Jump to content
North Side Baseball

Geographyhater8888

Old-Timey Member
  • Posts

    3,345
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    2

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by Geographyhater8888

  1. I like Boyd. He doesn’t have 2005 number 3 starter stuff.
  2. One of these years Bregman will break a tie with a 2 out 2 run homer or even an rbi single.
  3. I’ll give Jed this, you could be stuck paying for high $ vets on the backend of their deals with limited financial flexibility and diminishing returns after the window closes like the Padres and clock is ticking for Philly too. Machado, Boggarts and Tatis look like complete duds. Although the Dodgers have pulverized the competitive balance of baseball to be fair but the Cubs will have over $100 million to spend and only the corner outfielders will be missed. You can criticize the timing of his free agent signings but that’s for another topic.
  4. Is Jed’s aversion to paying top dollar for a starting pitcher on a long terms deal a matter of fear of attrition or is the lack of quality arms in the farm system hand cuffing him financially to make a big splash signing? He’d have to focus on a quantity of high floor vets on safe deals to supplement the ML roster if it’s not simply cowardice. And of course the reverse Coors effect that the Cubs defense has on the pitching ranking 29th in war and 17th in ERA. Ben Brown and Cade Horton have xFIPs and xERAs well over a run higher than their true numbers and I’m assuming their ability to minimize home runs and induce enough soft contact to reap the benefits of the great defense makes this relatively sustainable? (In a world where Cade isn’t on the 1.5 year IL and Sox fan pope Bob isn’t using the power of God to injure Cubs pitchers).
  5. What’s the historical winning percentage of teams out homering their opponent 4-0 and also out erroring a team 6-0?
  6. Not that the Mets defense isn’t a disgrace but a lot of those errors were smoked.
  7. Whatever little faith I had in Imanaga after last year is completely gone,
  8. We’ve got a couple more weeks of MVP Dansby before he turns back into DFA Dansby for another 6 weeks.
  9. It’s a 3 run lead with 6 outs to go and every at bat feels like it’s bases loaded no one put up by 1.
  10. Yeah. And he’ll go into another extended slump and people will be talking about DFAing him again and the cycle will continue.
  11. Assad’s ERA would be at least in in the 5’s behind most defenses.
  12. He’s too streaky. A home run in April that leads to a win counts less than one in May or July. The score keepers should only record a home run of his if they’re hit 4 games apart and preferably in the 9th inning down by a run. If it’s not linear then it shouldn’t count.
  13. I don’t think anyone would be surprised if I told everyone that the Cubs would be 41-37 with 8 innings from Horton, Boyd missing multiple months, Palencia with 2 IL stints and Steele hasn’t thrown a single inning yet. Unfortunately no positive reinforcements coming from Horton or Steele and Cabrera will miss at least a month.
×
×
  • Create New...