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Buxton might’ve caught that.
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Tigers are way better than their record and have won 9/11. They’ll win the AL central if the Sox don’t if I had to bet and we’re catching them at a bad time, even while missing Skubal and Mize.
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Cubs Trade For Beleagured Starter Aaron Civale
Geographyhater8888 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I’ll give him a month before he’s DFAd, only to be signed to a second contract 2 days later when Mathew Boyd has his left arm amputated from a staph infection. -
Cubs Trade For Beleagured Starter Aaron Civale
Geographyhater8888 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I was a huge fan of the rich Harden trade at the time until Josh Donaldson won league MVP. Now I tell everyone I hated the trade the moment it happened. -
There’s such a big hill to climb with every key arm from the opening day staff not only injured but will be used sparingly if and when they return from the IL. So many arms away from being at 70% of your projected mid season pitching staff. I wonder if a package deal for Williams, with team control at a non discounted price and Peralta is on the table.
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The Pirates are the only one of those 3 that worries me, but with 19 games left against all 3, evenly split, there’s huge implications. No repeat of 2023 versus Miami and Arizona.
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A double play on a base hit into the outfield gap. WTF
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I’d love to see both Nico and Pete hot at the same time.
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Alex Brujans “hot streak” consisted of a 93 mph home run and a bloop, pop up double.
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1 for his last 17, albeit with a 6 walks.
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Boyd is the only starting pitcher on this staff that I have any real confidence in.
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Second half Bregman is as much of a thing as a motivated Dayo.
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Piss. That looked good off the bat.
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I’ll never not be disgusted by fans booing montero in his return to wrigley as a blue jay in 2017.
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Yeah. It’s not sustainable playing at a 667 clip with a rotation allowing 4.5 runs/game (since Ben browns injury).
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The problem is it’s usually 5 runs or bust with a pitching staff that has allowed 4 or more runs in 55/97 games. The lack of a stopper in the rotation will become noticeable when the bats become human with the remaining schedule.
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What would cubs baseball be without wasted run scoring opportunities and home runs given up by the pitching staff. They’re back
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Of the last 10 World Series championship, all 10 were top 10 in positional fWAR and only the 6th ranked 2022 Astros and 7th ranked 2021 Braves we’re outside of the top 5 for an average ranking of 3.3. On the pitching side 7/10 landed in the top 10, 5 landed in the top 5 and the 2023 Rangers were as low as 20th, for an average ranking of 7.5th. Cubs lead all of baseball with a 62.5 positional fWAR since July 31st of 2024 through 311 games. They’re third in offensive war, second in runs and 1st in defensive war by over 19 runs. They’re also 26th in pitching war yet 11th in ERA.
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I always thought that was by design but I’ve never read or listened to anything that meaningfully digs into the systematic aspect of how they operate. I’ll check that out.
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They still might. It was a minor trade. The Cubs aren’t done adding because they traded for David Peterson. I hope not at least.
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The difference is that Cardinals have always skated around a top 10 payroll, especially during the LaRussa and Matheny eras with guys like Pujols, Rollen, Edmonds, Carpenter, Wainwright, Molina, Holliday etc. the Brewers just horsefeathers out 90+ win seasons with constant roster turnover while exceeding projected wins by 10+ games year after year with a microscopic payroll. The Brewers don’t make sense. The Cardinals did on some level. Their wRC+ with RISP is 10 points higher their true wRC+ since 2018, they’re averaging 92 wins/season with the average war of an 88 win team/162. The Cubs since 2018 are averaging about 85 wins with the average war of an 85 win team.
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If the season ended today Ohtani, wins and PCA is comfortably in second place. The only thing that matters is how Much war you accumulated, not when you accumulated it. It makes no difference whether the Cubs had a 20-3 stretch followed up with a 7-22 or a 12-11 followed by a 15-14. They’d still Be 54-42. The logic is dumb.
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So for PCA to be considered league MVP, the Cubs would have to have finished exactly 3 games above 500 every single month from April-mid July and PCA would have to have finished each month with exactly 1.5 war. His detractors are comical.
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I’m guessing either Tom or Carter is one of the other twinkles,
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Cubs Reds Game 3
Geographyhater8888 replied to chibears55's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Yeah. He struggled against the Reds and Brewers going 1-20 and yet walked a a total of 9 times. His floor is so much higher.
