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  1. Bertz
    *Sigh*
  2. Bertz
    Man, Rea looks great out of the pen. I know the team didn't really have other options last weekend, but keep him as a 1 inning guy. He's 90-93 as a starter but 93-96 as a reliever. With his command that's a legit late inning arm
  3. Bertz
    I tend to think he could be good still if he embraced being a junkballer. Like he's still 75% FB/Cutter/Sinker and 25% Curve/Change. I'd like him to get that closer to 50/50, primarily at the expense of the four seamer.
  4. Bertz
    Holy horsefeathers I didn't know the Phillies' bullpen had a 8.07 ERA until I went to MLBTR to read up on this more.
  5. Bertz
    I think that’s a good thing for us. Bury the Reds. The cardinals are going to die on their death march, they have a double header a week the rest of the way and 2 weeks with 2 double headers and only 2 off days. That also gives us some margin to win only 2 of 5 in cincy next weekend. Yeah I think in a short season the Reds scare me more. That front three in the rotation and a dong heavy offense probably doesn't keep up with the Cards for 162 but for 60 and in the playoffs it's way scarier.
  6. Bertz
    Good article, honestly laughed out loud at the title too
  7. Bertz
    In a sane world the Cubs should lose this one and win the next two pretty handily. But I feel like whenever the pitching matchups are this obvious weird horsefeathers happens.
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    Were his cutter and slider always as nasty as they appear to be? There seems to be a ton of movement, without checking pitch FX. They were, they basically Jake’d him and said “hey your slider and cutter are good and grade out well, throw it more idiot.” It also doesn't hurt that it's starting to look like Hottovy is the Dave Duncan of cutters
  10. Bertz
    That was not quite vintage Kimbrel, but that was basically 2016/2018 Kimbrel
  11. Bertz
    My guess is this is Underwood's swan song. Probably finishes this game out and then Alzolay stays up after the DH
  12. Bertz
    Sounds like Flaherty isn't super stretched out, and Game 2 is another bullpen game with Austin Gomber being the starter. If Mills pitches well enough to keep it close for at least as long as Flaherty is in the game, that would set things up really nicely for a doubleheader sweep.
  13. Bertz
    This game has been kind of an unwatchable slog on the offense's end, but I don't hate grinding the Card's bullpen into dust the day before a doubleheader
  14. Bertz
    That's one of the more aesthetically pleasing dongs I've seen in quite some time
  15. Bertz
    While I would prefer much more contact, I have less of a problem when it's be paired with walks like it has been in this series.
  16. Bertz
    He's been playing at a ~7 win pace since coming back up last year, and that's before tonight
  17. Bertz
    Man Darvish is so good. I've been trying to figure out, with the obvious exception of Arrieta, when's the last time we've had a pitcher on a run as good as what Darvish has done since last May? Peak Mark Prior?
  18. Bertz
    4840 as of this AM. I imagine there will be a good bit of turnover this winter, but that's probably far enough out to still be more like 2022
  19. Bertz
    Cubs bullpen has a 3.32 ERA (6th) and 3.17 FIP (4th) over the last two weeks. I certainly don't think it's a good pen, but I think now that Ross has had some time to figure guys out down there it's gotten to adequate. We really need Kimbrel's gains to be real. Even if he's no longer historically great, if he's merely good that helps a ton. Tepera looks GOOD, and while there's certainly some luck involved Jeffress is starting to look pretty good too. Sadler has also been great since his first clunker of an appearance. Wick and Ryan are still finding it, but don't look irrevocably broken. It's a decent group now that Winkler and Underwood have been identified as the weak links. Replace them with more talented guys, probably one via trade and one with one of the live arms down at South Bend (the dream is Marquez or Carraway doing some rookie David Price/K-Rod things), and suddenly you've got a pen you can go pretty far with.
  20. Bertz
    That's really helpful. That's mostly what I had assumed, but it hadn't yet occurred to me that there are very unlikely to be games on 9/28. I guess the remaining question is if/how long the break is between the WC round and the DS. But I'll be probably do 9/29-10/5 figure that covers me for everything except maybe the 4th day of the DS.
  21. Bertz
    Do we know, assuming it happens, the playoff schedule? I know the regular season ends 9/27, but not sure how this new first round works. Is it right away on Monday? Basically my PTO is use it or lose it, and since I can't actually travel I want to take time during that period where there's weekday playoff baseball. Under the old format 9/29-9/30 would be the wildcard games at night, with 10/2 and 10/5 being the potential four game days. But under this format should I assume that entire week is going to be packed with games?
  22. Bertz
    I took the over on 4.5 strikeouts for Lindblom today so you all can thank me for the reverse jinx
  23. Bertz
    I think it means he has been overtaken as the 7th/8th starter. Hopefully that's because Alzolay or somebody else has looked good and rather than Cotton looking bad.
  24. Bertz
    Curious if Hader and/or Peralta are available. 35 pitches probably warrants two days off, but if you're the Brewers and have a tight lead late today it'd be pretty hard to resist the temptation. Although honestly Suter is the scariest arm in that pen for me at this point, so very relieved to have him out of the mix.
  25. Bertz
    Ugh, that sucks. Reading about it though doesn't sound too bad, he should hopefully be back before the deadline. He might be limited to DH duty, which while not ideal isn't a huge issue here, and may be worth it if that lowers the asking price.
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