José Quintana: a Cub.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

7 of his 10 Cubs starts have been quality starts (1 was a 5 inning 1 ER outing in the 15-5 win over Toronto. The other two were the meltdowns). Hopefully he can just avoid meltdowns in October?

The Cubs just need to not score when he pitches.  He's used to pitching with no margin for error, as evidenced by his freakish run with the Sox of pitching well and never getting support.  When the Cubs score runs he's bad.

This is a sarcastic post by the way but it does strike me as funny that he seems to pitch better when he gets no offensive support.

[Quality Start Machine]

7 of his 10 Cubs starts have been quality starts (1 was a 5 inning 1 ER outing in the 15-5 win over Toronto. The other two were the meltdowns). Hopefully he can just avoid meltdowns in October?

The Cubs just need to not score when he pitches.  He's used to pitching with no margin for error, as evidenced by his freakish run with the Sox of pitching well and never getting support.  When the Cubs score runs he's bad.

This is a sarcastic post by the way but it does strike me as funny that he seems to pitch better when he gets no offensive support.

Am I wrong, or is this also true of Wade Davis? He never seems to lock in until the game is in the balance.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

7 of his 10 Cubs starts have been quality starts (1 was a 5 inning 1 ER outing in the 15-5 win over Toronto. The other two were the meltdowns). Hopefully he can just avoid meltdowns in October?

The Cubs just need to not score when he pitches.  He's used to pitching with no margin for error, as evidenced by his freakish run with the Sox of pitching well and never getting support.  When the Cubs score runs he's bad.

This is a sarcastic post by the way but it does strike me as funny that he seems to pitch better when he gets no offensive support.

Am I wrong, or is this also true of Wade Davis? He never seems to lock in until the game is in the balance.

Seems to be some truth there.  I can recall a couple games where he came into a non-save situation and was suddenly facing the tying/winning run at the plate.  He was the motherfucking balls last night with almost no margin for error.

[SKO]

 Not the most efficient dude in the world but now up to 8/11 Quality Starts as a Cub. 9/11 (NEVER FORGET) have been 3 ER or less. Cub ERA is 3.88, with a 3.64 FIP, which in today's offensive environment is pretty solid, and he's getting more strikeouts as a Cub than he's ever gotten before. I daresay he might be alright. If they can just get Jake back and picking up where he left off, and hang on to win this division, I'd happily matchup this rotation in a playoff series vs any other in the NL. The only major league rotation I'd take over a healthy Jake/Kyle/Jon/Q in a short series is probably Cleveland.

[SKO]

God damn that was great. Really sorely needed by the bullpen

[Saul Goodman]

God damn that was great. Really sorely needed by the bullpen

Also a great way to answer after their fluke homers off Wade yesterday. You can have one win, Brewers. That's all.

[Brownie]

God damn that was great. Really sorely needed by the bullpen

Also a great way to answer after their fluke homers off Wade yesterday. You can have one win, Brewers. That's all.

One Win? I thought Shaw won them the fucking World Series yesterday.

[Saul Goodman]

God damn that was great. Really sorely needed by the bullpen

Also a great way to answer after their fluke homers off Wade yesterday. You can have one win, Brewers. That's all.

One Win? I thought Shaw won them the fucking World Series yesterday.

Judging from the Brewers' radio call by Not Bob Uecker that I was stuck with on Sirius, the Brewers won all of the World Series, forever, and the announcer came four times.

[SKO]

Jose Quintana, Cub edition updated:
13 GS, 7-3, 79.2 IP, 3.50 ERA, 3.38 FIP, 1.09 WHIP, .221 BAA, 10.5 K/9, 2.37 BB/9. He's also up to 3.7 fWAR on the year which ranks him 15th among all qualified SP.

[SKO]

I feel bad Q is basically having his ERA tanked by a bunch of weak grounders that escaped the Elite Infield Defense that is Alex Avila/TLS/Mike Freeman/Ian Happ

[Tonker]

I feel bad Q is basically having his ERA tanked by a bunch of weak grounders that escaped the Elite Infield Defense that is Alex Avila/TLS/Mike Freeman/Ian Happ

There were several plays last night where I immediately thought "Russell/Baez/Rizzo" makes that.

EDIT: except in my head, I put the inverted commas in the right place.

[CT III]

I feel bad Q is basically having his ERA tanked by a bunch of weak grounders that escaped the Elite Infield Defense that is Alex Avila/TLS/Mike Freeman/Ian Happ

There were several plays last night where I immediately thought "Russell/Baez/Rizzo" makes that.

I also think that when I see other team's starting infields fail to make plays and it makes me feel great.

[Bort]

I feel bad Q is basically having his ERA tanked by a bunch of weak grounders that escaped the Elite Infield Defense that is Alex Avila/TLS/Mike Freeman/Ian Happ

There were several plays last night where I immediately thought "Russell/Baez/Rizzo" makes that.

I also think that when I see other team's starting infields fail to make plays and it makes me feel great.

I wonder if I will ever internalize the fact that the Cubs have solid infield defense.

[Quality Start Machine]

I feel bad Q is basically having his ERA tanked by a bunch of weak grounders that escaped the Elite Infield Defense that is Alex Avila/TLS/Mike Freeman/Ian Happ

There were several plays last night where I immediately thought "Russell/Baez/Rizzo" makes that.

I also think that when I see other team's starting infields fail to make plays and it makes me feel great.

Watch any game involving two not-Cubs teams and you're guaranteed you'll see two plays you currently take for granted not getting made. It's fucking awesome,

[SKO]

Hell yeah