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Quote from: Quality Start Machine on May 14, 2018, 09:25:19 AM

Quote from: SKO on May 13, 2018, 06:09:59 PM

Quote from: Saul Goodman on May 13, 2018, 04:07:02 PM
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Yet another awful Addison strikeout. Neat.

Hey don't forget his two terrible baserunning mistakes

You're including the one where he had to stop to avoid passing Schwarber, aren't you?

He was involved in two terrible baserunning blunders, and my large adult son is an innocent who is blameless in all things, therefore it's got to be Russell's fault.

Quote from: Tonker on May 14, 2018, 06:56:23 AM
I know a couple of you are fucking hot for the Dodgers, but I enjoyed the piss out of their getting swept in a four-game series by the Reds.  The fucking Reds!  Ha ha!  Fuck the Dodgers.

To go from "is this the greatest team of all time?" articles last august, to that awful September skid they had, to blowing the WS (never forget Clayton Kershaw had a 4-0 and then a 7-4 lead in Game 5 and blew both), and now this hellish start filled with terrible injuries after is really something. They are basically living the nightmare we've all had of what might have happened if the Cubs had lost Game 7 in Cleveland

Quote from: Saul Goodman on May 13, 2018, 04:07:02 PM
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Yet another awful Addison strikeout. Neat.

Hey don't forget his two terrible baserunning mistakes

Quote from: CBStew on May 11, 2018, 11:22:32 AM

Quote from: SKO on May 11, 2018, 08:34:10 AM

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on May 11, 2018, 08:25:58 AM

Quote from: Saul Goodman on May 10, 2018, 08:34:50 PM

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on May 10, 2018, 03:13:01 PM
Montgomery has been less than good this year. His ERA and FIP are up over a run, and his K rate has been cut in half, from 18.5% last year to 9.3% this year.

Oleg and I were nosing around, and swaw that he's going to his changeup a a lot more (18.3% up from 12.1% last year), and his  curveball a lot less 18.7%, down from 23.9 last year).

Where it gets really weird is that his soft contact is up about 10%, while his hard contact has dropped by that corresponding percentage. And his GB%, which is always good, is actually up from 57.8% to 67.2%.

Anybody got any ideas?

Chris Bosio is good, and Jim Hickey is bad. QED.

More to the root cause, Epstink is terrible.

Maybe we should call him Epstunk because he's a washed up has been who hasn't done anything good since 2016.

ingrate

more like "I'm great" amirite

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on May 11, 2018, 08:25:58 AM

Quote from: Saul Goodman on May 10, 2018, 08:34:50 PM

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on May 10, 2018, 03:13:01 PM
Montgomery has been less than good this year. His ERA and FIP are up over a run, and his K rate has been cut in half, from 18.5% last year to 9.3% this year.

Oleg and I were nosing around, and swaw that he's going to his changeup a a lot more (18.3% up from 12.1% last year), and his  curveball a lot less 18.7%, down from 23.9 last year).

Where it gets really weird is that his soft contact is up about 10%, while his hard contact has dropped by that corresponding percentage. And his GB%, which is always good, is actually up from 57.8% to 67.2%.

Anybody got any ideas?

Chris Bosio is good, and Jim Hickey is bad. QED.

More to the root cause, Epstink is terrible.

Maybe we should call him Epstunk because he's a washed up has been who hasn't done anything good since 2016.

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on May 10, 2018, 03:13:01 PM
Montgomery has been less than good this year. His ERA and FIP are up over a run, and his K rate has been cut in half, from 18.5% last year to 9.3% this year.

Oleg and I were nosing around, and swaw that he's going to his changeup a a lot more (18.3% up from 12.1% last year), and his  curveball a lot less 18.7%, down from 23.9 last year).

Where it gets really weird is that his soft contact is up about 10%, while his hard contact has dropped by that corresponding percentage. And his GB%, which is always good, is actually up from 57.8% to 67.2%.

Anybody got any ideas?

They asked him to throw his curveball less because he struggled to throw it for strikes, and he gets weak contact off his changeup? I dunno. He's not gonna K a lot of dudes without that hook though because he doesn't really have any other swing and miss pitches.

Quote from: Huey Potatohead on May 09, 2018, 04:14:55 PM

Quote from: SKO on May 09, 2018, 03:17:35 PM

Quote from: Huey Potatohead on May 08, 2018, 11:37:07 AM

here let me help you:

Suggested things to complain/worry about:

Rizzo's bat

how dare you, you entitled sonofabitch

I know, right?

Well I mean we'd already established that I was an entitled asshole.

