*****Official Cubs 2019 thread*****
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This is the game that the cubs have no shot in winning, they will therefore win 12-0.
The next four games, the Cubs face Strasbourg, Stroman, Syndergaard, and deGrom.
Our only hope is Cardinal losses.
Our only hope is Cardinal losses.
If the Cubs don’t get their shit together it won’t matter anyway.
Hard to watch this team with so much potential, but very little going on from the neck up. I thought Castellanos would spark the team, but all too often they seem resigned to hope for the best rather than going out and taking it.
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We're just going to have to sweep the rest of the season series and put the Nationals out of their misery, I guess.
Don't get your hopes up. The Cardinals have one losing season in the last 20 years. ONE...1
No one misuses/abuses a bullpen like Joe Maddon. Eight pitchers in eleven innings? And saves the best one for last.
Mgmt needs for more than a few guys to get hot before the end of the season to make them trade bait. Bryant for a #2 starter, KS to an AL team for a #3, maybe Caratini has trade value.
And for those that care about legit WS possibilities... the NYY take 2 of 3 from the LAD, in LA, and should have swept except for a bad umpiring call.
I guess the NYY do have the ability to beat teams not named the Orioles and the Royals.
If the relief pitchers did their jobs the Cubs would not be in the mess the team is in now.
You can blame management all you want, but at the end of the day the players have to perform, and they are not performing anywhere near their capabilities. They are simply mentally weak.
Today is a good day to talk about some Cubs prospects. Both Brailyn Marquez and Miguel Amaya are doing very well at Carolina. I saw a stat last week that in his last 34 games Amaya was slashing 313/426/536. That is with a BB rate of 14.7, and a SO rate of 12.5. His season slash line is 241/365/405. That puts him 10th in his league, but considering that he is 20 years old, and the youngest of the top 10, it is impressive. And, Amaya in many eyes has been considered a defensive catcher first. So, what offense you get from him will be gravy.
Marquez has jumped from South Bend to Carolina this season, and has been dominant with a fastball that touches 100mph.
Part of this is behind a pay wall, but he is a guy who conceivably could see Wrigley in 2020. I am less optimistic, because he needs a lot of situational work, and pitch awareness, but his raw talent may get him a cup of coffee assuming he transitions to Tennessee.
https://www.bleachernation.com/2019...nt-of-cubs-pitching-prospect-brailyn-marquez/
Marquez has jumped from South Bend to Carolina this season, and has been dominant with a fastball that touches 100mph.
Part of this is behind a pay wall, but he is a guy who conceivably could see Wrigley in 2020. I am less optimistic, because he needs a lot of situational work, and pitch awareness, but his raw talent may get him a cup of coffee assuming he transitions to Tennessee.
https://www.bleachernation.com/2019...nt-of-cubs-pitching-prospect-brailyn-marquez/
I would agree, but Epstein has been really inept with the majority of his roster moves, sans Castellanos, over the last few years. Just a few guys that were available like LaMahieu and Urshela and dealing TLS with nothing in return. He was being cheap by waiting too long to sign Kimbrel. Kimbrel could have saved a few of those blown bullpen games in April/May. Theo knew the bullpen was a liability when the season started.
That said... Maddon's overuse of guys is glaring and his history of mishandling pitching staffs is well known. Maddon doesn't give a shit as he's a lame duck manager, and it shows.
The members of the Theo Epstein Infallibility Club seem to be dwindling.
He is not the best exec in baseball and anybody who thinks so is clearly not paying attention.
Some apologists on Twitter who I follow (guys with 5K - 10K followers) are acknowledging that the player development in the Cubs organization is atrocious.
Theo will leave the Cubs in a similar manner to how he left Boston (who randomly won the 2013 World Series between last place finishes in 2012, 2014, and 2015).
The best measure of a baseball executive is the frequency with which they win their division - playoff baseball involves more luck than the NBA, where the best team wins each year barring injury or suspension.
Theo has won 3 division titles in 16 years running an organization.
He is not the best exec in baseball and anybody who thinks so is clearly not paying attention.
Some apologists on Twitter who I follow (guys with 5K - 10K followers) are acknowledging that the player development in the Cubs organization is atrocious.
Theo will leave the Cubs in a similar manner to how he left Boston (who randomly won the 2013 World Series between last place finishes in 2012, 2014, and 2015).
The best measure of a baseball executive is the frequency with which they win their division - playoff baseball involves more luck than the NBA, where the best team wins each year barring injury or suspension.
Theo has won 3 division titles in 16 years running an organization.
Linked is an article that describes the end of Theo's Boston tenure.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2012/08/27/red-sox-were-left-in-disarray-by-theo-espstein/
Here is what I would do if I were Tom Ricketts:
If the Cubs win the division:
-Tell Theo to stay the course, but please fire Jason McLeod.
If the Cubs fail to win the division:
-Demand Theo fires Jason McLeod and Jed Hoyer. Let him have a payroll up to about the $227M luxury tax threshold.
If the Cubs fail to win the Division AND are not contending at next deadline:
-Trade Kris Bryant (who will have 1.5 years left) and other coveted assets to bring back prospects (similar to what Yankees did in 2016). The rebuild won't be that painful that way.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2012/08/27/red-sox-were-left-in-disarray-by-theo-espstein/
Here is what I would do if I were Tom Ricketts:
If the Cubs win the division:
-Tell Theo to stay the course, but please fire Jason McLeod.
If the Cubs fail to win the division:
-Demand Theo fires Jason McLeod and Jed Hoyer. Let him have a payroll up to about the $227M luxury tax threshold.
If the Cubs fail to win the Division AND are not contending at next deadline:
-Trade Kris Bryant (who will have 1.5 years left) and other coveted assets to bring back prospects (similar to what Yankees did in 2016). The rebuild won't be that painful that way.
27-14. Yankeesque type numbers. Yankees doing it all year, tho.
If the Cubs were remotely close to 500 on the road, they'd be running away with the division. Good teams play around 600 ball at home and slightly better than 500 on the road.
Cubs need nearly a total rebuild. Only about 5-6 guys should be safe.
StL has been beating up on the lower half of the NLC and lesser teams outside the division. In other words, they're beating who they should beat, road or home.
Just how good that makes them, dunno. The gauntlet of Astros/@ Dodgers/@A's they went 1-7...reality came back around. Otherwise, been cleaning up during this stretch.
Got at Milwaukee M-W coming here this week, then the Reds weekend (DH Saturday). Then it thins out again with weaker teams.
It would not surprise me at all that Yelich gets walked 3x per game if not more and they make the others beat them. Yelich MAULED StL at Milwaukee in April.
StL needs to keep piling on teams lacking a heartbeat and pile up a cushion, because they finish the season Brewers/Nats/@Cubs/@DBacks/Cubs.
I believe it's gonna come down to the 7 against the Cubs no matter what.
McLeod probably needs to go regardless of how this season finishes. Besides the top end prospects, there has not been enough production from the minors.
Not so sure. When he arrived in Boston, they were already a good franchise and Duquette had already assembled a very good roster. Epstein left the Red Sox in disarray.
In Chicago, he did get that elusive WS title, but the Cubs certainly seem to be disarray now, only three years later.
To me, that's not a HOF resume'.
Did you see how they bitch slapped the NL's best team, by a mile, this weekend? Outscored them 16-5.
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