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It's a tough spot. 8 guys in the pen and three of them pitched over 20 pitches yesterday. Of Hodge, Smyly, Lopez, Miller, Roberts, there's a collective 2 appearances of 2 innings this month, everything else has been shorter. So then you're asking 5 of them to get 8 (or 7 plus). I could see an argument for asking Smyly to empty the tank and hoping we could ride the offense in Washington until we get the extra pitcher up. But it was also 3-1 going into the second and he pitched semi-well enough to deserve getting out of the second 3-3.
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If I'm googling right, which is he was scratched on a Sunday game after going 0/11 and CBS is implying that was related to the shoulder injury, I've got him at a 126 wRC for the year before that point. That's pretty good, right? Or were you only wanting to talk about the 8 games he played for the Cubs.
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Deal! He's a good hitter who's clearly dealing with an injury. Our prior third baseman kinda just did this all year anyways, so I'm used to it.
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for fucks sake
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Can we get 7 innings out of Smyly/Lopez/Hodge/Miller/Roberts? Day off tomorrow, Shota Friday.
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Just a reminder that Isaac Paredes, comfortably above average hitter for the last three years and with three remaining years of team control, is four months older than Christopher 'well we just need to give him consistent ABs while he develops' Morel
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Just like they should have done a month ago for PCA and Amaya am I right
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He's grading out really well defensively on FG, which must be from 'stolen' strikes or if the blame for the running game is falling on the pitcher (as referenced on the broadcast). The offense is pretty much gone by this point but still runs into a home run every couple weeks.
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One run and twenty pitches. Well done.
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Cubs up 1-0 early as everyone expected
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Day game after a night game is pretty standard. Bethancourt has also been Unreal in his very small sample size here.
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Do you think it matters to someone like Juan Soto? Genuinely asking. There's some part of me that thinks a pitch of 'we can give you the DH spot once or twice a week and a day off when needed' would be appealing, and then the other side is that the Cubs planning to give 135ish games to Happ/PCA/Suzuki/Belli/Soto/Busch becomes an issue in terms of a Dansby-type mindset or if he's got certain records in mind he's trying to attack. Most likely it's just 'who is writing the biggest check' and I don't think someone like Soto would be concerned about 'winning a starting spot'. But I feel like it's somewhat analogous to a running back room situation and some players would bristle at the redundancy even when it's team-beneficial.
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I've also spent most of the season just assuming the Braves would figure out a playoff spot and spent most of August hoping for a Padres/DBacks swoon, neither of which happened. But...have you seen their lineup recently? Albies, Riley, and Acuna all out, Matt Olson struggling to stay about 100 wRC. It's basically Ozuna and some bizarre late career resurgences from Whit Merrifield and Travis D'Arnaud. They picked up Soler and are voluntarily playing him in right(!). Gio Urshela, released by the Tigers(!), is their starting 3B now that Riley is out. It's pretty dire. The pitching is good but it is so, so old. I don't really know how Chris Sale went from 2020: 0 innings 2021: 63 innings total 2022: 16 innings total 2023: 109 innings total 2024: 148 innings and somehow the Cy Young favorite? TLDR: This is not the 2023 Braves
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5th best pitcher in baseball since he was called up by fWAR. Chris Sale by a comfortable margin and then Skubal makes sense, Christopher Sanchez and Michael King are a bit of a shock. Best ERA since he was called up, just getting a little lucky on stranding runners thus far.
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Fall of the house of Busch-er
squally1313 replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in General Baseball Talk
What's the story behind why it was 'necessary' for the Cardinals to trade Carlson? -
Hey, if the Cubs can be historically unique outliers in blowing leads after the 8th inning or failing to get runners in from scoring position, why can't they go and make a run on a 3.3% playoff chance?
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WW. Go get Skenes tomorrow.
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Kinda want to see Cruz time up a fastball and shatter the exit velocity records
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Some loud contact what seems like good stuff.
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102 from palencia with some movement (admittedly after the pirates catcher turned around 101 at the knees and almost hit it out)
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Yeah you have to imagine the mega contract dream is dead at this point. Maybe there’s an angle where he wants job security and takes like a five or six year, $80-$90 deal so he doesn’t hit free agency in two years? Beating a dead horse on my end, but going Chapman instead would have been really nice.
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Just needed a couple to find his sea legs
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This is all confusing because I was told repeatedly that because we scored runs last night we weren’t going to score tonight and also that Steele was going to get rocked
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Midseason Prospect List Updates
squally1313 replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
It's hard to tell with Hoerner because he had so few minor league PAs (under 100 across R through A, then 294 at AA before going straight to the majors). But he had 5 total home runs in those 375ish PAs. K rates were all a low lower too (10.5% in AA compared to Shaw's 17.5%). I think it's fair to look at what Happ turned into and think that Shaw doesn't have that kind of power, but it took Happ a few years to develop it. In 2015 he had 9 HRs in 295 PAs across low A and A (Shaw had 8 in 170 across Arizona, high A, and AA last year). 2016 Happ hit 15 in 567 PAs across high A and AA (Shaw has 17 in 443 PAs in AA/AAA). Happ flipped a switch in 2017 (33 across AAA and MLB) that you probably can't count on, but so far at an equal point in their progression Shaw has shown more power. And that's before considering the depressed offense situation in AA. -
Jones hasn't pitched in the majors since July 3rd, so between that and the Pirates being down to 0.2% playoff odds would assume he's on some sort of meaningful limit. He's been ramped up pretty good in AAA the last couple starts though (16 and 17 batters faced). Would assume if he's throwing well he'll get two times through the order. He's also certainly no Skenes, more of a budget Steele than some elite guy.
