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Yes, very disappointing - Friday 1-16 with RISP and Saturday blew a 4-2 lead with two out and nobody on. Just have to win one of those.
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Boyd's under the hood numbers have not been great? The Seattle pitcher's numbers look pretty good large sample size.
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I mean - you could kinda see it coming honestly. Several, small but for me fairly bright red flags last year. But I didn't see it being this bad, this soon.
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Was it because he got our only two hits yesterday?
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Yeah, I mean - Urquidy is a solid, not great, MLB pitcher who is having maybe his worst year this year. There is just no way he should shut the Cubs out over 7 innings on a day game at Wrigley, wind blowing in or not. I know how random baseball is, yada....yada...yada. It's just frustrating, you feel like before the game - give the Sox 3 runs you'd feel pretty good.....at least I would.
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I have not given up on Cabrera long term, I still think the ceiling is high, but I don't think it's happening this year. Whatever our pitching guys tried did not really work, I think they will need to re-calibrate next year.
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I think he burned some bridges with the Cubs too. I of course have no direct information, just reading between the lines.
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I had some extended family who are Astro fans, when I saw him at Cub Convention I told them "it didn't look like he wanted to be there" they said no - that's just his personality. So I gave him that. If it was any one thing like above in total I would say - yeah it's a personality thing. But a lot of little things added up for me - and we've gone through many of them here - that just added up for me to too many little things and you could maybe rationalize most, but it added up to too much for me. And it just did not seem to me he would age well and that injuries would probably always affect his performance to perhaps a higher degree than the average player. I think that's kind of playing out now.
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Man, I was ecstatic when we signed him. But I'm so glad he's gone. I don't think he wanted to be here and purely my own perception, I don't think the Cubs from management, front office down to the players wanted him to be here either, so it worked out - and with the Dodgers grossly overpaying him it worked out even better.
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I'm honestly o.k. with it - dude is getting paid a LOT of $$ - you are open to criticism when you are getting paid to do what Pete is but in reality, are producing less than Conforto.
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Dodgers have terrible luck with relievers, They paid big $$ for Tanner Scott and Yates last year and Diaz this year and all were terrible. Scott and Yates were unusable in the post season, but they have so much monopoly money they had 3 big money starters in reserve they could plug in the for the post-season and do better, so......
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I'm really intrigued and excited about this new pitch, and absolutely setting myself up for disappointment, but I can't help it.
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Yeah, I just find Bruce will post opinions on what they might our should do disguised as news sometimes. Was this sourced info and/or did Bruce site sources said this or was it just deep thoughts by Bruce Levine?
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I could see Cabrera being a good bullpen option - but my Levine trust meter is not at 100% on scoop.
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So, Cabrera is about to be activated, and we've been told Brown will be back this year and we expect Palencia will be back fairly soon as well. Thornton, Theilbar and Civale out? Or do they send Assad down to stay stretched and if so which of the 3 stays?
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Exactly, not so very long ago we were talking about how if the Brewers played .500 ball the rest of the year we'd have to post some ridiculous record to catch them by the end of the season. Well, we're not even halfway through August and they are going into LA for a 4 game series only 3 up!!!! Man, it's happening.
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Cabrera's last two rehab outings have been intriguing. I've seen some chatter of a new pitch in the mix that may be a game changer?
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The eye test has not been as affirming as I'd hoped it would be. That was flat out batting practice last night - even the outs were rockets. The numbers I saw his last 15 outings in LA are not quite jibing with what I've seen so for here, but small sample size so.......
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Agreed, I think he has shown the ability to learn new positions quickly and play at an at worst an average level and likely better and his athleticism plays well in the outfield too.
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Why is Happ still in the starting lineup?
CubUgly replied to CubFaninPA's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Agreed, this streak needs to be more like the rest of the month rather than 2-6 games - but the contact in these last two games was welcome because he was having trouble even foul tipping balls in the couple of weeks prior. -
Swing and miss is always better I agree. He got away with two hangers to Caglianoni in one at bat yesterday as JD pointed out, and the pitch to Marte is about the only pitch and place you could throw it to Marte in order to give up a homer to him as he is definitely on the downside of his career. But the guy keeps posting, and giving us 6 to 7 so either he's having a long streak of good luck or he's doing something that is netting positive results other than whiffs. Of course all things being equal I'd love more whiffs of course.
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Zobrist played a lot of positions, but none at a high or above average level in my opinion - adequate and servicable would be my observation. I would say the same for KB. Javi played above average defense at multiple positions and I agree he doesn't get the shine for that that even KB gets and certainly not Zo.
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Why is Happ still in the starting lineup?
CubUgly replied to CubFaninPA's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
His first at bat was right in line with all his at bats the last week or so, he looked nowhere close to getting a hit. The second at bat was in my memory the first hard contact he'd gotten in about a week. I was so happy for him getting the home run and double. He has long been on the extreme hot and cold streaks his hold career. I hope this season ends with one of those hot streaks. But he has never hit as bad right handed as he has this year. -
Cubs (Holmes) vs Royals (Lugo): 8/8/26, 6:10pm
CubUgly replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
The chemistry is better but still not good, because it was so painfully awful at first. Alex still comes across too often as trying to say things to get JD to like him rather than to make the broadcast better. Did he do the games by himself in Iowa? He seems to have similar issues with others he works with but it seems more pronounced with JD. -
Cubs (Holmes) vs Royals (Lugo): 8/8/26, 6:10pm
CubUgly replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Yeah, Tucker until just the last week are two was a below league average hitter, 2/3 into a full season. Plus, how he won a GG in Houston I'll never know - I never say anything while he was here that indicated he was anything but at best average defensively - and I'M being nice. The defensive metrics seemed to back that.
