squally1313
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Is there....some other version of Matt Boyd that's been good that I'm missing? (the start before this was worse, to head off any sample size questions)
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I mean, I don't know what you really think can be done in that scenario. He struck out De La Cruz on 93 in the third, gave up a home run on a breaking pitch in the fourth (every other in play pitch was a fastball over 92 MPH), and then gave up 2 home runs in the fifth on 90.9 and 91.1. Just....as soon as he drops a single MPH on a single fastball, someone better be ready? Just auto pull after 4 innings? How do you explain his lowest average velocity coming in a start where he went 7 scoreless?
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Is this actually statistically accurate or is it just vibes/recency bias? FG has his average fastball at 92.0 in his last start against Cincinnati, which was his highest average velocity since June 29th, and it was his worst start of the season. His lowest average fastball velocity was July 19th, against Minnesota, where it was 90.4, and he pitched 7 scoreless innings.
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In the last thirty days Cubs lefty starter X: 4.85 K/9, 3.34 BB/9, 2.12 HR/9, 19.4% HR/FB, .224 BABIP, 5.16 ERA/5.56 ERA+/6.40 FIP/5.16 xFIP Cubs lefty starter Y: 11.51 K/9, 2.38 BB/9, 3.57 HR/9, 23.7% HR/FB, .339 BABIP, 5.96 ERA/4.16 ERA+/6.89 FIP/4.25 xFIP To be clear, I think both of these guys are better than this. That's not to say 'Good' or 'Should definitely start a playoff game'. They're both obviously struggling quite a bit, but them pitching well is a step above any of our other non-Gausman/Holmes options, so turning one or both of them into de-facto openers or short stint guys so that we can hypothetically chase wins with Aaron Civale and his 4.73 FIP seems like doing a little too much for pretty minimal upside.
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I’d certainly prefer home field advantage over having to go to Philly, but I really don’t think it’s the best long term plan to treat the next 21 games like some sort of extended playoff and make pitching decisions accordingly. What, we’re just going to pull shota, and Boyd, and I guess Peterson now, at the first sign of trouble, and then…stretch gausman and Holmes as much as possible when it’s their turn because we need 5 innings from the bullpen the other three times through the rotation?
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Man. Wasn't expecting much for this year, though he had the highest upside for a late season spark. But next year is really starting to look ugly in terms of the rotation. (does a quick look up on Reid Detmers since the trade deadline, sees his 1.46 ERA, logs off frustratedly)
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We have the highest scoring offense in baseball and a super fun player threatening to have a top 2-3 Cubs offensive season in their 150 year history. We've, on multiple occasions, gone on double digit game runs where we were literally unbeatable, and it's not like those runs were driven by elite pitching that is no longer available. It's very weird that you wouldn't want to see that team get a good shot against a pool of very flawed WC teams and then take a shot against the better teams.
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Yeah you can certainly criticize some of his individual decisions but can't imagine that's a unique Counsell thing, on the whole he's been fine. I'd be starting to look a little warily at Hottovy and the pitching infrastructure. You can split hairs on how much responsibility the coaching staff has to keep the pitching staff healthy, but there's been a lot of talk about getting unlockable pitchers and we haven't actually seen that turn into much success on the field.
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Think he was talking about the brewers
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We can score more than three.
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I’m sure he was standing on second or pretty close and the ball never got more than a foot away from a brewer. In hindsight he was obviously hurt. Hopefully we just convert here.
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We’ve got 11 outs left and we’re OPSing about 1400 so far this series so things might turn out ok still
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I’m just worried about when they face the good pitchers from the good teams
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Shaw is not a shortstop. Play him at second if you want (Pedro has been pretty mediocre there, eye test wise) but shortstop is the most important position and you want your best guy there. Busch is your best option, outside of fatigue concerns we shouldn't be just hoping to fall into a worse hitter hitting better for whatever reason.
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I know this is the PCA isn't human thread, but pulled up that same leaderboard and realized that Seiya was 8th and Bregman was 15th on that list. Which is fun.
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what a freak
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oh ok, got it, my bad
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Phillies: 47 runs in 6 games, 5-1 record Dodgers: 32 runs in 6 games, 4-2 record Braves: 5 runs in 3 games, 1-2 record, another series to come So I guess just hopefully not the Braves unless we score a bunch of runs against them in a few weeks, which is certainly possible given our most-runs-in-baseball offense?
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We scored 17 runs yesterday am I taking crazy pills or something
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what's not happening? making the playoffs? they were at 98.7% going into today.
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this pitching staff is a horsefeathers embarrassment
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I’m just happy all the same people who confidently predicted we’d be out of the playoff race by June get to dust off the old hits
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horsefeathers. Did not realize that if we fall into a tie or, god forbid, go down a half game in the wild card top seed standing that it goes away and we can never get it back. That seems a little unfair but if so we probably shouldn’t let it happen.
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He’s a top 5 hitter, defender, baserunner in baseball at 24 years old, and he’s locked up at $19m a year for the next six years. And we can’t discount this, especially after cheering for Kyle Tucker for a year: He’s probably the coolest player in baseball.
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Choosing to believe Busch is unselfishly saving his two week hot streak that every single player has gotten this year for October
