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Cubs have been out homered 26-9 during this 14 game stretch from hell.

I was too young to enjoy the dynasty. My great Bulls memories start and end with Derrick rose, which was soured by Carlos boozer being their prized free agent in the greatest free agent class of all time, because of a horsefeathers owner who refused to go over the LT.

What really sticks out is how the cubs have been out homered on the year 73:60. Taillon, Imanaga and Rea have been the biggest culprits. People harp on the lack of hitting with RISP, it wouldn’t matter if they could clear the bases every now and then. Only 18 in 22 games this month. Albeit they’re 10th in in xWOBA and 24th in wRC+ so it’s either a matter of bad luck or a combination of that and too much hard contact straight into the shift, by design.

I did this with the Bulls too. I’ve taken a decade off and counting.

Adding wins by hacking the system through finding war from elite gloves, handing out record breaking contracts to managers and giving a 32 YO Bregman 5 years, in large part due to for his great club house presence, with the idea that it’ll give this team some enormous edge on the margins, is so Jed. It’s a $240 million money ball roster. Still without a past version of Imanaga, Boyd or Bellinger to save the day and shatter their projections. They’re a 6 month slugger and true top of the rotation starting pitcher away from even competing with the Dodgers. Same as always. But the injuries to the rotation have really lowered the teams high floor.

The bullpen has been lights out too this week.

Is this a new thing? He was always attacked with sliders away on 2 strike counts but lately he’s being pounded by sliders in the strike zone no matter what the count is. He’s like the real life Pedro Serrano.

Right down the God damn middle, but because it’s a slider, Seiya just rolls over it.

No 2023 Steele, 24 Imanaga or 25 Boyd. No over performance from really any position.

I’d think Dustin Kelly would be the first casualty.

No 2024 Imanaga, 2023 Justin Steele or 2025 Mathew Boyd this year

Hit a horsefeathers homer maybe.

Yeah. Small ball is the Cubs issue. Let’s talk about getting those ground ball singles up the middle while the opponent hits 3+ homers off our starting pitchers. Slug ball is hurting the offense.

I know that the offense has been dog horsefeathers but there’s not one pitcher on this staff who can accidentally hold a team scoreless for 7 innings and win a game by a 3-2 score?

PCA saw 9 pitches and only swung at pitches in the strike zone. Good at bat at least.