We Got The Whole 9

The pass game has been terrible but we are playing a ridiculously talented team as well. At least several defenders have flashed. Oh horsefeathers Mitch in

Definitely should've had that, Shaheen

Good stuff Leo

Solid Tseng again 7 IP 1 ER 5:1 HR 3B 6 singles, 9 GO, got GDP to end the 6th and the 7th Maples faced 2 batters, threw 6 pitches, 5 for strikes, got a K and a GO Hannemann is 16/18 on SB. Gotta think he's gonna be in Chicago in September.

Definitely want to be patient with it

... Barstool Whatever the feelings are about Barstool I'm pretty sure they have decent connections to both Chicago baseball teams. They've broken stuff before, especially like this on injuries and call ups. Yeah I'm not doubting their credibility but I used ellipses just to denote the grain of salt needed. Nothing officially announced yet but I lean toward it being accurate.

... Barstool

Me too. Though it looks like inclement weather could produce a pretty sloppy game. I'm real curious to see the pass rush and how well it helps the coverage. Hoping for very short-lived pockets and several hurries from Floyd.

Or was I just responding to this attempted cover-up that was in response to Sofa who initiated the "complaining" Nobody is getting on base in front of him, pitchers can attack him more with pitchers, pitches and not have to give in as much when sexy dexy and the like were OBP monsters in front of him last year. And for the most part Duke agreed with me; just not with my theory for why those rates are down

You've got to quit inferring so much from stuff like LD%. It's crazy unstable. It does do a really good job of explaining why things have happened. But it's hard to use contact quality stats to tell us much going forward. Remember when Miguel Sano and Aaron Judge were BABIP'ing over .400 and making no weak contact and you were going gaga over them and proclaiming that Judge was going to BABIP over .400 all year? That could still happen, but that's aside the point. The point is taken. What I will say is that when I comment on KB I'm not trying to project anything toward what's gonna happen moving forward; just simply what has been, what I've seen and what possibly comes out in the numbers. The league is really good at figuring players out and it is impossible for me to begin to say how hard it is to counter those adjustments. Judge has had a reversal of fortune for sure. I stopped looking at those stats for Sano and Judge a while back but for that moment in time, they were pretty outrageous. I know it's not a mental thing; the guy recorded the most high pressure putout in baseball history. I'll reiterate, for everybody, that I've never said he's incapable of being clutch. In fact just now is the first time I've used that word. But I relent - my expectations are just so high with him. Perhaps a little out of whack. He's still had a great season and is really one supernova week from being right on track with last year. Now would be a great time for him to go into god mode.

I mean man I love the guy and he's still having a great season but why is it so sacrilegious to acknowledge the fact that his numbers say he has performed extremely poorly this season with RISP. You guys can say bad babip and small sample stuff but he's hit 5 HR all year with runners on base. I think it's fine to admit that that is not characteristic of Kris Bryant and it is disappointing. The general theory is that players' numbers should play across all situations but his 780 OPS is not what we all expect from KB. I'm going baseless meatball here but his swing looks a lot more 2015 than 2016 and he cannot catch up to the inside fastball with the regularity he did last season. He's fouling off a ton of pitches he was crushing last year. There's a significant drop in his LD (6%) and hard contact (9%) rates and he is not catching the barrel often. His pull% is also slightly down and his center% is slightly up. A lot of those 380 foot flies from last year are dying in CF gloves. Not sure how to look it up but I'm curious about his batted ball distance compared to last year.

Least Victor has stayed hot

I know but think of how many runs we could have if we didn't get shut down by the Magnifico Gonzalezes and Cy Blechs of the world So are we only scoring these runs on the good pitchers? I swear that's not the narrative I heard last week. I haven't been a part of that narrative, so I don't really know But I do know that since the break we had those 2 games and the dumb one against Suter and the one against Roark. That's half of our losses in the second half.

We've scored more runs than any non-Rockies team in the NL since the break. I know but think of how many runs we could have if we didn't get shut down by the Magnifico Gonzalezes and Cy Blechs of the world

Did they actually, like, send em a buck?

Is it meatbally to say I'm tired of seeing horsefeathers pitchers lock us down

Let's see how long Tseng can box-out that FIP

Yeah, I was talking more about walk rate rather than RISP hitting. I feel like we haven't worked pitchers much and haven't "accepted" walks for like two months, but I also know I'm talking out of my ass and the numbers wouldn't show that. According to FanGraphs the Cubs BB% last year was 10.4% and this year it is 9.8% Baez playing more does this by himself probably ha And I should probably take my LOA as Wilson let's in another run. He's just not getting whiffs. This game has been awful.

Relatively disappointed

I wasn't too lazy to make this thread. I was looking for a fall guy and Sofa took the bait.

Not crazy about the pitch selection. Posey was waiting on that.

Johan Camargo was so excited he got some pub in a FG article today that he tripped over his own foot and seriously injured his knee running out onto the field before the first pitch

Paredes hitting over 400 with 4 HR in Tigers system after hitting 2 today

http://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=370807126 Apparently Javier Lopez is being credited with the ITP HR

I've only been negative with KB and Zobrist. It's not like I'm bitching left and right like I did early on. [emoji53]