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  1. Bertz
    Wesneski's issues are pretty reminiscent of Alzolay's a few years ago. Presumably the solution is pretty similar and revolve around the cutter. Give him a month down at Iowa and call him back up in June to give Steele a breather. Boxberger's gotta go, or at least get IL'd. He's got enough command and funk to be pretty successful at 93, but there's a ton of 90-91 from him right now. I understand wanting an adult down in the pen, but he's throwing BP right now.
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    Cubs have won two in a row The star of last night's game was Chris Morel, the second most positive person in the world after... Today, Hayden Wesneski toes the rubber. After a rough start he's on a bit of a roll, so he's likely to be extra animated on the mound Joe Ryan is starting for the Twins. He's a boring finesse pitcher who gets soft contact, so you know Jed's going to watch with interest Go Cubs, with 3 in a row
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    Nico no longer day-to-day
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    Yeah that Denver one is almost as egregious as the Carolina one
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    Let me just check these vs. LHP numbers... Also looks like they worked their pen pretty hard against the Padres. Duran is their only good reliever who tonight wouldn't be his 3rd in a row or 3rd of 4.
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    Wesneski is one of the MLB starters listed but doesn't get a writeup. Then among the AAA arms Ben Brown gets a nod
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    I might actually be more interested in Kohl's first AA start than Ferris' encore. God there's just so much fun pitching in the system now
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    I think one of the biggest factors with this question is Justin Steele. He's already at 49 innings, while his career high is the 119 he threw last year. I'm not sure what the team's thoughts are on handling him, but I'd be tempted to IL him and skip a start or two. That gives you a bit more time to decide if Wesneski needs some time in Iowa or not.
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    Under my tutelage, the Cubs finally broke their losing streak on Wednesday Now the Cubs head up to Minnesota to begin what might be their toughest road trip of the year Pitching for the Twins is Sonny Gray. He's one of the OG sweeper pitchers, so expect all the lefties including Eric Hosmer and Tucker Barnhart to start tonight Opposing Gray is Drew Smyly, one of Jed's shrewder moves Go Cubs, win two in a row tonight
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    He's hitting a ton of weak fly balls. FG says he's hitting an astronomical 31% pop-ups. There's reason to doubt that specific number (it's a bit in the weeds, but the tl;dr is that MiLB scorers and MLB scorers differ on the semantics of pop-ups vs. flyballs vs. line drives), but he's clearly not hitting the ball with authority often enough. The glass half full is that this is the first step in closing his hole at the top of the zone. Essentially he's gone from not making contact at all to all those belt high fastballs to making poor contact. He's also hitting the ball to the opposite field too much, which I'm guessing is related.
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    Yeah this is awesome! I find myself really eying that Iowa pen. I mentioned it in the gamethread last night but I think Keegan could use a breather in Iowa, and Nick Burdi is absolutely shoving. I'd love to make that swap. And then Horn and Heuer are not far behind. I'd like to see Ross start leaning on Merryweather and Rucker more, and not hiding them in garbage time. They're both pitching well (Merryweather has a sub 3 ERA with peripherals to match after his first outing of the year), but if you can't pitch in even medium leverage spots it's largely for naught. Let them sink/swim and move the line along.
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    Considering he's more or less platooning with Wisdom swapping him for Mastro seems pretty reasonable
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    Wouldn't be opposed to Keegan going down to Iowa and getting right
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    If that's true that's huge. 117 is pretty elite slugger territory.
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    It's a dong party
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    I see you being dominant in relief Ryan Jensen
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    Riley Thompson seems to be formally switching to short relief? I noticed he piggybacked a couple times and didn't go very deep, which I attributed to him getting roughed up. But if today is any indication it looks more intentional than I realized prior
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    Wow Ben did not appreciate me having Wicks ahead of him Also what's with all the Wednesday day games in AAA? Wednesday is my in office day and I swear more than half the time I sit down to eat lunch and there's an Iowa game in progress.
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    The Cubs have lost 3 in a row and 9 of 12 So we're breaking out the big guns The Cards are throwing out their one good starter, Jordan Montgomery. Our offense is going to have its hands full trying to not do anything infuriating The Cubs are countering with Justin Steele, who has been awesome for going on a full year now Go Cubs
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    Across '21 and 22, the Rays were 47-52 in one run games while the Dodgers were 40-39. Please, tell me more about how record in close games is something smart teams are somehow able to control.
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    I like Ross. He clearly takes the long view on the season, and I think that's going to ultimately pay off. Fans are going to hate him because quite frankly a majority of them are so short-sighted I wonder if they lack object permanence. For last night, the bullpen was likely still shredded after Sunday, and as TT pointed out Assad was cruising. He knew just as well as us that he was probably pushing things with Javier. If he'd taken Assad out, his options were Keegan Thompson, Michael Rucker, and a bunch of guys heavily fatigued from this weekend. If/when one of them blew it, my guess is you'd have written essentially this same article.
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    At all? I'd say before Memorial Day. Rattling off 3 or 4 in a row isn't that wild of an idea. For good? Sometime in late June or July. The May/June schedule isn't as brutal as it looked preseason, but it's still tough through that Padres series the first week of June, and while the Angels and Giants aren't all that intimidating its still a West Coast trip and those can be problematic.
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    The team has been really bad about stringing hurt guys along before, but with the off day Thursday and the fortuitous timing of bringing up Morel I don't hate it as long as he's either starting or on the IL for Friday's game in Minnesota.
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