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Have a feeling we're going to have a broadcasting shakeup after the season. I don't see Taylor McGregor coming back after the season.

First run allowed in over a month (May 17) for Ryan Rolison. Since that day, 18 innings scoreless, Also one impressive stat for Rolison. In May, he allowed 10 walks and struck out 13 batters. In June, he allowed 3 walks and struck out 13 batters.

Man, I was wrong about Collin Rea. Had a little hiccup in the first inning. But with a runner on 3rd and 0 outs, what a way to man up and get the job done. This has been a great performance so far for the Cubs. I know we only have 1 run and 1 hit to show for, but driving the pitch count up by the offense has been a win so far.

PCA was safe, but I'm glad we didn't challenge because that would've been a double play..

Not sure whoever agreed to have a blue vs blue matchup, but let's not do that again.

Just don't understand why Ryan Rolison isn't the opener for this game.

I'm curious to see what the team record is for most RBI's in a 3 game stretch

I don't think they'll be as aggressive as what people think they should be. They're not in the top 4 of the NL (Brewers, Braves, Phillies, and Dodgers are above them). You add that with the future CBA/lockout situations, and the asking price/demand for pitchers, I don't see Jed willing to be aggressive to pull any trigger on a Alcantara, Gray, Ryan type pitcher. I do think, however, he will find a way to go one step below them and get potentially a Michael Wacha/Walker Buehler type pitchers (not saying it will be them), but it'll be something to solidify the "we won 85-88 games, and we potentially made the playoffs"

This is the problem with the Cubs, and this is why they have been called out by national media members like Ken Rosenthal and others. A few years ago, people were debating between either Pete Alonso or Michael Busch. The nerdy people loved Busch because of his defensive ability over Alonso, and more nerdy stats. Well, last year Busch had a career year of 34 home runs with 90 RBI's. Alonso just did his normal thing hitting 38 homers, driving in 120+, and hitting .272. So, Busch's career year still isn't as good as Pete Alonso on the back of the baseball card. And Pete Alonso played 162 last year. The Cubs have the same issue. Not saying Yordan Alvarez is available. But if the Cubs trade for him, you definitely have the best hitter in the NL Central. You slot him in the 3rd/4th slot in the lineup every night and leave him alone. Problem with the Cubs is that they have gone too analytical and too nerdy. Enough with the nerdy stats, they need playmakers, and they don't have it on pitching, and hitting. They just don't. And the fans are the ones that are being treated with a disservice because this team is robbing the fans. They have a tough weekend homestead with Toronto coming to town, and a tough road trip to the Mets and Brewers. Only good thing is Misiorowski doesn't look like he'll pitch against Chicago next weekend.

Beautiful hitting by Pedro. Hit the ball where it's pitched.

Rockies got some velocity in their bullpen...

JD is right, not sure why he's not throwing the Sweeper...

Team definitely needs a win. Winning 4 of the last 5 sounds a lot better than 3-2 with how this team is playing. They can continue to gain momentum off 4-1, don't think so off 3-2.

Man, just glad Seiya didn't strike out there.

