Our kryptonite headed my into the off season was a lack of reliable pen arms. What does Jed do to adress it? Sign Neris and manager who can better manage a pen with no reliable arms.
The position players were shaky enough as is but no one could’ve foreseen this offense being so bad with RISP regardless of the $ pissed away on Dodgers and Yankees role players.
It’s a comedy act at this point. The outcomes are so predictable. Inability to pile on runs, wasting a gem from our starting pitching, and coughing up 2+ run leads in the 9th. All the ingredients for a jersey mike sub sandwich.
Mets took us out of comfort yesterday afternoon. Let’s cling to a 3-2 lead in the top of the 7th and flip a coin to see if the pen can hold the lead. I pick Heads.
Where does our starting pitching rank? I know our record going in to today is 11-9 in games our staff allowed 3 runs or less. Rest of the league is winning at a .890 clip in those types of games.
Cubs are only 11-9 since may in games the rotation allowed 3 runs or less.
The cumulative record for all 30 team’s allowed 3 or fewer runs are 450-62.
If they could score at a league average pace in these games they’d be 41-30.