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I don’t think anyone’s disputing that they’re not good. But with the way they’ve been playing as of this moment just doesn’t inspire a ton of confidence. A 6-3 road trip if they win today would match our bar of expectations. Winning nail biters vs the angels Pirates and Rockies and an offense that struggles to score over 4 runs, as of this very moment isn’t inspiring much confidence whether fair or not. I think people ignore the aggregate 136 game sample size because they haven’t really had the long winning streaks putting up crooked scores in forever or really at all topping out at 5 games and no real statement series sweep of a playoff contender, the lack of highs distracts us from the lack of lows. Luckily there’s still time for the bats to heat back up but the reaction from some posters is chasing that unsustainable early season magic. Credit to Counsell for keeping the pen fresh enough to win games on the margins. I’m saying this in as detached of a way as possible here, and 100% of posters would’ve been satisfied with 90+ wins back in march.
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If they beat Sandiego or LA in the wild card round and win a game vs any opponent in the divisional round he can’t say “I told you so” because they competed with and won a series vs one of the above teams.
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Haven’t scored over 4 runs in consecutive games since August 25-27, 31 games ago.
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You’d think this team would be due for another big knock with bases loaded but nope, another double play. Worst offense in baseball for 40 games.
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Kelly is making up to the baseball gods for his crazy April.
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Funny how much Fangraphs and baseball reference contrast. Swanson is sitting at a 4.2 bar with a +112 rbat, their version of wRC+ and league adjusted rOBA. Same deal with Nico who’s sitting at a 3.7 fWAR and a 5.3 bWAR.
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Fact is, he’s pretty much lived up to his contract. He’s flawed, which is why he was the fourth highest paid short stop of that 2022/23 free agent class. He’s also 2nd in fWAR from that MI free agent class at 11.9, making $100 million fewer than Boggarts and Turner. He in no way has been a flop like Heyward.
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Your problem is with Jed then.
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Only thing I’d contest is keeping Busch in the leadoff spot. He’s second on the team in home runs since the all star break and 5 of his 6 hit have been solo shots from the leadoff spot. I’d rather have him up in these bases loaded situations over Carson Kelly who’s either called out on strikes or grounds into a double play. The bad sequencing to a small but noticeable degree can be linked to relying on Kelly, who hasn’t slugged consistently slugged since April to be a run producer. Same can be said for Suzuki since the ASB.
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I hate Adames.
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Bats are still absurdly useless I see.
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What a dog horsefeathers strike zone.
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When you bench Happ vs a left handed pitcher, pick your poison. What I want to see is Kelly and Hsaw swapped. A rookie Shaw projects to be a more productive bat than Carson Kelly, a guy with a career 92 OPS+ and is looking every part of it over the last few months. Counsell waited until late May to move PCA up in the order and the last game before the all star break to move Happ out of the leadoff spot, and he’ll wait another another week+ of the offense scoring at a 3 runs/game clip before making a change,
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Win because we’re the best team at 59-39 has a better ring to it than just get hot at the right time, doesn’t it.
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When Busch, Seiya, PCA turn back the clock to mid July on an 850+ OPS pace with 30-40+ home-run pop, shattering their 2025 projections, we’re back. Need I mention Tucker? Can’t wait too much longer though.
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The starting pitching wasn’t going to keep this up forever but at least the bats are consistent.
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Rea looks like horsefeathers. That sub 2 ERA from the starting pitching wasn’t sustainable, hopefully the same applies to this dog horsefeathers offense.
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This is Nico’s team.
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Without the bullpen and the reinforcements of Shaw and Horton it’d be a carbon copy of last May. 5+ runs scored only 2X in their last 18.
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Seems like they peaked from July 4th of last year going a combined 103-70 scoring 904 runs to 676. The reinforcements of Shaw and the bullpens performance is how they’ve averted disaster from years past, playing 500 ball scoring 5+ runs 2X in their last 18.
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Cubs have 30 games to figure out how to score runs consistently assuming some catastrophic collapse doesn’t happen,
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Losing to Milwaukee would erase a lot of the positive memories but that’s just me. Beating them makes it a huge success.
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You take the positives for granted and point out the negatives that can impact your chances of winning in the playoffs. This is universal for every fanbase and every GM too. Unless you think Jed is a hater for adding bullpen arms and dumping Brujan for Castro, to improve the team every way he can. Should we talk about the cubs like we’re reading an obituary only mentioning the positive traits of the deceased? It’s ok to meet in the middle within reason.
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It all hinges on the rotation and Tucker. Great news if Tuckers turned a corner and his issues were mental/mechanical and not injury related and Boyd and Horton continue to remove any doubt that they can handle the workload. Rooting for the Cubs fcks with your head, The ability to win on the margins is a positive tend i haven’t really seen with any consistency since the 2015 team. I feel a lot better about them right now than a week ago after passing the test vs Milwaukee and how they’ve stacked wins even with a slumping offense.
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Which crowd do I fall into?
