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I mean, the Cubs will end the day either tied or alone in the first wild card spot and haven't lost more than 3 games in a row all year. Rapid and complete probably aren't the words I would use to describe it.
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'Where I'm from, Philly, which has famously good and well respected and not problematic fans'
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Can we reassign Willi Castro down to 'CF against LHP and backup infielder' from 'Super-Sub/Pseudo Starter'?
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I mean....sure. Ownership should do things that keep the fans happy so that they give the owners money. You might find it hard to believe, but I have heard that phrase before. Anyways, what does that have to do with the fan/consumer booing someone on their own team? alternative/too online response: "Sir, the question was, is this your handwriting"
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Fans are the consumers, in this bad, tortured analogy. If I buy a cheeseburger at McDonalds, do I have the right to boo or yell at the kid working the register for not hustling? I mean, my money pays his salary right? Or would that just make me an a bad person, hypothetically.
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yeah that's the exact same thing good analogy
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pinch hit Happ? (kidding)
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He got pulled in the third, issue started in the second. Kept looking at his hand, couldn't control his breaking pitch.
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Hollowell and Little are both not long relief guys and they knew that Brown would be down for a couple days. Not sure why didn't go with someone that could offer a little more length.
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A 10-15 day IL stint for a blister is probably about the best you could hope for in terms of managing his innings. Pulling him in the third inning of game one of a DH is less than ideal obviously.
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The second inning was a little Ben Brown-ish. Couple very nasty pitches, couple points where he looked effectively wild, but the two hits and the lineout were all hit very hard. Hopefully it's just a grip issue and he can figure out a fix going forward, and we get a little BABIP luck to buy him a couple quick innings.
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starlin.gif good play by the rookie
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Unless/until things get drastically tighter in the standings, my dumb optimist brain is really just focused on continued health and effectiveness from the starting pitching. I keep waiting for it to explode, either on the Boyd/Horton health side or Rea/Taillon/a little bit Shota on the effectiveness side, but it's been looking really impressive lately and every day without bad health news is another day closer to October with what looks to be a really effective top three starters. Can't really do much about the hitters besides hope they come around and luck finds us at the right time. This group was elite as recently as like 3 months ago, clearly they can do it, and help isn't coming anyways. It's not going to keep me up at night when they struggle in August, it just doesn't matter yet. But going into October with like....Taillon and Rea/Assad as your #2 and #3 is effectively a death sentence.
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I suck at those rolling graphs things that all the smart people post here, but tried playing around with them a little bit and seemed like Tucker was at least hitting the ball harder lately. GB rate is spiking along with it, which is bad, but he through a pretty clear dip in his Hard Hit% that seems to have mostly gone back to the earlier season levels. It sucks we might not see April/May Tucker, but even 80% of it is still better than the alternatives.
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I was wondering why it was Little over Hodge but seems like Hodge has had some control issues the last two times out (5 walks in 3 total innings). Cumulative for August, with those appearances, is 7.1 scoreless, 5 hits, 6 walks, 11 Ks.
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But he was fine right after the injury right? Like, you can't just IL someone because they hit bad for a couple weeks.
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Right, it's not nothing, but that goes back to my first point. If he can pitch better in certain situations, from the stretch, etc....we should be wanting him to do it that way all the time. It's like claiming some hitter is clutch or whatever....they're professional baseball players, why can't they perform at that level consistently? If he can't for stamina or whatever other reasons, then he's probably more effective in shorter doses.
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Then tell him to pitch to every batter like there’s guys on, and if he can’t turn it up like that all the time, make him a middle reliever. like, it’s 10% the slightly improved K numbers and 90% the steep, certainly unreliable drop in BABIP
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Quick scan of FG shows that they used all five of their top five relievers both Friday and Saturday, which is probably the better explanation for using their other guys today. Not sure how strict they adhere to something like avoiding three appearances in four days, but definitely stretched thin at the moment.
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I’m sure I’ll look into it before tomorrow would assume the last two brewers game required a pretty large amount of high leverage bullpen work
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If Assad has some additional ability he can pull out with runners on, the obvious question is why he doesn’t just pitch like that all the time. or he’s just gotten very lucky
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7 runs given up and anecdotally balls we’re seemingly hit harder, wind took away a couple home runs. Not championing some elite production but PCA, Busch, Dansby, Happ all had good signs. Javier Assad has allowed 15 baserunners in 8 innings and has matched that with 5 total strikeouts. Know they need plenty of arms with the DH tomorrow but assuming health everywhere else he should be at the bottom of the totem pole, starters wise.
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Ugly but effective. Bats are showing small signs of life. Let’s see what happens this week.
