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Looked at the June schedule. No above .500 teams except the Brewers at the end of the month. Pretty easy schedule to make up some ground. We even get the W Sox.
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Alzolay is apparently dealing with the same forearm injury issue he had last season. Of note is that he's been terrible since coming back from that initial IL stint, both last Sept/Oct and 2024. I really hope the Cubs didn't ruin him by overpitching him last summer. Leiter got hurt too late last year and Merryweather barely lasted a week this season. Could be random injuries but c'mon. Do better Cubs.
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The likelihood that this offense remains near the very bottom of the league in scoring runs as it has in May is virtually zero. Happ, Suzuki, Swanson have been horribly slumping, plus Busch, and Gomes and Amaya can't hit any worse, and Morel and Tauchman have been sputtering. They should all have a better June if they regress at all back to the mean.
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It's troubling how this season is turning out pretty similar to last season. Though big summer ahead apparently haha. I still think this team goes as far as the pen will take them. Luckily with additions of Brown, Wicks, and eventually possibly Horton, there seems to be more overall pitching depth than last year, which will help the pen.
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Credit to Goldschmidt, Assad put 2 pitches in his happy zone, and one was right over the heart of the plate.
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As of now it looks pretty good. Forecast has been changing by the hour though.
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What Does the Future Hold for Brennen Davis?
Stratos replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I think he's still one of the best hitters and position players in the system in terms of talent. The injuries are obviously the major concern. A hot streak might not be enough for a recall, give him at least 200 PA's in Iowa I say.- 3 replies
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They have some SP issues. But the offense and pen are solid. Unlike the Cubs they got back talent for Burnes they could plug into the lineup instead of waiting 5 years for them to reach the majors.
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There's too much talent for them to spin their wheels for much longer. If the offense wasn't in a terrible funk in May with injuries etc we'd have won a whole bunch of games. Busch needs a couple of days off.
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Cubs u gotta score more than 3 off Mikolas.
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Leiter knew he didn't have his stuff or command the moment he took the mound.
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I'm not talking about stats. I'm talking about Steele looking physically gassed. If you want stats we can point to him having 173 IP last year, which is a lot more than the 119 IP he had the year before, his previous career high. We can also point too the fact that the most ER Steele gave up in a game last year was 6, and he did that only twice and both came in 2 of his 3 last starts of the year, one being Pittsburgh. Not to mention Justin's tongue hanging out of his mouth.
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Well Steele looked physically tired, career high in IP last year. Other pen guys were just overpitched during the summer and got hurt.
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Maybe they want Imanaga vs the Brewers, and also want a more rested pen for the series too. Pitching Assad will save them Brown, Wesneski, Smyly potentially from multi-innings on Sunday.
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The Cubs pitching staff faded down the stretch last year, including some key pen injuries, and I remember Steele looking pretty gassed. I'm all for giving the guys a bit extra rest at different times throughout the year, including position guys. Seems the same reason with Horton's late ramp up. Cubs seemed to have learned their lesson from last year.
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That's a great question, i don;t know for certain. It doesn't say who is carrying the game on my MLB.tv app on my TV, it says "no broadcast available" actually, for both today and tomorrow's game, I assume because of national coverage. Geez I hope I get to watch them on mlb.tv There's not usually multiple broadcasts (home vs away feeds) available when there's a national broadcast.
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I think we could be happy with say up to -4 OAA the rest of the season for Morel at 3B, given this is his 1st season in a long time at 3B. If he's somewhere between 0 and -2 next year (if he were to play 3B full time) that would be fantastic. We need some patience here, and possibly with Busch offensively as well.
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How do you check fielding/OAA by date for a player? I tried fangraphs but it doesn't seem to do fielding by custom date range for 2024.
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And let's remember we can't use the fangraphs def rating because it's counting his time at DH against him.
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There's always the option to play Bellinger at 1B and Tauchman in CF like last year, if Busch continues his poor hitting. Busch has had a 40 K% in May. In sure they don't want to send him to AAA, nothing left for him there, they want to give him every chance here. Morel has been better defensively though from April and ST at least. His May defensive numbers aren't good though either. I'd just keep playing him there at least until Shaw is ready. The patience and growing pains may pay off with reps. If he still sucks when Shaw gets the call then he's a DH or a the world's worst fielding super sub.
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Hoping Amaya can hit better at some point. He's a good receiver, but his pop-time is terrible. If he can't hit then he's a backup catcher on a good team. Verdict very much out on prospect Moises B. defensively. I'm sure they have to grab a catcher this winter to replace Gomes anyways.
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Vasquez is very good defensively. He might even hit better than Madrigal. He can't hit worse.
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The Cubs generally haven't seemed to put much emphasis on acquiring velo guys. As an org they seem to like quirky fastballs, command, funky deliveries, splitters/changeups, rather than Drivelining every pitcher to the stratosphere, especially SP.
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May stats: Cubs are 27th in MLB in runs scored (Braves are 28th haha), Cubs are 8th in ERA and FIP. Pen has dramatically improved in May. In April the main issue as a pen staff was BB/9. May pen stats: 2.92 BB/9, 10.90 K/9, 0.89 HR/9. 3.55 ERA and 3.13 FIP. Neris, Leiter, Brown, Wesneski, Tyson Miller have all pitched very well. Miller hasn't given up an ER in 5.1 IP. Hodge with a promising debut. Cubs offense should break out of the slump eventually, especially with everyone now healthy (Morel walking wounded?). Things looking positive going forward for the team for now.
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Watched an interview on Youtube with the Iowa play-by-play guy. He thinks the initial control issues that Horton has had and Brown had last year could be due to transition between different balls in AA to AAA. He also said Horton is apparently working in a split more that is looking like another potential out pitch for him. His velo drop is interesting, with all these injuries from flamethrowers and spikes in velo i'm wondering if the Cubs are telling him to ease off the fb a little, especially while still early in the season building up and still not far from TJ?
