Bearlys gonna barely.
What a long, strange trip it's been....
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It's a 4.50 ERA. It was a Game Score of 54. Calling that a "quality start" is exactly what's wrong with this nonsense binary metric. #Cubs
Looks like a pretty standard Hoyer #Cubs team.
Or not. Idiot.
It's the Clowns. This is what they're good at.
Leave it to Crane Kenney to figure out how to insert a #Cubs game into the middle of a Yeti infomercial. Well done, sir!
Remember how so many #Cubs 'fans' begged Hoyer to trade Nico? How they ignored he consistently delivers near AS-grade bWAR every season? Entering the final month, he's second on the team (to PCA's league-leading 6.2) w/ 5.2.
Jones has never learned the lesson George Steinbrenner finally did: hire someone who knows the business and then get out of the way.
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
Five QBs on the Clowns, and this is the choice....
It's not like they're playing a five-game series against the division-leading Brewers - in Wrigley - or anything. Good thing the #Cubs didn't give up anyone of value for this one season of him.
Promise?
No respect for this 'team'. They're playing the division leader and they look like they're the Rox. They're in Wrigley, with a 5-game series opportunity to claw back into it, and instead, they're just handing their lunch money over to the bully before he even asks. #Cubs
There is something fundamentally wrong w/ this organization. In spite of all the money, from the top down, it simply isn't built and run to win. #Cubs
What incredible weak sauce. A winner would demand to be playing against the Brewers, especially considering it's the one-season player who so much was traded away for. #Cubs
At this rate, the Reds can plan on playing in October, and the only question will be which team wants to less, the Mutts or the #Cubs.
Way to get up against the main division opponent for a 5-game series. It's not like the #Cubs traded away anyone of value for this one season of who is supposed to be the player to finally take a Hoyer team to the playoffs.
Horton only manages to last 2.2 IP in the first game of a DH, and the offense only manages 2Hs. Ooof. Just another season of the Hoyer regime. #Cubs
Well, they finally got to play the Pirates. Unfortunately, the Pirates aren't going to the postseason. #Cubs
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
In extras. The Brewers are, once again, what the #Cubs should be.
We don't need logos. Run the opaqueness down to put them clearly in the background of the score and tighten up that bug. And present down & distance in a yellow/orange so it draws attention to it, and then let's the viewer move to more general info.
Let's not give Tom any additional ownership ideas. He's having enough trouble putting a winner on the field. #Cubs
The Barelys clearly belong in Arlington Heights. They already own plenty of land for development on the old racing grounds, and a modern stadium complex doesn't belong on Chicago's lakefront.
Ben Brown is an awfulness that needs to go. There is no world in which his continued inability to get outs without putting runners all over the bases is acceptable. He sucks. #Cubs
Buddy, look at who you're talking about. He's the biggest loser around.
That's only once per year. Between high-performance engines needing to stretch their legs and the speed traps in that area, he's doing just fine.
And it was 120 mph into the third row up-the-line behind 1B.
Not by percentage, and certainly not by which roster would you rather take into the playoffs. It's a testament to the depth of the Dodgers organization that it's been able to lead the NLW in spite of a division-worth of injuries. #Cubs
This is the standard Hoyer try-to-catch-lightning-in-a-bottle MO. #Cubs
"A ton of research" would have raised all the red flags everyone is aware of now. Other teams, like the Phillies, plugged their holes and are ready to go deep in October. The #Cubs & Hoyer didn't, largely because they overvalue their system and their own ability to develop MLB-capable players.
Hoyer's TD pitching pickups are just killing it for the #Cubs. Of course, only 1 run doesn't win many games, but still....
Hoyer's big TD acquisition's contribution to a #Cubs WS run this season is 2 IP, for $3M. He's a FA, so expect Jed to pay him another $5M to rehab, assuming Tom is dumb enough to keep letting him waste his money.
If Hoyer remains POBO, then the message is clear that the only thing that matters is the P&L statement. The #Cubs have been run like the Pirates, but w/ $200M+ to blow.
No designated hitter. Fire Rob Manfred.
To the Reds. The team working its way up toward the final WC, and if they get there, it's almost certainly coming at the expense of the #Cubs.
