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  1. squally1313
    His postseason last year was strange. He had 2 great starts, one mediocre start and 1 disastrous start. 9 IP 1 ER, 2 H, 3 BB in the World Series was pretty damn good. Also even though the combined numbers suck (5.40 ERA in 4 starts last year) his OPS against was only .588 during those starts. I look at Cueto is a very good sometimes great pitcher, but he doesn't scare me in the way that Bumgarner does. We can hit him. It might only be a couple of runs but if we can get him out of the game early enough and Lester is on, I'm not terribly concerned with facing him. Normally I'd be a little concerned with the potential of losing 1 of the first 2 games at home, especially with Bumgarner on the mound in game 3, but I love the pitching matchup in game 4, so at worst we should get to game 5 barring standard baseball randomness, and again I am not particularly intimidated facing Cueto in that game. Yeah, .588 is pretty good, but it seems like it was driven largely by a .206 BABIP, which I can't see him repeating. Ks were down, walks were up, fly balls and home runs up a little. Again, small sample size, but if we're going to give Bumgarner credit for stepping his game up in the postseason (when in 2014 and last night his peripherals actually look worse than his career numbers), we can maybe say Cueto takes a small step back come October.
  2. squally1313
    These last two nights were a good tune up after not having had much emotional investment in baseball over the last month or so. Going to be a long time until tomorrow night (that 7:00-8:00 hour tomorrow is going to be torture and I'll probably just be drinking continuously). I know this is meatbally, but Cueto has basically been the anti-Bumgarner in the playoffs so far in his career. Crowd should be plenty rowdy and can hopefully get in his head.
  3. squally1313
    Saturday is 2 days rest. Who is "they?" Yeah, not my best opening sentence. I was following the Fangraphs chat yesterday and Cameron and the other guy both thought that would be the case, but they were thinking about it as starting on three days, so maybe all of us were off. For Bumgarner to pitch twice in this series, he's going to need to pitch on two days rest at least once. If that happens, I'm not super concerned.
  4. squally1313
    They're already talking about Bumgarner going Saturday on three days rest, and then presumably going game 5 too, which means they'd probably throw Cueto in game 4 on short rest. If that's what you think you have to resort to in order to have a chance, well...good luck. High of 70 on Friday and high of 68 on Saturday. Dong them into oblivion the first two games while the defense shuts down their feeble attempts at offense, and Jake will take advantage of whatever they call Safe-Co now and shut them down in game three to end this even year [expletive] and reignite God mode.
  5. squally1313
    The Giants are going to be really easy to hate, which I appreciate.
  6. squally1313
    The Giants leader in home runs was Belt with all of 17. Their lineup of no-power, all-contact guys going up against the best defensive team of all time? Sure, let's horsefeathering go.
  7. squally1313
    Welp...bring it Cueto.
  8. squally1313
    Getting guys tired. They're probably stretching and whatnot between innings and stuff so getting warm quickly shouldn't be a problem at this point. But just like, play catch or whatever. Have a lefty throwing right now to at least make the Giants think about who to put out as a pinch hitter. I'm sure you're right to a certain extent, but on a colder night like this...just seems weird.
  9. squally1313
    Another thing I don't get since I've only managed games in video games....how do you not have both bullpen mounds occupied at all times from here on out? Like what's the harm?
  10. squally1313
    I can see that, but isn't it a sport driven more by 'luck' than most others? Not saying imperfect umpires are the equivalent of a bloop single, but something about a pitch on the corner having some percentage of being called a strike, and having small ways to improve that percentage, kinda speaks to the same thing for me. A strike is a strike and a ball is a ball. We have the technology to make it a uniform thing now. It should be done. It's not a luck or grey area or nostalgic thing or whatever you want to spin it as. Yeah, I was making counter arguments to myself as soon as I posted that one. I'll never be able to make a logical argument to support it, I just think the drama generated in the split second between watching the pitch and waiting for the umps call adds to the experience. But it's probably just one of my first 'old man' beliefs.
  11. squally1313
    In a sport that requires so much precision in so many ways, it's weird that variability is accepted, much less desired by some. I can see that, but isn't it a sport driven more by 'luck' than most others? Not saying imperfect umpires are the equivalent of a bloop single, but something about a pitch on the corner having some percentage of being called a strike, and having small ways to improve that percentage, kinda speaks to the same thing for me.
  12. squally1313
    http://www.statcorner.com/CatcherReport.php Know Miggy was good, didn't realize he was that good. Wonder how much of that credit should be given to the starters...
  13. squally1313
    I'm not 100% on board for robot umps, as I think the variability adds to the drama to some extent, but they need to figure out some way to get better on pitches where the catcher gets crossed up.
  14. squally1313
    It's sequences like that where a good framing catcher is suddenly the most valuable player in baseball.
  15. squally1313
    Thor's walk rates definitely don't back this up, but I just get the sense watching him that he's the type of guy this Cubs team can wait out. In terms of Bumgarner, in the FG live chat Cameron has mentioned repeatedly how much he has missed his spots and left a lot of hittable pitches out there. A combination of the terrible Mets lineup and the ball carrying at all. Not concerned about him (though Cueto is much better than any other pitcher the Mets have).
  16. squally1313
    Give me a Yo bat flip and a MadBum meltdown
  17. squally1313
    These teams suck.
  18. squally1313
    He was a big fly ball guy this year...39.6% GB rate, lowest of his career. I would guess that wouldn't bode well for Wrigley in October (though San Francisco and their endless outfield is obviously a different story).
  19. squally1313
    Boston Outfield, Cubs Infield, Dodgers Starters, Posey, Ortiz, Indians Bullpen 94.4%, 68.6 WAR, win the WS. Edit: Boost up to 98.2% when you switch in the Cubs starters, so I assume that's the best option there. Haven't figured out 100% yet though.
  20. squally1313
    Also great that our 'surrender lineup' contains the 18th, 24th, and 47th best offensive players in baseball, per fWAR.
  21. squally1313
    It's completely blocked. This is a food and drink package for $150. Only $130 for Game 5, which is weird since it looks fully refundable. No view of the field, but there's value in being able to hear/see the crowd. I can't remember how synced up the televisions are on those rooftops...my buddy lives on Kenmore a half block from the left field bleachers with a rooftop, but it's almost more annoying than cool because the TV feed is a good 5-10 seconds behind live action. Almost better to just watch it at a bar and watch the action develop with everyone else there.
  22. squally1313
    Anybody have any updates on this? I'm hoping for whatever reason nothing is out yet, since I've gotten nothing.
  23. squally1313
    Probably way too soon to even think about this, but give him the Cy Young.
  24. squally1313
    Got away with one there, but watch matheny have someone retaliate later in the game.
  25. squally1313
    Hey Tanja
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