*****Official Cubs 2019 thread*****
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When you're a one-trick pony, it's really important to stay absolutely on-brand at all times. Nice work.
They need Baez to win the division. He is a great player. They don’t need Bryant he is holding everyone back. The best thing the Cubs can do is put him on waivers and see if a team would claim him.
Would love to play an AL schedule, so many free wins on those schedules.
And yet... when the better teams(NYY) play the LAD IN Los Angeles, they take two of three and should have swept except for a bad umpiring call.
Accustom yourself to seeing an AL team crowned WS champ in October. Your jealousy is not hard to see.
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I’m only a little stitious, but they just said next Friday, the THIRTEENTH is “Seniors Night.”
That just seem like asking for trouble!
That just seem like asking for trouble!
Cubs did catch a break on Rizzo's Sac Fly. They had Zobrist dead to rights at 2B but Yelich threw home.
Is Schwarber going to end up leading this team in RBIs this year???? He's got 81 now and chasing Rizzo and Baez.
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Takes some sting out if the Bears sh!tshow. I care about the Cubs more though, so, good night.
Takes some sting out if the Bears sh!tshow. I care about the Cubs more though, so, good night.
And yet... when the better teams(NYY) play the LAD IN Los Angeles, they take two of three and should have swept except for a bad umpiring call.
Accustom yourself to seeing an AL team crowned WS champ in October. Your jealousy is not hard to see.
You have to use single matchups to make any sort of argument that the AL is better. Houston is 11-9 against NL teams, Minnesota and Cleveland both have losing records. The NL is going to finish with its highest winning percentage ever against the AL. It’s just a fact that there’s about 35-45 gimmes on AL schedules. The Cubs would be pushing 95 wins at this point if they got 45 games against Baltimore, Detroit, KC, Seattle and Toronto.
If your argument is that the NL has a whole bunch of average, or slightly above average teams, we agree.
In the latest ESPN power rankings, the AL has 5 of the top 6 ranked teams. When you have that much power at the top... the bottom teams are more likely to be from the same league.
No one with a brain can question which league has the best teams. OK, maybe that statement doesn't apply to this thread and who posts.
And your statement about how the Cubs would fare in the AL is pure hyperbole.
Cubs are 12-8 against AL teams, same interleague record as the Yankees. Let them play all those crappy AL teams and they would also be over 90 wins, whole lot of bad teams in that league to inflate records.
Is Schwarber just on a hell of a hot streak or is he just finally putting everything together? He's got a .978 OPS for the month of Aug, a 1.004 OPS the last 28 days. I can't remember him having this long of a streak of solid hitting in his career before. He's looking like the guy we saw in the 2015 and 2016 playoffs.
He spent a large portion of this season platooning and leading off.
Now he’s playing everyday and batting 6/7, where he belongs.
Shocker, it’s paying off. He might end the season leading the team in HR and RBI.
The 6 worst interleague records this year all are for teams in the American League. I wonder what that means?
Royals 6-9
Orioles 6-11
White Sox 6-14
Mariners 4-10
Tigers 5-15
Blue Jays 3-17
The 6 worst interleague records this year all are for teams in the American League. I wonder what that means?
Royals 6-9
Orioles 6-11
White Sox 6-14
Mariners 4-10
Tigers 5-15
Blue Jays 3-17
The Yankees are 28-5 against the Orioles, Royals and Mariners. They somehow are only 9-7 against the historically bad Tigers and the Blue Jays. Hard to be impressed with their record when it comes with so many wins against basically AAA teams.
Joe will probably suddenly decide to put him at lead off again, because reasons. I've really grown tired of his constant line up tinkering.
I understand there are certain matchups and you have to give guys rest but this needs to be the lineup for the majority of this stretch run:
2B: Zobrist
RF: Castellanos
3B: Bryant
1B: Rizzo
SS: Baez
C: Contreras
LF: Schwarber
CF: Heyward
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If everyone is healthy, that’s a solid lineup.
2B: Zobrist
RF: Castellanos
3B: Bryant
1B: Rizzo
SS: Baez
C: Contreras
LF: Schwarber
CF: Heyward
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If everyone is healthy, that’s a solid lineup.
I have had the same thought. It seems as though this may be real. He is offsetting an injured Javy and an ineffective Bryant.
