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Going to assume Wiggins is dead but if this IL thing he’s dealing with is partly to limit the innings, um, we could use 3-4 a week up in the majors.
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Trainer came out. Quick visit though.
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7-1 home stand, we beat up an elite lefty starter, and our thus far walk prone new pitching addition went 7 innings without throwing one. In the worst case here.
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well, did craig kill caleb
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Well that certainly wasn't it
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9-1-2 in the 9th, I will take one strikeout, one hard hit ball right at someone, and one terrifying fly ball that lands in Happ's glove a step in front of the tracks please.
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Good, not elite. That was a weird enough play that I'm willing to write it off. That didn't take long, offense is a machine.
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Streaming era pro: I can watch this game on my phone at my desk Streaming era cons: Pretty much everything else but also seeing posts like this and thinking I'm a minute behind and just waiting for an error that (thankfully) never came
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Mediocre bullpen arms + bad BABIP luck. Their bullpen is also worn out, we have more outs left, go win.
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Unless you're calling for Ballesteros to be only a pinch hitter, Suzuki's bat is much better than being a short side of a DH platoon.
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We're probably still going to win because we're a really good baseball team but we're also currently built to drop a few of these types of games. Doing it after a 8 game win streak against two projected playoff teams is just not something I'm going to let ruin my day. At the same time, come on Alex.
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If he wants to keep himself in shape I'm sure his ability to eat innings for the minimum will have some appeal come July when the 5-6 non contending teams do mass sell offs. Or he could just take the $110m he's made in his career and ride off into the sunset.
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It was the last year of the deal, so most of it has already been paid. Like $16m for the rest of the year still
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No game thread up yet but giving PCA the day off against Sanchez and letting Shaw try out CF. Also going Amaya at DH, so avoiding LH hitters as much as possible (besides Kingery, sorry buddy, better luck next time).
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Walkoff ABS, good for Amaya. The team is good.
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98 with run back to the inside corner is about as good as it gets.
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Backhus is an opener for Taijuan Walker, who looks thoroughly cooked. Going off the 'avoid 3 games in 4 days' approach, they're probably trying to avoid Kerkering, Mayza, Shugart, and Alvarado got pulled for an injury/injury concern last night. Backhus himself pitched Sunday and Monday, so guessing he's one inning at most. Game 3 of a four game, Monday-Thursday series is always going to test a bullpen, but put some runs up early and they might let Walker wear it for a while (and we can hopefully soak up some innings from Little or Rolison).
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lol Dansby with a ‘Scott, get the horsefeathers away from me’ wave off
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Uh oh. Seiya remembered how to hit
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Question of the week: are you optimistic?
squally1313 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
All good points above, thanks. I think maybe my larger point isn't to ride for Stuff+, it's that I'm not really giving the Cubs pitching infrastructure the benefit of the doubt when a Cub/the Cubs in general show up as struggling in a certain metric. Cabrera has a 6.75 K/9 and a 4.37 BB/9. That's bad. Maybe his stuff and velocity will tick up as the weather warms up, but so will his HR/9, which is currently zero. I'm sure the Cubs have their own metrics and analytics and prioritize things in a way that is different than the FG leaderboards. But the Cubs also haven't been top 10 in pitching (per fWAR) since 2020, so I don't take a lot of comfort in the response to 'here's a bad stat for a Cubs pitcher' being 'well the Cubs probably don't care about that stat'. -
Question of the week: are you optimistic?
squally1313 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I don't know if saying the pitching staff that was ranked 19th in fWAR last year 'don't seem to care' about a stat where they also ranked 19th makes a ton of sense. It's not a direct correlation or even really that strong of one (though the Phillies led the league in both), but ending up in the same ranking for that stat as your overall production isn't really an indictment of the stat or a sign that the Cubs don't think much of it. Because then you could essentially just say 'the Cubs don't seem to care about pitching fWAR' right? -
Question of the week: are you optimistic?
squally1313 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Those are some examples. The Braves signed Iglesias and Suarez and they've given up 1 run in just shy of 18 innings this year. There's a counter argument of 'the resources can be better spent otherwise' that I can buy, but I think that lost a good amount of weight once we decided we were going to be a luxury tax team and we weren't as much pinching pennies to stay under the line. I don't think I'm going to buy a 'the relievers who got the most money are more likely to be bad or hurt'. We also didn't have to pick a lane. -
Question of the week: are you optimistic?
squally1313 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
PCA needs to be parked in the 9 spot of the lineup for the foreseeable future but it's much less of a concern when the other two glove first guys up the middle are hitting the way that they are. Kelly and Hoerner aren't going to be able to keep this up but Bregman and Suzuki aren't going to continue to hit the way they have been. So the offense is fine. Still skating on thin ice with the pitching, would really like to see a normal start from Boyd on Wednesday. But ultimately as much as I dislike this whole built in 'throwing pitchers at the wall to see what sticks' part of the cycle, we're 22 games into it and on a 96 win pace, so we're more than dealing with it. Keep it up. -
This lineup is so, so deep. Dansby has been, xwOBA wise, essentially the same hitter since signing with the cubs and we’ve just (correctly) continually moved him down in the lineup as more and more talent arrived/developed.
