Hairyducked Idiot
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When you actually overcome and succeed, adversity becomes a side note instead of an excuse. It is really annoying to have five pitchers on the DL right now, two or three of whom are pretty important to the pen. But we built in enough redundancy and have put up enough offense to overcome it, rather than just sitting there at 4-6 saying "Well, it's not their fault four relievers are hurt, so really it's understandable."
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Feel like tomorrow is the day Lester's BABIP starts to balance out and he cruises.
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Hard to believe at one point there was excitement to see A come up Peripherals still acceptable. I'm happy to give him some more time in the supersub role.
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98.9% heading into the inning. We're still above 50%, but dang.
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Well, that was suboptimal.
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Bryant walk-off incoming.
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Is he warming up? Maddon can't possibly put that bum in again. Pat said he was, along with Coke.
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Stop warming up Schlitter.
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Pat Hughes is starting to slip into his "screw it, we suck" voice.
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something something professor something something babip doesn't matter because he's so good at inducing weak contact something.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-18-15
Hairyducked Idiot replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
The 9% K-rate is pretty sexy, but the .625 BABIP is probably a bit unsustainable. And he's *still* not hitting for any power. -
More like that you can't use relievers in strict order of ascending quality every game, even if none of them are classified as unavailable. Otherwise you hit August and Strop and Rondon are already at 75 IP and burn out or get hurt. For a more immediate example, sometimes that means you try to use your 4th/5th best reliever instead of your 3rd in the middle innings so you can best balance the pen's workload in the longer run. There are plenty of ways to design bullpen usage that don't burn out your best pitchers and don't also use your 6th best in a 4-2 game with 2 on and 2 out in the 7th. The generic idea of "don't burn out good pitchers" is a reasonable one, but it doesn't apply to this specific situation. None of our pitchers are in danger of being burnt out that way, outside of some weird "what if the next 3 games are also close and we use them then too?" hypothetical.
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Need to see a better day from brnt
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It was a two run game and they needed a single out. You're way underestimating how quickly late inning guys can get taxed when you go 2 weeks without a true day off. Like 90+% of bullpen usage criticism, it's missing the forest for the trees. So if they get taxed, stop using them until they are untaxed. Again: You're intentionally entering into the downside you are purporting to avoid. The leverage index when Schlitter entered the game was 2.47. That's plenty to qualify it for your best relievers.
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Of course you can. There's a one-run, high-leverage situation *right in front of you*. For all you know, the next two games will be 15-2. You're avoiding using your best relievers in a close game because later you might have to not use your best relievers in a close game? That's locking in the downside to avoid the same downside.
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It's kinda nice to lose a game like that and still be over .500.
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Because it doesn't need clarification. It's irrelevant.
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I kinda don't want to hear justifications about being worried about using our pitchers too much when we're coming off an off-day, have had a bunch of off-days, and just today stopped carrying *eight* relievers.
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Well, we got our runs on Padres gifts and a series of seeing-eye hits while the Padres have been blasting near-dongers at a Szczur-ian rate.
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Intentionally whacking a ball out of play and deflecting a ball out of play are handled different in other rules, so I don't see why they couldn't be here. I'm not talking about winding up and golfing a ball 15 feet to the vines. So what, in the one time in a thousand that the ball is in the gap and you'd be better off if it got stuck and the outfielder is *right there*, he just casually flicks it with his glove and deftly gets it stuck in the ivy? That seems ... implausible.
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Well, now Bryant's 4th K is set up to be legitimately disappointing instead of just a no-big-deal :/
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Intentionally whacking a ball out of play and deflecting a ball out of play are handled different in other rules, so I don't see why they couldn't be here.
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It's the right call to send him to 2b, but they owe us about 5 on bad calls so maybe blow one for us.