Quote from: Huey Potatohead on May 08, 2018, 11:37:07 AM

here let me help you:

Suggested things to complain/worry about:

Rizzo's bat

how dare you, you entitled sonofabitch

Quote from: R-V on May 09, 2018, 02:36:07 PM

Quote from: SKO on May 09, 2018, 11:39:03 AM

Quote from: Saul Goodman on May 09, 2018, 11:20:35 AM
I've come around on this too, mostly because Russell continues to regress. This team is in win-now mode; he can go try to figure it out in Baltimore while Machado slides in at SS. GET IT DONE THEO

It's pretty simple:

Plan A) Machado Rental, Sign Harper:
2018: Contreras C, Rizzo 1B, Baez 2B, Machado SS, Bryant 3B, Schwarber LF, HappMora CF, HeyZo RF
2019: Contreras C, Rizzo 1B, Happ 2B, Baez SS, Bryant 3B, Schwarber LF, HeyMora CF, Harper RF

Plan B)Machado extension
See the 2018 lineup above.

Either way no one misses Addison Russell

What is the story on Machado's defense at SS? I shockingly do not follow the Orioles too closely, so other than knowing that his glove played well at 3B the last few years, I'm not sure what the consensus is on Machado sticking at SS long-term.

Fangraphs/BP/B-Ref all have him as below average there, but he looks more serviceable than, like, Theriot. Manny was -6.2 runs per FRAA per BP last year, Theriot in 2008 was -11.9. so he's probably more "meh but playable" with elite offense than "not really a shortstop."

Quote from: Saul Goodman on May 09, 2018, 11:20:35 AM
I've come around on this too, mostly because Russell continues to regress. This team is in win-now mode; he can go try to figure it out in Baltimore while Machado slides in at SS. GET IT DONE THEO

It's pretty simple:

Plan A) Machado Rental, Sign Harper:
2018: Contreras C, Rizzo 1B, Baez 2B, Machado SS, Bryant 3B, Schwarber LF, HappMora CF, HeyZo RF
2019: Contreras C, Rizzo 1B, Happ 2B, Baez SS, Bryant 3B, Schwarber LF, HeyMora CF, Harper RF

Plan B)Machado extension
See the 2018 lineup above.

Either way no one misses Addison Russell

Quote from: Saul Goodman on May 09, 2018, 10:45:11 AM
Question: Is Addison Russell's remaining team control worth half a season of Manny Machado?

For the Cubs or Orioles?

Anyway yes. In fact the Cubs would probably have to throw in adbert or something. And I'd be cool with it. Machado would make this lineup even better for a title run and they'd presumably get a chance to talk terms of an extension with him. If they don't win the Harper derby, Machado at SS would be a nice consolation prize.

speaking of this fucking bullpen it's like really fucking good. Hopefully the starters can start logging some more innings so they don't wear down in the second half like they did last year but so far this is the most reliable Cubs bullpen I can remember. I wish Morrow hadn't blown *that* particular save, but hard to bitch about him otherwise.

Quote from: Tonker on May 08, 2018, 04:53:13 PM

Quote from: SKO on May 08, 2018, 02:58:46 PM

Quote from: CT III on May 08, 2018, 02:39:43 PM

Quote from: SKO on May 08, 2018, 01:31:36 PM
It's amazing how this dude has gone all of the way from "dude you watch with a clenched butt because you never know when one of those 86 mph floaters is gonna get crushed" to "guy so routinely excellent we don't even bump this thread for an utterly effortless 8 inning outing." He's the best.

He's fulfilled our wildest dreams of being *looks back to the beginning of the thread* better than Randy Wells.

Jesus Christ are we all dumb.

All of us except *squints* Fork. Oh god.

Although he did, on the very same page, also express absolute confidence that Alcantara would be a solid major league hitter, so... you know...

I mean I think Nippon Professional Baseball is considered a major league over there

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on May 08, 2018, 03:53:34 PM
If 162 games divided out into innings, we're currently in the bottom of the second.

The Cubs are going to win the fucking World Serious, and when they do, I want you to remember the self-defecation you wallowed in on May Fucking Eighth.

I'm gonna remember, and laugh, and learn nothing, and do this all over again, and you can't stop me.

Quote from: CT III on May 08, 2018, 02:39:43 PM

Quote from: SKO on May 08, 2018, 01:31:36 PM
It's amazing how this dude has gone all of the way from "dude you watch with a clenched butt because you never know when one of those 86 mph floaters is gonna get crushed" to "guy so routinely excellent we don't even bump this thread for an utterly effortless 8 inning outing." He's the best.

He's fulfilled our wildest dreams of being *looks back to the beginning of the thread* better than Randy Wells.

Jesus Christ are we all dumb.

All of us except *squints* Fork. Oh god.