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  1. Bertz
    Not actually that bad from a run standpoint, but hilarious that basically every call against the Dodgers happened in the bottom of the 9th
  2. Bertz
    Hopefully Hayden can have a good game. The pitch modeling data is unmoved on thinking he's a star, so hopefully he just needs to beat up on a team to get his swagger back. Although for as bad as Oakland is their offense has been okay thus far its the pitching that has been nightmarish
  3. Bertz
    I think it's quite the opposite honestly. The Cubs' pen at the moment has the 2nd lowest FIP in the league and are tied for the best xFIP. The problem is a distinct lack of a lockdown option. Fulmer and Alzolay have each shown signs of being that guy, and Estrada's probably the favorite to end up that guy by mid-season, but right it's depth over impact. Put another way, I'd trust any of the Cubs relievers with a 3 run save, but I don't trust any of them in a one-run deal.
  4. Bertz
    The ump scorecard for this game is gonna be a doozy
  5. Bertz
    Really enjoyed Boog putting Sutcliffe on blast for not understanding how to do an ad read
  6. Bertz
    That's Bellinger's hardest hit ball since the shoulder injury
  7. Bertz
    After today Ballesteros is hitting .250/.367/.500 with 5 walks and 6 Ks Cristian Hernandez is hitting .350/.409/.600 with 2 walks and 4 Ks
  8. Bertz
    McGeary doesn't seem long for SB. Maybe it's just a hot streak but honestly feels more like he's just too advanced.
  9. Bertz
    It's largely procedural I doubt he boarded a plane but Nelly got "sent down" last night for Hughes FWIW
  10. Bertz
    I have zero issues with any of the pitching decisions or performances last night. Guys executed, they got BABIP'd in the ninth and that's all she wrote. It sucks but there's not really much to take away from it IMO. But yeah, we need to clean up the position player group, and start with ending the Hosmer era. Mervis can wait a beat, they're about to face a stretch with a ton of lefties, but I want Hosmer gone after Bellinger's paternity stint. Nelly Velazquez should come up today for Bellinger, and then stay up via Hosmer. I'd also like to see Torrens get some run here. If/when he can't get it going against this stretch of lefties, it'll be clear there's not really anything there and then we can start Mervis time. Morel can wait a bit. His swing and miss hasn't really improved at all. He's hitting the ball in the air, which is great, but there's still work to do.
  11. Bertz
    His .421 OPS thus far?
  12. Bertz
    That's such a crummy blown slave. None of those balls were hit that hard
  13. Bertz
    That felt like the first time this year I felt Keegan was fully back. Had the full velo and the breaking pitches working. He's had great results to this point but it felt a little smoke and mirrors-y when he was sitting 92-93.
  14. Bertz
    It seems like at this point JD never makes the west coast trips? Not sure if that's a JD preference or if they need give Sutcliffe X number of games and they decided might as well choose the West Coast trips?
  15. Bertz
    Wonder if Hughes is going to be allowed into a game this tight right away. This block of lefties is going to come back around at least one more time, and presumably it'll be really late.
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  17. Bertz
    That Taillon sinker is nasty. Eno Sarris wrote about it a bit earlier this week
  18. Bertz
    Wowza that was a hell of a catch from Bellinger
  19. Bertz
    IIRC the sub scap was one of Prior's last injuries
  20. Bertz
    I'd be ecstatic to end up with Carter. I feel like so many "how the hell did he fall so far" situations are "Well, he was a top 5 pick on February 1st but then the league spent 2 months picking nits and overthinking it and he dropped." This does make me more mad we didn't address RT in FA. I feel like if we end up with Carter, the next move should be to use 53 and 61 to jump back up and grab a tackle. If Poles had addressed RT, he could have just let Day 2 come to him.
  21. Bertz
    Taillon actually pitched well last time out. Hopefully this is the start where balls start finding gloves.
  22. Bertz
    It definitely feels like Steel has leveled up this season. One thing I didn't like about Steele last year and really made me skeptical of him was his inability to hold his velo through starts. He'd regularly hit 95 in the first inning or two of games, but he'd be gassed and regularly be living in the 80's by like the 4th inning. Last night he didn't start regularly falling into the 80's until the 6th. And even then he was 89-92, not 87-90 like he got to at points last year. That more consistent velo along with some of the things you talked about in terms of understanding his arsenal and the plan of attack with it better appears to be allowing him to work deeper into games. I don't buy his sparkling ERA at all. But the peripherals are a little bit improved, and he's working WAY deeper into games. Last year he was a fringey #2 SP but for only 5 IP per start. Now he might just be a #2 SP, no qualifiers or caveats required?
  23. Bertz
    We used to say "good pitching day" when two or more of our half dozen legitimate pitching prospects were going on the same day. Now that we have closer to like 15 legitimate pitching prospects damn near every day is "good pitching day," so I don't really post that anymore. I like this way better
  24. Bertz
    It's still so wild how....mortal this Dodgers team is. Like it's good, don't get me wrong. But it's basically a .500 team plus the monster trio of Freeman/Betts/Smith. By their estremely lofty standards it's almost kind of embarrassing.
  25. Bertz
    Statcast says 109. Unless this was like pregame or something
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