Geographyhater8888
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The problem is that their top 100 position prospects are both infielders, 3 if you count Shaw who are all blocked by 30+ YO old or soon to be 30 YO infielders owes over $400 million. I have no idea what the plan is when there’s 2 corner outfield spots up for grabs.
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That’s Dansby being Dansby. He’s always had a bipolar bat. He hit 155 in May of 2024 too. This is the same core of fickle bats we’ve had since 23 and they’ve face planted to the mean after the 10 game winning steaks. If I told you they’d be on pace for 762 runs and a 108 wRC+ 1/3rd of the way through the year, no one would bat an eyelash.
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PCA’s had great at bats lately with bad batted ball luck. He hasn’t struck out in a couple days either. If anything he’s been a bright spot since Friday.
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Ben Brown is our new ace.
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It doesn’t make a horsefeathers of a difference whether or not Happ, Suzuki or Swanson are in the lineup or not. They suck horsefeathers.
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Cubs have been out homered 26-9 during this 14 game stretch from hell.
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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.
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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.
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I did this with the Bulls too. I’ve taken a decade off and counting.
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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.
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The bullpen has been lights out too this week.
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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.
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Right down the God damn middle, but because it’s a slider, Seiya just rolls over it.
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No 2023 Steele, 24 Imanaga or 25 Boyd. No over performance from really any position.
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I’d think Dustin Kelly would be the first casualty.
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No 2024 Imanaga, 2023 Justin Steele or 2025 Mathew Boyd this year
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Hit a horsefeathers homer maybe.
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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.
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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?
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PCA saw 9 pitches and only swung at pitches in the strike zone. Good at bat at least.
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This can’t go on forever. The bullpen has a 1.71 ERA this week and is due for a late inning implosion. Bullpen will give up 5 runs in the 8th to break the 1-1 tie. 6-1 Astros.
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They’re 4th in runs scored and 7th in wRC+ since 2023. It’s far from most of the time but the extreme streakiness still persists. This wouldn’t be that big of a deal with a better pitching staff, but the over reliance on defensive runs saved comes with the price of a pitching staff that can’t keep the ball in the park year after year. When the offense is slumping the pitching staff will still allow 3-5 runs consistently, which is too many during these droughts and no true ace who’ll hold a team to 2 runs or less every 5 days.
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This is following a similar path to 23-24. Sure the bats could wake up today and they’ll be right back on track, but this cores offensive floor is way too low. When they’re bad they’re hopeless. It’s not matter of if but how long until they start scoring runs consistently and the potential to dig themselves into a hole they can’t climb out of with a pitching staff that can’t pick them up.
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May of 2023: 23rd in runs, 25th in wRC+, May of 2024: 26th in runs, 23rd in rWC+, May of 2025: 3rd in runs, 6th in wRC+, May of 2026: 21st in runs, 24th in wRC+.
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They haven’t composed a lineup in reverse alphabetical order by mother’s maiden name yet.
