, but splitting hairs there. In that stretch, his walk rate is significantly higher than his career average (16.4% to 10%) and his K rate is slightly better (23% to 25.1%). His BABIP over this stretch is .236, his career BABIP is .332. If he continues getting BABIP luck 100 points below his career average, I agree his results will continue to look bad. There's reason to believe it won't continue this way, and his expected wOBA being 25 points above his YTD wOBA probably backs that up.
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I mean, I think Suzuki is a much better hitter than Caissie. The small sample size stat backing up just happens to align with that thought.
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This isn't so much directed at you but him hypothetically falling to 800 would mean he still has 68 more points to go to get to Caissie's OPS.
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I think the large sample results say Seiya Suzuki is a clearly superior hitter
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Was thinking Kittredge but probably depends on how the matchups stack up. Brown if things go sideways, probably going to have to have Brasier for an inning, ideally to work through the largely worthless bottom half of their lineup
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I mean, we were all complaining about how the lack of a bench in the first half made all the starters exhausted and led to the slump like a week ago right?
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I kept seeing Priester as 11-2 with a 3.48 ERA and vaguely remembering his top prospect status and I just assumed he was a stud but metrically he's pretty mediocre. Bad at strikeouts, gives up hard contact, big beneficiary of good infield defense. Should be a winnable game.
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Should we just bench the entire team for a little bit? Might shake things up you know
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Didn’t need this
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But he was the missing link
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https://blogs.fangraphs.com/kyle-tucker-needs-a-break/ Couple parts that I liked: This makes sense for three reasons. First, the Cubs are all but locked into a wild card spot. After Monday’s games, they had a 92.5% chance of being a wild card team, a 4.2% chance of winning the division, and a 3.3% chance of missing the playoffs altogether. There is very little to gain by sprinting to the finish over the last six weeks of the season, and equally little to lose by giving a struggling player a chance to catch his breath. .... Tucker also has a 58.5% pull rate in August, which is the highest single-month mark of his entire career. This despite the declining bat speed. My hypothesis is that he can sense that he’s down a tick of power and/or bat speed and is trying to get out in front of the ball to compensate. The result is a 2.10 GB/FB ratio for one of the most fly ball-happy hitters in the league. (This part especially made sense to my dumb, lefty, played baseball growing up mind) ... Tucker could’ve been leaping tall buildings in a single bound for the past two months and Milwaukee would still have the NL Central locked up.
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and here I thought we were anti-coddling in the game threads
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While yesterday objectively rocked, the Brewers did a pretty good job of minimizing bullpen damage, using just three relief arms over the two games. Would assume that means Ashby and Myers are unavailable today, and potentially whoever Grant Anderson is, but otherwise they should have all of their leverage arms ready to go. Meanwhile the Cubs had everyone except Brown throw yesterday. Would assume he's available, though just two days off after 54 pitches Sunday is a bit odd for his starter background. Rogers has pitched the last three days, Kittredge four of the last five, Thielbar two of the last three, Pomeranz the last two. Palencia and Keller seem fine, as does Brasier, but need some innings from Rea (and then Shota tomorrow).
