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  1. Bertz
    The one thing keeping him from being NL Mike Trout was contact, and early on his K rate is down to 15%. He's incredible.
  2. Bertz
    Jason Adam's early season wobbliness is gone, so that's one positive from this weekend?
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    Brothers has a nearly 8:1 KBB, could be interestingNot in his walk year. Yeah we have him next year as well. I imagine with so may walk year guys, they won't really shop guys controlled beyond this year except for Kimbrel. But Brothers, Trevor Williams, and Contreras are all only under contract through next season so they'd likely be available at least theoretically.
  4. Bertz
    Maybe we’ll get more value starting our sell off in June vs July It's really possible. I think if nothing else, the Cubs have 10 (!) guys in their walk year that depending on performance could be attractive trade chips. KB Rizzo Baez Joc Kimbrel (club option) Davies Arrieta Chafin Workman Tepera If the team is out of it, you probably want to clear the deck a bit in June or early July so you're not juggling ~5 trades the week before the deadline.
  5. Bertz
    Cubs next 22 games are brutal 3 @ Milwaukee 3 vs Atlanta 3 vs Mets 3 vs Milwaukee 4 @ Atlanta 3 @ Cincy 3 vs Dodgers The Cubs are either going to get their horsefeathers together, or they're going to be out of it by Cinco de Mayo
  6. Bertz
    They deserved to have this overturned. Hitting the ball 86 MPH on the ground on a 3-0 count is horsefeathering inexcusable
  7. Bertz
    It scored a run, but that was a horrendous decision by Rizzo. Just awful.
  8. Bertz
    All three of Tepera/Workman/Adam need to get in this game. We need to get at least one of them in a good place as the primary RH setup man til Wick is back.
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    Musgrove, Williams, Taillon have all looked incredible early on, so you can't even really just blame the old regime.
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    So I was perusing Rex Brothers' FG page, and if you want reason for optimism, back when he was good with the Rockies, he threw just over 50% of his pitches in the zone. This year he's right back to that level. HOWEVER, the most he's ever been in the zone was 2017 with the Braves, and he got smacked around. So it'll still take some time to find out if he can get back to throwing an adequate number of strikes AND limiting contact. I'm certainly happy to give him another few weeks as the second lefty.
  13. Bertz
    14, 9, 0, and 0 now Of the balls in play, only one was hit over 90 MPH. That was a 90.1 MPH groundball yesterday
  14. Bertz
    DIRTY CRAIG
  15. Bertz
    Winkler's good at the whole soft contact thing, but he's just so bad at controlling the zone (both throwing strikes and missing bats). It's sort of impossible to ever truly have faith in him.
  16. Bertz
    LOL Javy It's valuable to have a hitter in your lineup who can do some real wildcard stuff like that. I think it's tougher in this lineup because there's already so much RH swing and miss.
  17. Bertz
    It's so weird after the last few years that I basically can't wait to turn every game over to the pen
  18. Bertz
    hes been the best hitter on the team this year. not that its saying much Haha...that is a sad but true statement and I stand corrected (despite the paltry .200 avg). Yeah there's bad process and there's bad results. Everyone currently has bad results right now, but I feel like Bryant, Heyward, and Willson have had good process (and as I type that Willson takes a called strike 3...l
  19. Bertz
    We know for sure Sogard is one. His wife threw a fit on Instagram about it.
  20. Bertz
    I’m not going to overreact to a weeks worth of games or anything but it’s not like 2016 or 2017 where we knew the Cubs were an amazing team and they’d get it together. I don’t think this team will be terrible (unless they are sellers in July) and there are some promising signs like the pitching overall but no lock that they will end up being good Yeah at worst I figure they will tread around the .500 mark unless they start selling off as you say. I think this is the thing I'm most curious about. Jed has talked a big game about selling even if the team is mediocre at the deadline. But we're at 2.5 years of big talk with the only change being the Schwarber/Joc swap. Theo clearly wasn't willing to break up the band, but does Jed actually have the stones to sell if they're .500 and like three games out in late July?
  21. Bertz
    Yeah I wish Ross would have started at least one of Sogard/Wolters yesterday. Peralta has much starker splits than Woodruff, and doing both the same day makes this trend too much toward a Dusty Sunday Surrender Lineup
  22. Bertz
    They've been BABIP'd really hard. Coming into tonight a .155 despite being 6th in the league in exit velocity. I'm not too worried, though I certainly don't think it's a great lineup anymore. “anymore” implies it was a great lineup recently Do you consider August-ish of 2018 recent? :lol: This bullpen though. Coming into tonight they had struck out a third of the guys they faced and generated a 50% groundballs rate. Those numbers have both gone up. They have walked too many guys (though a lot of that was just opening day), but if you're getting that many K's and grounders you can pretty much walk as many guys as you want.
  23. Bertz
    And this lineup is somehow horrible They've been BABIP'd really hard. Coming into tonight a .155 despite being 6th in the league in exit velocity. I'm not too worried, though I certainly don't think it's a great lineup anymore.
  24. Bertz
    So, this bullpen is horsefeathering good
  25. Bertz
    This is a good state of play from Keith Law's latest article this morning
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