He's not a good GM, that's my opinion and I'm going to stick with it. When you look at the draft, I don't think there's a blueprint or foundation of how this team is built. When you look at the Cubs in the Theo days, it was obvious college hitters. When you look at Seattle today, it's mainly college pitching. I'm glad guys like Hartshorn and Kaleb Wing are off to great starts to the season, but as we have seen from Kevin Alcantara, we need those players to produce in the MLB when/if given the opportunity. And we have seen Cubs farm players that haven't been able to produce in the MLB. First person that comes to mind is Luke Little, who just demoted to AA-Knoxville (even though I still prefer to call them Tennessee). Miguel Amaya has been average. I don't think it's a good thing we have two catchers playing, just like a NFL/college football having two QB's, just believe in the "if we have two QB's (or catchers), then we really don't have a QB/catcher." Busch was a safe trade because the Dodgers can't play him because of Freddie Freeman. Nico is an okay player. We all know Dansby is great defensively but is average/below average offensively. Bregman is similar to Busch, a safe acquisition that filled a desire need. Outfield: Suzuki is average, Happ is good, and PCA is great defensively, and is hot offensively but an emotional train wreck at times. I was watching the Rangers/Red Sox game on NBC, and one of the commentators said "when you look at the Rangers, in 2023, all of the hitters had career numbers. Now, they're just an average/bad offense team." I think that has perfectly described the Cubs in 2025. Last season, Dansby had 144 hits which is the most he had with the Cubs so far. PCA was playing like an MVP for the first half of the season. Busch had 34 home runs which is a massive outlier so far in his career, he only has 8 this season. Seiya had a 30 homer/100RBI year and will go back into the 20-24 home run pace which is where he is usually at. Carson Kelly even went nuts last season. So our offense is playing at a career rate, and we all know that, only to see Willie Castro and Kittredge and Soroka as our trade deadline additions. We all know that wasn't going to be enough. Our starting pitcher doesn't have an A level arm, that's clear. Could've gone after Joe Ryan, but failed. Passed on Alcantara, Could've traded a young bat for a Seattle arm, but chose not to. Point being, the opportunities to address the starting pitching last season at the deadline hurt the team in the postseason play. Shota was toast and was terrible in Milwaukee. I mean, Collin Rea had a postseason start if I'm not mistaken. So we had guys that had career years last season, but we have failed to elevate the team and put them closer to the top. This team is not close and has not closed the gap on LA, which I know is hard. But Milwaukee is in much better shape than the Cubs, and I don't see there being any intentions to close that gap, too. And as a result, we don't have a player that's in the top 5 in all-star voting at their respected positions. Jed is scared to make a big boy move (buying or selling) and it shows. That's just my opinion. I want this team to win a World Series soon, but I'd rather for them to go 62-100 than consistently 85-77 and hope they can catch fire in the postseason, when we all know they can't make it past the NLDS/Dodgers.

It's a good idea to start Rolo today over Rea, even though it's an opener.

Personally, I think Seattle has done well with the draft over the last few years, particularly in the first rounds. I didn't mind the way the Cubs have drafted over the last few years, but I don't believe we have any legit or as they call "aircraft carriers" in the selections. We haven't done well in the 2nd round picks either recently. It seemed like drafting Ferris was a great selection, but he got traded. There were two issues with the Cubs over the last few seasons. One, there's no true identity on how we are drafting players in the first round. Theo went with college hitters (Bryant, Schwarber, Happ, etc.), while Seattle has gone with college pitchers (Gilbert, Hancock, Kirby). We know what to expect when we watch Seattle on TV. I don't like the future of the Chicago Cubs, I'll be honest. I think we're putting too much stock into defense particularly up the middle guys. For the bullpen, it's Palenica and then it's just a bunch of guys that we hope that can get outs, and that's been a problem for years. Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati have good young starting pitchers that can light up the radar gun. Yes, I totally understand that selecting high up in the draft has awarded them that. But they have good farm systems now (along with MIL), which is something the Cubs don't have. So, the issue with the Cubs that being stuck in the middle of the MLB in 2022-2024 ish has hurt us a little bit, and we're paying for it. Not drafting well and not developing players adds insult to injury.

Yes, and go hire someone from the Seattle's front office to replace Jed.

I think he had like 3 homers the first two weeks.

Rolison vs Goodman AKA, a West Tennessee battle between these two

Jed got caught. He and Breslow from Boston are operating at the same level. Just a bunch of B/C level players in hopes that one of them catches fire, and gives the team the chance. The team is just average. The 10+ game winning streaks were pretty much a fluke. Having 3 walk off wins against Cincinnati in a row is something that doesn't really happen. We played Philadelphia at the right time. But the lack of firepower on the offense and pitching is killing this team. The lack of identity of the organization is hurting as well. Someone mentioned it, we're last in the MLB in velocity. We have nothing that scares anybody across the MLB.

Their stats are weird. Not very good in starting pitching, not very good in offensively hitting, but they're legit in the bullpen from what I've. It's weird, but I don't see it being sustainable for a 162.

You're becoming an idiot with that post. One, since the beginning of the previous road at Texas, the Cubs have scored 4 or more runs in just 3 games (11 games total). The Cubs pitching knows the offense isn't doing well. The Cubs pitching staff knows the offense is leaving a crap ton of base runners on base. The Cubs pitching staff knows the 2-5 hitters can't hit with RISP. There's a crap ton of pressure when it comes to pitching knowing the offense can't score. Add that with a 2 bogus errors, then there's nothing Cabrera can do.

Feel bad for Cabrera. Catcher's interference on the strings of the mit, Hoerner getting out at 3rd base, and now this.

Bench him