Yeah - the surgery for his shoulder should only take a couple of hours. That drop in avg FB speed wasn't a huge red flag for Hoyer? This is the big TD deal for the postseason? And people wonder why the #Cubs have done nothing in almost 10 years.
Good thing the #Cubs don't need any rotation help to make the postseason, much less go deep, or that the cost of 1 year of Tucker didn't make this an all-in season. But Hoyer's going to come in way under the cap, so everything's fine.
He wore a Golden Sombrero on Saturday, too. He's trying way too hard to win these games all by himself, and he's getting carved up. #Cubs
Good thing Hoyer didn't trade a ton for 1 year of Tucker and then not really do anything after that, including this as the big get at the TD. The #Cubs should have been all-in on this season. It'll be another early exit, assuming they even make it into October. Hoyer's killing this team.
Free for all: The Cubs frittered away the deadline, making small improvements while other NL teams with real aspirations blew right past them. www.pointlessexercise.com/a-systematic...
Exactly. #Cubs had to be all-in this season. Instead, it's just been nibble-nibble-nibble. This has to be it for Hoyer.
After trading a ton for 1 year of Tucker, the #Cubs should have been all-in on this season. Instead, all they've done is nibble and hope. This trade deadline nonsense must be the last straw for Hoyer. Even if they made the playoffs, this is no way to run a championship ballclub.
They did him a huge favor.
He looks a lot better than all that trash that gets the Merde-Lardo plastic surgeries.
The Mets did a better job of the #Cubs identifying who he'd become. This has been covered in another (non-snarky) discussion. Catch up.
The 100-100-40-40-40 watch for PCA is on! #Cubs
Fair enough. And he did play at every stop. But, the #Cubs took Ed Howard 3 spots before PCA in the draft, and by the time they trade Baez for him (along with Trevor Williams), he was on everyone's radar, even injured. Nico and especially Steele are true Cubs prospects they drafted and developed.
Why is Palencia pitching in a 6-0 game, especially with a day game tomorrow? #Cubs
I'm not sure it's fair to call PCA a "Cubs" prospect. This should be reserved for those the #Cubs either drafted or acquired long before an ability to perhaps play in the bigs was identified, and the Cubs were responsible for that player's development, not another club.
Yeah, we should. Don't make the first or last out at third. The best players play fundamentals. #Cubs
Don't make the first or last out at third. #Cubs
With a glove, yes. But HRs come in hotter than they look on tv, so barehanded having to reach back like that instead of fielding it, that's a tough ask. #Cubs
As long as he gathered himself and then threw it back, it's all good. #Cubs
News: Cubs fans want development work to occur in the minors. Clearly, that's where he belongs. #Cubs
It won't be long before each game will only be available by purchasing a "rental" of it, like renting a movie from an online service.
Small market clubs have to use summer interns for all sorts of business activities, kids who think the world was created with a year starting with "20", and who don't have anyone checking their work before it's presented to a sold-out Wrigley Field and broadcast audience. So #Cubs
I'm a huge fan of Schwarber, especially for how he worked his way back to play in the postseason in 2016. But the truth is, he never showed the #Cubs enough to keep him.
This isn't even remotely close to being accurate. He's a legend for specific HR events, not for season-long performance. He was let go after a shorted 2020 that strongly suggested marginal starter value was his peak. It's only been since last season that his value has stabilized higher.
OMT - Even if MLB held the break w/ all 30 teams playing the same # of games at that same # each season, there's still the issue that none of those teams have played the same schedule or faced the same opponents under the same conditions. And this is true even for an entire season. That's baseball.
But this issue is a function of sample size, not specific # of PAs. There's no meaningful difference between (and BA tells us little about a hitter) an OBP of .325 in 240 PAs and one in 260 PAs. And # of games is a poor metric for hitting; it misses place in the order and how a player is used.
Moreover, whether it's "the month of April" or whatever arbitrary measure, everyone understands 30 teams aren't going to have played the same # of games, but no complains about that. The only time everything is equal is at the end of the season, and we all know this.
Counting stats are more affected; rates aren't going to be that much different because of a handful of games. But this is a way-overblown reaction. Simply understanding that the break doesn't come at exactly the half-way point, or after the same # of games each season is all the context needed.
