*****Official Cubs 2018 thread*****
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crapwood sucks! Yep, sure hope AAJ is fine!
3 straight 10 runs games is nice to see. Clearly that bum KB is holding the team back....time to trade him!
14 runs on no homers.....pretty impressive day, even against the twins.
The Cubs were an amazing 11-22 with RISP today, and had 17 singles.
I am superstitious in all things sports, and I can’t seem to suffer my way through success. I’ll just mention a much maligned player finished June with a line of 327/364/510, with 10 doubles and 3 homers. If something anywhere near that holds I might allow myself to be mildly optimistic about the remainder of his contract.
I am superstitious in all things sports, and I can’t seem to suffer my way through success. I’ll just mention a much maligned player finished June with a line of 327/364/510, with 10 doubles and 3 homers. If something anywhere near that holds I might allow myself to be mildly optimistic about the remainder of his contract.
These last two games have been a lot of fun. Tremendous AB's.
I'm lazy, but didn't Duensing just come off of the bereavement list? I thought yesterday was one of his first appearances since he came back, and he's fatigued? He was scuffling before the bereavement time off.
Yeah, that looks and sounds more like a long term thing. He certainly could have fatigue or inflammation in the shoulder.
I just don't understand the insane love for this guy. All this big contract talk for a guy who has had an obp over 350 ONE time in SIX years????
Seems insane.
Anyhow, cubs have solid D and many guys who can hit for power but not get on base enough. I'll take harper all day, even with injuries.
We just gave up 25 runs in 3 games to the twins, not exactly impressive
.Hopefully we can get our pen back in order soon. Hopefully CJ did good job at Iowa today.
That said, our schedule sure is easy for the next few weeks!
And, no need for Machado. It's very clear the Cubs need bullpen help, and maybe a solid innings eater depending on what happens with Darvish.
Dumping Giminzez and bringing up Caratini is the #1 regular player move I'd make right now.
My son was at the game and got Lesters homer. CSB
That is a little surprising, but then again we have played a lot of mediocre pitching so far.
That or maybe I'm just a jinx....
I like our pen....at least when it is healthy and fully available!
The "darvish effect" is KILLING us! That little pussy needs to go out and earn his money!
Taking mimo from the pen hurts a lot and puts a lot more pressure on the others. If we can get them healthy come Sept/Oct...pen doesn't really worry me. I just hope we don't see crapwood in the pen come oct!!
Is all this machado talk for this year or next year? If next year, there are some top notch relievers out there and sure hope the cubs add 1 of them. If it is this year, anyone talking about trading addy for machado is nuts imo.
You can always get better in the pen. Theo and Jed have done a great job each year of finding useful arms, but you can always have more. Especially for the post season, which I expect the Cubs to make again.
Machado is a rental. His contract is up after this season, and the Orioles will want a lot in return. I think a lot of the talk about Machado to the Cubs is lazy journalism, and his agent trying to drive talks.
They haven't played more mediocre pitching than any other teams, they just have the best offense in the NL.
It's too bad they can't feast on crappy AL pitching all the time like this weekend.
Cub fans should thank their lucky stars they haven't faced good teams like the Yanks/Boston/Seattle/Houston this year. It's pretty easy to inflate the offensive numbers when they've been able to avoid the four best teams in MLB.
How do you think the Yankees, Red Sox, Astros, … have inflated their numbers? By beating each other? There are too many teams tanking this year for any one fan base to claim their team's wins are more significant than another team's wins.
The al has more teams with losing records, more teams under .400 and more teams under .300. Al sucks.
Check out the Yankees record against Boston/Houston/Seattle and get back to me.
Any one of those four teams would crush the NL right now.
