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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.
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8 horsefeathers hits in the last 3 games.
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I blame the lineup construction.
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Those are soccer scores.
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What makes it worse if that the pitching staff isn’t slumping and are just bad.
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I miss slug ball. Like what our opponents do vs Rea and Taillon.
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Why does this team struggle so much squaring up pitches right down the middle?
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I can’t remember the last time Seiya was lower than 5th in the lineup.
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You can start with them but it’s a good bet another team will offer better prospects. Shaw for Skubal, even for a couple months is worth turning the teams biggest weakness into a strength IMO. This team won’t win a World Series with this rotation as is and probably not with Joe Ryan either, who’d cost even more prospect capital. We’re talking about a pitcher who basically carried a mediocre Tigers team in the playoffs and will significantly move the needle. Enough of these half measures from Jed.
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Progress. Their 4 hits are twice as many as Wednesday, scored over 30% of the total runs in a game for the first time this week, Taillon retired almost 15 batters and Happ only struck out twice.
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It’s like watching that spring training scene in the major league.
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They’re much worse than that awful 2024 stretch right now. They lose by 3+ runs every day and night. This is worse than that horrific stretch in May of 2023. Their run differential is -32 as of right now in their last 12.
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This is the worst slump they’ve had in a long time.
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We have a starting pitcher who was an out shy of recording 15 outs so there’s some positive takeaways from this game at least.
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Booooooooooo
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Good.
