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Astros (Teng) vs Cubs (Rea): 5/23/26, 1:20pm
chibears55 replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
He can play 2B with Hoerner at SS , i think Nico can handle a few groundballs🙄 -
Astros (Teng) vs Cubs (Rea): 5/23/26, 1:20pm
chibears55 replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Only change in lineup is Happ is out, it ok to say chibears was right..lol J/K maybe 🤔 😂 Hopefully moving a couple guys around brings better results, bottom line , no matter where you hit, you still gotta produce. Kinda strange not to see at least Ramirez in lineup over Swanson, but this is Counsell we're talking about 🤷 -
Astros (Teng) vs Cubs (Rea): 5/23/26, 1:20pm
chibears55 replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Lol, you'd think hed play them but as we see, hes not . I mean sometimes players need to feel a little sense of urgency when theres a team struggle, and one way I've seen over the years managers do is just bench guys for a few days and play the bench or young guys that gets called up. Makes zero sense why at least Ramirez isnt in the lineup today. Counsell a head scratcher with his decisions most of time -
Astros (Teng) vs Cubs (Rea): 5/23/26, 1:20pm
chibears55 replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Let's see how much of a lineup change Counsell does this weekend with Ramirez and Alcantara -
Awesome, lets see what he and Ramirez can do
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They are the 2 that are struggling the worse right now, and they need more then 1 regular day off. You bring Alcantara up, he can play all 3 outfield spots to give all 3 days off, and Ramirez can give Swanson, Bregman, and Nico days off. But the key thing is right now, Counsell needs to shake up the lineup, so if that means playing Alcantara and Ramirez the next couple days over Happ and Swanson then so be it, maybe it the gut punch the whole team needs to get it going again.
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It more about benching the major leaguer who hasn't done much of anything the last couple weeks for a couple days to take a breath and just let someone else play LF. Nobody expecting Alcantara to go on a tear over the weekend and wally pip Happ, but sometimes giving guys a few days off that been struggling helps. You can love Happ all you want, heck I want him to hit so my team can win games, but he has sucked for about a month now (25 games) Average has dropped from 250 to 215 OPS has dropped from 883 to 783 He has K 41 times in those 25 games
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Bench Swanson and Happ this weekend
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Ballesteros would be going down if Alcantara comes up
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Maybe today was the big kick in the assss this team needed to wake the fuk up and get going. Win these next 2 then go to Pittsburgh and St Louis and take care of them like they should.
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Bench both for a couple games. Send Ballesteros down and bring up Alcantara and let him rotate around the OF. Play Nico at SS and Ramirez at 2B.
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New lineup tomorrow
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Someone needs to go
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That 20-3 is slowly disappearing, 2-9 now The pitching is bad as it is, but when they do get a decent game from them, the hitting sucks. Wonder if Hoyer has balls enough to fire Counsell and maybe try to ignite something that way
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Lol, what competitive ABs those were
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Fake rally or just a simple 1-2-3 inning from the middle guys
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Swanson should just be a defensive replacement late in games 😂
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They can get a million men on base, means nothing if you dont get them home. That why they have 4 guys high on that list of leaving RISP
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Why so aggressive Nico ? Damn
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Got a break, high throw Come on Nico
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Swanson can get himself an overnight pass from fans if he can get ahold of one year 😂
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Pat, Cubs do nothing lol
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Nobody on base, let's go Happ
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If anyone deserves to be benched for a week its him, maybe just play Hoerner at SS and see what Pedro can do at 2B
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Right, I wouldn't count on Jed really going over the top with trades. Knowing him, he'll play the Steele and Boyd returning as a special addition to the rotation to avoid going after a truly big arm. And yeh, i can see like last season him getting minor tweaks for the pen and bench if he does anything, I really doubt hes trading his top 2-3 prospects in a big move. I wonder more what he'll do if things dont actually improve again by July. The pitching isnt going to get any better or that much better then what it is now, and they dont have any possible savior they can bring up. The bats will or should be better but will it be enough or consistent enough to carry them.
