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I don't agree with the analogy. The dude hits home runs in streaks....always has and always will, and when the alternative is a guy who's gotten like 5 hits all year and none of them homers, just because it's a right handed pitcher I'm going with the guy who can run into a homer. And the defensive difference is minimal, neither are all that good defensively. We can agree to disagree and I think we will - but Wisdom should have started last night.
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Wisdom has hit 3 home runs in his last 3 starts. In the long run I agree with your logic but he's the type of player that's feast or famine and when he feasts he hits homers in bunches, just think you gotta ride that for all it's worth when it's happening.
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Yeah, two real head scratchers. Rossi ain't the only manager who overplays the righty/lefty thing - but these two seemed particularly egregious to me.
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Seems like more than 30. I agree the non-stop rotation of announcers is exhausting. I think fans like to connect with their regular announcing team. How many different voices does Marquee roll out during the year?
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I agree, what is the reasoning? How many times have there been Friday night games played at Wrigley in the past. Someone indicated this is only the second - I don't think that is accurate.
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So what is the plan? I mean - I agree one series should not change the plan - but I don't think we're at a point where there is just one plan, do you? Better have multiple plans ready.
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I would think with todays technology he could communicate to any level of detail he wanted to.
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You don't think Ross was communicating with the staff during the game?
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Stroman's last 3 starts.......granted it that ump gives him the strike out he should have last start it might be 2 of 3 shaky starts. Most worried about Smyly's regression.
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Maestro going 2-3 was more surprising than Taillon last night given the previous samples. But yeah, that Smyly struggling so badly against a really struggling Yankee lineup was telling. Yeah, the Donaldson homer seemed flukey, he was fooled and just flicked the bat at it - and Rizzo's hit was a soft liner that's probably caught by at least half of MLB first sackers, but Smyly really labored. That Stanton homer vs. Rucker may have been the cheapest homer I've ever seen. That was a pop up foul ball caught 40 feet from the fence at Wrigley.
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Alzolay has effectively reversed that trend, but he and Taillon are very different pitchers. This problem did not really exist to near this extent for Taillon prior to this year. So, what is the X-factor?
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Why?
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Article: A Win With Endless Implications
CubUgly replied to Matthew Trueblood's topic in North Side Baseball Front Page News
I just think they will hit a bump eventually, their pitching is meh especially without Green and some of those youngsters will either start hitting a wall or adjustments will be found to slow them down. -
Not surprising - Yelich is a very sub-standard right fielder. That he was a finalist for the GG last year was a joke. I know left field is where everyone puts their worst fielders, but even so.....bad reads constantly and a noodle arm.
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It does smell a bit Dusty don't it?
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Hell, yeah - these last two are the type of games we've been losing all year. Finally got some luck going our way the last two games - they say it all evens out - maybe that is what will start to happen. At least I can hope so. The broadcast kept bringing up how Milwaukee is worse than us in almost every statistical category except wins and losses this year. I think over 162 that works itself out.
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I don't think so, he still batted and he played the next night, of course I can't prove that, but one could make that argument to defend the coach on almost any move. Look, I realize managers have information we don't I always try to factor that into my evaluations and opinions. I'm not oblivious. As to "it's good to put a bad fielder in left in Houston because it's quirky", I could not disagree more. The same fly ball Morel botched Happ was waiting under for 3 seconds for a routine catch the next night. I was there for two of the 3 games including the first when Morel was inexplicably (Rossi was never even asked by the press) put in left. And while Morel has played outfield guess where he's played by for the least - you guessed it.....LF. And just to repeat so as not to be misunderstood, I'm not absolving the front office and dismissing roster issues. I'm just saying it can be both - roster construction/development and managing issues. And I think it is both and I do think a different manager would have us in a better position right now in a weak and vulnerable Central. I like Rossi but likes got nothing to do with it.
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I do keep hearing this comparison, but Rizzo was several years younger then Mervis when he was sent back down by the Padres, he was 21. Mervis is 25. That's a fairly significant difference. He'll get another shot, but maybe just one more. You can rationalize it any way you want he was not good the first trip and even in spring training. Let's hope second time is the charm.
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Not a good game to rest Happ, not a good park to rest Happ. And again, Morel a kid who had hardly ever played left anywhere in his baseball career in that left field???? - get Happ a rest back in Wrigley - if he can't play 3 more games shame on him - or better yet don't put Morel in a position to fail miserably. You say let's try to figure out why this happened, I've been trying to figure out what happened. Your explanation honestly doesn't convince me and no one in the press asked Rossi after the game so we still don't know his reasoning. I believe that decision cost us that game. I could do this with SEVERAL other very questionable Rossi decisions and you could come back with your view of a reasonable explanation and we could do that dance all day the rest of the day. Let's just say this - I think we could be several games better than we are now with the same roster and a different manager and right in contention in this division. You don't. We part as friends.
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I would put it like this TT, my baseline expectation is that when you have to win on the margins, which this team has to do - you have less rope to make "inexplicably bad" decisions as a manager. Even given that he's made in my opinion more than most. As one of my examples, I don't know how much inside info was used to put Morel in left in Houston - one of the hardest left fields in all of baseball to play, and a kid that's hardly played left anywhere in his life. That was not a coin flip decision that was black and white don't do this. Again, I could go on an on with what I think are legit WTF decisions, but I get it, we ain't gonna agree here and that's fine - this forum is for debate and discussion and we've done that. I realize the roster limitations I just think Ross has exacerbated that.
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Playing Hosmer as much as he was played, and batting him 5th in the order was on Ross. Playing Mancini at first in England when Belli was available to play first was also on Ross. Man, I can go on an on. I get Jed's/front offices part in this and I don't disagree. Both can be true. But we all knew we'd have to win on the margins with the team we went into this season with and we knew the Central was not that strong. Hell it's been worse than we expected even I think. The division was there for the taking even given the limitations you have laid out. Look at the Brewer's roster - they are one of the worst hitting teams in all of baseball and their pitching has not been as great as advertised and they are what 6 games over .500. They are winning games on the margins. This matters!! That's where managing comes in when your margin for error is small. It ain't all on Rossi but to rationalize his part is leaving a significant part out in my opinion.
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Sorry, I I'll reiterate my take in that I just can't agree with this. Sighting specifics would take me some time but in particular bring Kay in the other day and inexplicably playing Morel in left in Houston were both inexcusable errors in my view. That's two - I could site multiple more in time. I really could go on and on. He really makes some hard to understand decisions that I don't think most managers would make in the same position....and with good reason. Of course we could debate most of them I suppose, but I really think he makes some real head scratchers and he got a pass his first 3 years which you can debate the merits of but it's a fact, so no need rehashing, but he is finally getting some legit questioning at least from the fans, the Cubs press still seems reluctant to question him for the most part which is not all that surprising.
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Not sure I agree that this is not a .500 team even with a good manager. Now would we be able to compete for a WS....no but that's a whole other conversation and then you can dig into Jed's territory and roster construction, development etc. But this team could definitely be competing for the Central Division this year as is and poor and mind boggling managing decisions have played as big a role as anything else in why we are not in my opinion.
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He may end up being the next Schwindell, but yeah - ride that hot streak till it's done.
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Posted Saturday at 04:46 PM 4th of July maybe?? I think we have a winner!!
