*****Official Cubs 2019 thread*****
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Well, it's pretty safe to say they'd likely win 115 games if they played in the NL Central... aka the race to the bottom.
Lester has gone from looking lost at the plate with no ability to make good contact in 2015 to closing in on batting 200 and clubbing doubles and home runs by 2019.
Holy Cow! What a way to end the game!
Very good win.
Team looks a bit different right now.
Very good win.
Team looks a bit different right now.
And give up their 30 free wins against the Os and Jays? Right.
This is why I refuse to be a convert to the DH. It is not too much to ask for a pitcher to be able to contribute to their team offensively. Today was an outlier, but Lester was useless at the plate when he joined the Cubs. He has worked at that aspect of his game. Pitchers will never match DHs, but I’d rather have them try, come through occasionally, and make the managers work a little harder than just stuff a one dimensional player in the batting order.
His batting avg, OBP, and slugging are all higher than Russell and Almora. Then again, Russell is only 244 points higher than mine and I don't even play.
Not to mention the 6 or 7 each against the Tigers, Royals and mariners. So many free wins in the AL.
I’ll keep feeding the troll just for the sake of embarrassing you.
No metrics out there agree with you. So, I’ll side with objective data over the subjective opinion of a know-nothing blowhard.
Keep going... please.
Your ignorance is quite entertaining.
You’re the only one laughing.
Of course I'm laughing! There are only about three posters in this thread that truly realize how pathetic the Tallest Midget, aka NL Central, really is.
Everyone else thinks it's just "balanced".
Your ignorance of actual baseball is astounding. There are 5 teams in the American League with less than 40 wins. Hell, there are 2 with less than 30. In the National League, only Miami is less than 40 wins. But keep on talking how the American League is soooo much better. The American League is very top heavy and nobody in in the middle, whereas the National League has the Dodgers, and a little behind them the Braves, then a bunch packed. That bunch is a lot harder to pull away from than the bottom of the American League.
Take your stupid Yankee/ AL drivwl somewhere else.
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The line up isn’t out for today, but if Javy starts at SS and he gets hit by a pitch, or just takes one under the chin he is going to charge the mound. It would be nice if the crew chief showed some leadership before the game starts. It’s getting tense.
Quintana did well. Had a tough, what was it, 3rd inning? Couple of balls that may have been caught with more aggressive defense, but some of the hard hit balls were on him. Other than that he was solid.
Good offense, too, after taking it on the chin from Pittsburgh before the break.
Good win.
Alec Mills from AAA Iowa will start Tuesday's game
https://www.bleachernation.com/2019...ill-come-up-to-start-for-the-cubs-on-tuesday/
https://www.bleachernation.com/2019...ill-come-up-to-start-for-the-cubs-on-tuesday/
For one, he's not on the 40-man. To call him up, they'd have to cut someone.
I think this has been discussed before, but I thought the Cubs had a $1 million buyout on Descalso for 2020. I was listening to Cubs beat writer Mark Gonzalez on the Score a bit ago and he said he is guaranteed his full contract through next season, and there is a buyout of 2021. He said he mentioned it to Descalso in ST because this means he is guaranteed a 10 year pension since he has 8 years of service time already.
It isn't huge money, but a total of $2.5 million wasted on Descalso next year could be the difference between getting a bullpen arm you want, or seeing that player sign somewhere else.
It isn't huge money, but a total of $2.5 million wasted on Descalso next year could be the difference between getting a bullpen arm you want, or seeing that player sign somewhere else.
Will not like this, but, yeah. No reason to trade for a catcher. Big price if they are giving up Montgomery.
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