We Got The Whole 9

Seiya really needs to learn to pull these pitches and stop going up the middle.

He should be gone before then

I'm absolutely shocked to see they have the 7th highest meatball swing%. Can you get more granular with that stat? Like what's the rate of those being pulled flyballs against league average, for instance?

Last night? He pitched 14 innings vs us this year and gave up 4 hits with 15:2 KBB. He absolutely mowed us down, as most pitchers who throw 95+ with good stuff do.

Now that we know he's ok, can we bash the man holding the camera? Holy crap.

This'll cure some ills

They don't need to be a .600 club to make the playoffs but it looks like we will be selling. Not sure we will get much though.

Good lawd 10 ER. Busch locking in on the ROY now.

Damn didn't realize Contreras fell off that hard. Nice. The Busch trade is a clear home run. We could also get a pick out of it. If he is a neutral-splits guy that is just huge. There aren't a lot of LHB like that and you would hope that it only gets better with more experience.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-end-of-the-2016-cubs-is-coming/

Mo hit the GW HR

Lol I highly doubt Stearns regards him that highly Bowden you schmuck

He swings at strikes on 3-0. Not sure if he's made out for this org.

Shaw pulled a bomb

Isn't this dude one of the worst defenders in the game? I think it's time to just pick another organization.

Bradish had TJS. I wonder who they will trade for. They should get Crochet but they'll have their pick of the litter.

Man would it be nice if Kyle's curveball became a weapon. Hitters will adjust and try to sit on it, but it looked tighter than usual yesterday. He just has to commit to it. You can find a handful of interviews over the years where he has mentioned increasing its usage, but the stats bear out that he really doesn't. If he has a curveball now he can work the "high heat" which he did effectively yesterday, That performance was so beautiful to watch. I think he is turning that page, has good momentum right now for sure. Reading his thoughts on it, he knows he was too predictable. It had worked for him for so long but for some reason it felt like hitters had the pitchcom in their ear. Really pulling for Kyle to finish his Cubs career strong. Legend. The hitting with RISP was totally inexcusable. These guys don't swing at good pitches with runners on. They aren't particularly adept at laying off the pitches in the shadow zone and they often don't swing at pitches over the plate. It's frustrating as hell to watch. Bellinger chasing a changeup low and away before he even had 2 strikes - like, that horsefeathers shouldn't happen. He should be able to calm down and wait for a pitch he can do something with, even if it's just hitting a proper flyball. But the thing is, this goes back a half-decade, and with a shitload of different personnel. Some of you guys are gonna say it's just baseball but we are talking about being in the bottom third damn near every year in this category. And they have so many of these ABs where they swing at crap pitches playing right into the defensive strategy. Side note: I think Bellinger saw like 6 pitches all game. He has been super impatient the last few games. Dansby has to stop costing us. That was a bad decision to try to turn the DP. It marred Hendricks' amazing performance. I mean dude, flip the horsefeathers ball and he has 6 shutout, absolutely dominant innings, capped off with a perfect DP grounder. Too many fuckups from an elite defender. Hoping he tightens up his game, I love seeing the oppo power, we really cannot have this dude Heyward on us. The FB rate was expected to be about 30% higher. Lets go. Leiter's splitter can only take him so far. He's a gasoline fire right now. Every damn AB he gets 2 quick strikes and just crumbles. Figure out a slider or sweeper or something dude, everybody's doing it. Go down to Iowa and work on a knuckle ball lol. In the last week we had 4 regulars post a 15 or lower, with 3 going deeply negative. Maybe an approach shift is in order. We can't go on like this.

3 singles too

horsefeathers that was way too close for comfort. Can't believe we didn't blow it.

These walks from the pen are insane.

Yeah he would have had a better chance for sure. A little over-zealous, maybe he misjudged the roll.

He did

Big time Drew

Felt like a pretty tailor-made DP there, Dansby.

I'm not sure I pitch to Ramos here