Jump to content
North Side Baseball

Jehrico

Verified Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    5,744

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by Jehrico

  1. Jehrico
    They're only .5 games farther behind AZ than Milwaukee is us right now, so their chances are only a little worse than the Crews of winning their division. Their entire schedule is teams who are currently .500 or below, except AZ, so those 6 remaining head-to-heads they have left will be critical. With the Dodgers falling out of it, and the Rockies winning 9 of their last 11, and their remaining cream puff schedule, what are the odds that they do it again?
  2. Jehrico
    I'm confused. You talk about strikeouts to hits, but then all you reference is strikeouts per inning pitched. And how do you come up with a 50/50 chance? I assumed it was a typo when he typed innings, because the number is wrong.
  3. Jehrico
    He's half right, and half wrong. Alot of the fans are tourists. The Cubs have a better nation-wide fan base than anyone else in baseball, thanks to Haray Carey, Steve Stone, and WGN in the 80s. A lot of those "tourists" grew up watching the Cubs on WGN because it was the one game that was always on after school in the 80s no matter where you were. Where he is wrong is most of them aren't just there to check out Wrigley, they're there to watch the Cubs.
  4. Jehrico
    1 - Depends on how Z throws in September, and who we're going against. Regardless, Harden is my #1. 2- I would have preferred Hendry open up the strings a year earlier and got Beltran instead.
  5. Jehrico
    IBL and thats the first thing he's been right about since....well ever. IBL
  6. Jehrico
    If we replace Howry with Guzman, I think our pen is fine. We're not going to get a lefty that is worth a crap from another team at this stage in the game. I'd be happy replacing the one guy who can't get outs with someone who can get lefties or righties out. I like Cotts not because he's done that great this year (he's mediocre in my book, fine for a 6th reliever), but because he has the ability to be effective against lefties or righties on any given night.
  7. Jehrico
    We've got 1036 Ks now to 1088 hits given up. We need to make up 52 ks in just over a month, I don't think that's likely. That would be like getting 5 no hitters with 10Ks in a row, and our current pace wouldn't make up the other two we'd be short. I'd put our odds closer to 5% than 50.
  8. Jehrico
    Anyone else see any irony with '03? Hendry said after the 03 WS was over that he would have called Guzman up late in the year and that he may have made a difference if he were healthy. It looks like he's finally going to get that late-season call to come up and contribute to a post season run afterall...
  9. Jehrico
    45 minutes.
  10. Jehrico
  11. Jehrico
    I'd like to see Cincy trade for Bedard, and watch the fireworks when Dusty tried to get him to throw more than 100.
  12. Jehrico
    Can we get a strikethrough option added for editing text?
  13. Jehrico
    I added on most of the requested players, as far as I could squeeze under the limit. This reset the voting, so everyone, vote again! I increased the number you can vote for from three to five. So, like they say in Chicago....vote early, vote often! One other thing, I enabled revoting, so if another player because worthy of hating on later, you can come back and change your vote. Let's see where this is after the WS.
  14. Jehrico
    We also might have 6 pitchers in double digits for wins. That's not to say wins has any worth at all as a stat, but it's got to be pretty rare that more than 5 guys reach 10 wins on a team in the same year.
  15. Jehrico
    depends on your point of view. Im sure bird fans are rolling.
  16. Jehrico
    What worries me is that they are playing teams that care about winning. Teams that will be playing for their playoff lives. That makes more a difference than anything. Uh, how can you possibly say that you don't care if you're playing whether against a team that wants to win at all costs or bunch of minor league call ups and journeymen? Considering our penchant for playing up or down to the competition, this might be a good thing.
  17. Jehrico
    :rotfl: Wow, I could almost understand it if that letter was from when they hired Dusty. But it's from this month. How can they possibly still use this as a selling point? Entering today he was at .523, and if he stays with the Reds much longer he'll go under .500 for his career (105 games over entering today). Even if he stays on for the last two years of his contract and loses 100 games those years, he wouldn't fall under .500. If you lose 100, that means you won 62. Over the next two years, that's a net of -76 games, leaving him another 29 to go. He'd have to lose every game for the rest of this year, then lose 100 twice to get down to .500. He'll have to get extended by Cincy to fall under .500 with them, which is pretty unlikely.
  18. Jehrico
    Maybe he should talk to Z. When Z would get excited, he would overthrow and get hit hard when he was younger (still does it sometimes, though not as much). Z can dial his sinker up into the mid to high 90s if he wants to, but it straightens out. He really started dominating with it when he realized he needed to keep it around 90-92 to get the best effect from it. I wonder if the same lesson would apply to Samardzija... :-k Maybe as a starter to preserve strength. But as a reliever, he regularly gets a lot of movement on that 95 mph sinker. Not sure why you'd want to slow it down. Right now, I wouldn't mess with it (i.e. don't fix it if it ain't broke). But the article suggests his sinker doesn't sink that much, and as Z has proven, a slightly faster, straighter sinker is easier to hit than a slightly slower one with alot more drop. If he slows down, then maybe this is something worth looking at (possibly in next ST).
  19. Jehrico
    Just to see if anyone still hated him.
  20. Jehrico
    Ankiel is on there under "all of the other Cards." You can only list so many people on one poll, can't make everyone happy.
  21. Jehrico
    do you really think that could happen? MLB has dumber rules...
  22. Jehrico
    I thought I had included Lee, and forgot about Renteria. I don't understand why Giles would be on the list.
  23. Jehrico
    What players do you hate the most? Why? Vote for up to FIVE. Let me know if there's someone else that absolutely has to go on the list. Edit: I didn't think there was enough hate going on here, so I restarted it with the requested players added (can't change voting options without restarting the vote anyways). I took off those who had no votes thus far to keep it under the limit of 30. Also upped the voting to 5 per so we can get more votes for hate going on here.
  24. Jehrico
    Maybe he should talk to Z. When Z would get excited, he would overthrow and get hit hard when he was younger (still does it sometimes, though not as much). Z can dial his sinker up into the mid to high 90s if he wants to, but it straightens out. He really started dominating with it when he realized he needed to keep it around 90-92 to get the best effect from it. I wonder if the same lesson would apply to Samardzija... :-k
  25. Jehrico
    Has anyone heard any rumors on who the other PTBNL is? Also, what is the deadline for the PTBNL to be sent over? I'll be pissed if AZ gets to use Owings and Dunn in the playoffs then they send Owings to the Reds after the postseason.
×
×
  • Create New...