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  1. 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.
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    It's so weird after the last few years that I basically can't wait to turn every game over to the pen
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    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
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    We know for sure Sogard is one. His wife threw a fit on Instagram about it.
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    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?
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
  9. Bertz
    So, this bullpen is horsefeathering good
  10. Bertz
    This is a good state of play from Keith Law's latest article this morning
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    Cubs won their third in a row last night on the back of a stellar start from Trevor Williams. When asked after the game what changed going from the Pirates to the Cubs he offered up one difference Tonight is Adbert Alzolay's first start of the year. He was incredible late last year, so here's hoping it carries over. If he stays that good we might start referring to his starts as AlzoDAY Taking the mound for the Brewers is Freddy Peralta. He's been kind of crappy as a starter in his career but great in middle relief. Because of that he's known as "Middle Relief Freddy," or MR F for short Let's Go
  13. Bertz
    Alec Mills tonight
  14. Bertz
    Assuming they don't score more runs, I wonder if we get Kimbrel or Workman in the 9th
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    Really like the steal attempt there. You are not threading a bunch of hits together off of Williams
  17. Bertz
    Williams had some nagging injuries in the spring and hasn't pitched yet this year, so here's to continued rust
  18. Bertz
    Adam sucked to start last season too. I wonder if he needs that mid-season 95+ MPH velocity to be the monster he was late last year
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  20. Bertz
    Wow that Javy ball was smoked. 104 MPH to the opposite field
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  22. Bertz
    The Brewers are very much a run prevention team, but still Trevor Williams looks great (and so does Willson's glove)
  23. Bertz
    If I would have known Dempster was on this broadcast I would not have burned the "Forced Laughing" gif prior to the game
  24. Bertz
    Already dreading him being one of like 4 aces on the Dodgers in 2024
  25. Bertz
    I think it's partly that Tyler Anderson from game 2 has a (modest) reverse split and mostly that Ross is trying to do that thing where he gets all his bench guys into games early in the year.
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