Stratos
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Besides the pen blowing up, Dansby needs to catch that liner hit at him by Machado. The exit velocity was 96 mph I believe, not crazy. And Tauchman needs to stop that ball rolling past him in the gap. Suzuki missed one like that the other day. I'll never understand how outfielders can watch balls roll past them to the fence when any infielder even a 1B could easily at least knock it down with a slide. They just need to slide.
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I wanted another quality pen arm with Neris. We know there's always injuries, like Hughes/Boxberger etc early last year. Almonte is more of an average middle reliever. He may turn out decent with his slider if they can get his FB effective, but we'll see. Leiter and Neris can be dominant, with Merryweather. Alzolay is tough when he's on. Losing Merryweather is tough. Hopefully this is just a terrible game and a fluke, but you can't lose that lead and have 9 unanswered runs.
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Over 100 pitches on your 2nd start of the year is a bit much.
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Not so fast. Same pen as last year 😥
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Julien Merryweather diagnosed with rib stress fracture
Stratos replied to Jason Ross's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Before the season I was worried about injuries specifically from Steele, Leiter, Merryweather, and Alzolay this season due to their overuse last season. Didn't think Steele's injury had anything to do with overuse, but with Merryweather also on the shelf and all these other injuries around the league i'm wondering if it may be related. We saw Hendricks and Stroman have injury issues the year after being pitched a lot in 2021 after the COVID-shortened 2020 year. If the league wants to keep the pitch clock I think they need to be reasonable and also make some adjustments so players can get used to it. E.g. Add another roster slot to the 26-man just for a pitcher, and add 2-3 seconds to the clock, at least until the established pitchers get used to it for a couple of seasons and can build their arm up a bit. The Cubs would be very wise to play it conservative until more data comes out and watch the pitch counts and reliever usage on guys in April/May and maybe even all year. With reduced recovery time between pitches maybe they should take about 10 pitches off the total pitch count of a SP that they'd normally allow. -
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Cubs been wearing out SP, this is good. Also makes the pen a bit thinner for rest of the series.
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Cooper will start vs LHP it looks like. Unless Madrigal is playing 3B I guess. Not too many PA's for Cooper right now I guess, but a good guy to have in case of injury somewhere.
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So it's the opposite of living in Chicago: you go north in the summer instead of south for the winter. That's neat.
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You're a hero for making major life decisions based around baseball. ST in AZ is another bonus. You could moved to Myrtle Beach haha. The Carolinas sound nice, never been though. Been to Tennessee, it was beautiful. Not into the desert vibe, though not a fan of the humidity in the south/Florida either haha.
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Tommy John LOL
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We'll have to see how we hit (and pitch...and field) on the road.
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So we went from a .500 team to the 4th best team in the MLB because of 6 games, 3 against the Rockies at home? That seems odd. They still have our playoff odds at 51% haha.
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Almonte has a filthy slider. I'm happy Imanaga has kept the ball in the park so far and the FB at the top of the zone seems to play at least in this early going. If he can catch Freeman and Ohtani whiffing on it then that's a great sign so far, though they're both LHB. Humid day in Chicago is different than dry AZ air. Add Horton to the rotation next year hopefully, and that's Steele/Imanaga/Horton plus Taillon/Wicks/Brown/Assad to play with as 4/5, with 2 of them potentially in the pen. Little might even have closer stuff if he can figure out the control. The position side already looks pretty solid before adding Caissie, PCA, Shaw, etc., and the depth is very good everywhere. But let's not get ahead of ourselves LOL.
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Cubs offense looking like they're picking up where they were in Aug, which is awesome given it's early April and the weather sucks. This is a fun team to watch, especially with the upgrades. Belli still looks legit too. Almost every position guy on this team seems like a gamer who do the little things. Hopefully we have a fun year of baseball again.
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Nice thing is that if Imanaga is effective over the next 2 seasons and the Cubs exercise their options on Imanaga he can't opt-out.
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He's got 2 options so maybe.
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PSD did 1 thread per series, less work, worked well. Just a suggestion.
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Analysis: he can't catch or throw. Conclusion: he sucks.
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Agree. So if Steele and Taillon are back who gets sent down or cut? Probably Brown to stay stretched out in Iowa. And Little? That would be a shame.
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Not a bad idea. Morel could be backup at SS along with Nico. Ideally I don't want Wisdom to replace Cooper though.
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Mastrobuoni is a bad ballplayer. Hurry up Shaw so we can get this guy off the team.
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He was at 100 pitches. Wicks matched Yamamoto against the Dodgers lineup, fantastic start for him. Can't stand how inconsistent Cuas is his release. He just seems so sloppy. Wouldn't be thrilled with him coming in with guys already on.
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Maybe more the higher effort and focus on velo and spin rates. Can't compare to how guys threw several decades ago.