The quintessential Manfred Man.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The reason Jordan Wicks didn't pitch well is that he's not much of pitcher to begin with, regardless of what inning he comes into the game. #Cubs
His small-market team couldn't afford him.
Wow. Game Score of 80 for All-Star Matthew Boyd. 4H, 0BB in 8IP, and using only 85 pitches to get there. Could have been a Maddux if given the opportunity to finish it. #Cubs
Improved accuracy. Improved consistency. It will be the best part of the game.
It's a results league. You are what your numbers say you are. The #Cubs have had to eat a number of mediocre-to-poor starts just to get something like the GS of 70 he put up against the Tribe. He's currently at -0.4 bWAR, and this game will likely move that down a notch.
Well, that ship has sailed.
Nothing but more graft.
Porter Hodge - the quintessential RP. Flashes awesome stuff with great results one season, only to implode into a white dwarf the next. #Cubs
You misspelled Michael Busch. #Cubs
The best hitter on the #Cubs is Michael Busch. And he also plays defense.
Back-to-back-to-back TOOTBLANs for the #Cubs.
Paredes OPS+ for home games, which you assert is what's responsible for his hitting: 131. Paredes OPS+ for away games, which if you were correct would be markedly less: 130. The evidence doesn't support your assertion.
bWAR adjusts for park factors. It's the org, not the park.
This belongs in the entertainment section, not sports.
Don't worry. The #Cubs could put Mike Schmidt at 3B, and he wouldn't hit, either.
A player capable of already crossing 2 bWAR, with half of the season still to go, who wouldn't start for an MLB team unless there's already an MVP-caliber player there, is a victim of a poor organization. No Tucker means Cam Smith plays. For another six years.
Why not? Is there something about the Astros that unlocks his magic powers?
Who's that on the horse? Because it sure doesn't look like the current Sec of Cosplay our country has.
That's great, but if you put Cam Smith in RF and Isaac Paredes at 3B, the #Cubs would have even more bWAR than the current lineup provides, and they'd have those players to do it again in the future.
Scorecard. Definitely the scorecard. #Cubs
It's the 107 pitches in less than 5IP that's the problem with this box score. #Cubs
Especially because the term for how fast something is moving, irrespective of where it's moving, is speed. And using a word that's incorrect just because it lets announcers make up yet another 'cool' abbreviation (that they then mispronounce) is pathetic.
107 pitches in less than 5IP is no way to go about one's business. And wouldn't it be nice to have Paredes at 3B and Cam Smith for another six years? #Cubs
Cam Smith and Isaac Paredes have put up 4.6 bWAR so far this season. Kyle Tucker has 3.3. And Paredes plays 3B, still a black hole for the #Cubs. For one season of Tucker. The only thing Hoyer nailed with the trade is his being out of a job after this season. What a waste of assets.
The two offensive players Hoyer traded to the Astros, including the #Cubs #1 draft pick from last year, have put up 4.6 bWAR. Tucker, the return for one season, is at 3.3 bWAR. And Paredes plays 3B, which remains a black hole.
Unless it's all three, they're not free.
They need to put up a touchdown to be in any given game. The teams they'll face in October, assuming they even make the postseason, consistently beat them. So, "bad" is a stretch for the #Cubs, but "mediocre" is certainly fair.
This is a no-brainer pickup for the #Cubs. If he were a P, Jed would already have cut a deal for yet another reclamation project. And he's got to still be a better hitter than anyone they have playing 3B.
#Cubs need to put up a touchdown to be in any given game.
"Extremely good" needs to be more than an inning or two of pumping in the fastball and hoping hitters can't get it timed up. This is the kind of pitcher who the Pirates use to play 162 games. #Cubs
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This is who he is. He's not someone who belongs on an MLB team with playoff aspirations. #Cubs
Can we finally stop pretending Ben Brown is a MLB pitcher? #Cubs
The #Cubs scored 20 runs in their 3-game series w/ the Mariners. Unfortunately, Seattle scored 30.
Can he play 3rd these days? I'm sure he can still hit better than anyone the #Cubs are using.