Stratos
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Why is Tauchman DH'ing and Suzuki in RF? Should be the opposite.
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Red (Lodolo) vs Cubs (Brown): 6/2/24, 1:20pm
Stratos replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
But Mookie Betts is signed to a contract until the year 2032, until about age 40 for him. The Dodgers aren't paying 30m for 6 WAR, it's a lot higher than that. Happ, Cody, Suzuki we have signed through their prime years, and Swanson for maybe 3-4 seasons outside his prime years. Nobody should be judging those contracts or those player decisions based on April and May of one season. How many of us wouldn't have taken those 4 players before the season started? -
Acquiring a new catcher could improve some things, but also we need to consider how it would affect the pitching staff and pitching results bringing in a new guy we probably want to catch most of the time who doesn't know the pitchers. With catching I think we're screwed unless there's someone in the minors they want to try who has experience working with some of the guys or from ST. Amaya is also out of options.
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The only sucking that's potentially likely to continue over the rest of the reason is our catchers, and possibly our pen especially if there's more pitching injuries. So right now I think the FO should do nothing except keep their eyes looking at the reliever and maybe catcher market and waiver wire for help or depth. Busch may also just not be able to hit well enough as an MLB'er, who knows, but we have Bellinger as backup. The hitting in May is very likely just bad luck so not much else to do but wait for guys to hit better.
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5/31 Reds (Ashcraft) @ Cubs (Assad) 1:20 PM CT
Stratos replied to Bertz's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Stuff happens, the part that PO'd me was Swanson just gave up. I'm mean not terrible if you're between 1st and 2nd but if you're 40 ft from home plate you run the home and hope the throw hits you in the back or something. The 9th inning Madrigal play....i give credit to the LF and De La Cruz for executing perfectly. But with Bellinger up next and 1 out you don't send Madrigal. Belli puts the ball in play and in the air. His flyball would have scored him. I have no idea if the baserunning blunders are on the players, base coaches, Counsell, or what. Maybe a combo. And they don't seem to be learning. You make 1 mistake fine, but they keep happening. -
Reds (Greene) vs Cubs (Steele): 6/1/24, 6:15pm
Stratos replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I guess the whole thing with Counsel squeezing the most out of his players is a myth? It's probably an organizational thing for the Brewers, along with some luck and just being really good at picking out value by the FO. They sold off or lost key guys and didn't even have a rebuilt yet ours took 2 years of sucking and prospects are still in the minors. Counsell's been mostly solid based on lineups and managing pitching but I don't see any magic or special abilities. He's better than Ross except for the running game -
5/31 Reds (Ashcraft) @ Cubs (Assad) 1:20 PM CT
Stratos replied to Bertz's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I'm all for some risk with sends with 2 outs, but the number of puts we've had between 3rd and home this year especially less than 2 puts is crazy. -
5/31 Reds (Ashcraft) @ Cubs (Assad) 1:20 PM CT
Stratos replied to Bertz's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Not a protest, a tribute. -
5/31 Reds (Ashcraft) @ Cubs (Assad) 1:20 PM CT
Stratos replied to Bertz's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I know this is sarcasm because i've never seen Dansby hustle in my life. -
Morel's OAA and runs prevented has been almost twice as bad in May as April. He's the worst fielder in the MLB this year among fulltime fielders according to Savants total "Fielding Run Value" stat which uses all statcast measurements. I agree that per the eyeball test he's seemed better in May. Don't think he's made as many throwing errors or other errors. But apparently he's just not getting to balls. He has been unlucky offensively apparently, but he also has -0.1 WAR so far this year. He has been banged up though. Unless they want him to be a DH longterm they just need to keep him at 3B for most of the year to keep learning and develop instincts or send him to AAA. So far in his career he's been a pretty big failure for the Cubs in terms of handling the development of his fielding. Someone as raw as him should never have been molded as a supersub.
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If he lesrns to drive the outside pitches the other way or to CF he'll be quite the hitter.
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Grab one of the nobodies from AAA at this point.
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It's irrelevant to his overall value as an offensive player yes, but not to his development or evaluating his tools/abilities.
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Cubs are dead last in MLB in runs scored from April 27 to May 27. In April they scored the 2nd most runs in MLB.
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If our starter can no hit them again we have a decent shot at winning this in extra innings again.
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Our hitting sucks right now and he's not a good hitter. I think he needs most of the year in AAA ideally. They aren't going to bench e.g. Happ or Busch everyday for PCA. His hitting numbers have always been inflated because of his speed and masks a bunch of his deficits at the plate. Beating out grounders inflates his AVG, OBP, and SLG. Taking extra bases inflates the SLG. He needs a lot of work with the bat and will probably always be below average at the plate with a chance to be average or somewhat above average overall offensively because of the speed.
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Not sure i agree. Hoyer has hardly put any money in terms of AAV into SP. Besides Stroman. This same offense was 3rd in NL in runs scored last year. They spent like 28m aav to bring back Cody. They'll come around.
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Maybe the hitters will decide to wake up before the 9th inning this time.
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Honestly, you play 3B once a week what do you expect? Nobody's launching 105mph fungos at him. Do players even take batting practice on the field anymore with fielders? LOL Seems like every grounder over 100mph the left side of this infield can't handle.
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It's not that they're even just slumping bad, they're playing like total garbage. Sloppy defense, terrible baserunning. Looks like Spring Training hasn't ended yet. If you can't hit then at least play the ball and run the bases well. Do these infielders only take grounders in pratice from 45mph fungos?
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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.
