Awesome. Our highest paid reliever brought his ERA down from 7.58 and the league isn’t hitting .300 against him anymore after he got demoted to garbage time (I believe today was only the 4th game for him in that stretch decided by fewer than 3 runs). Maybe he should go back there.
with Taillon pitching you can make that 13-0
Since the NYY suck as well, mind if I hang around for the weekend and do a bit of shit talking?
Actually based on my pledge this spring...this will be it by the current scenario.
I won't even call these guys atrocious anymore, its ridiculous to keep asking them to do something the human eye/brain just isn't capable of doing consistently. Even the best umps are gonna miss calls and those blown calls are going to determine games. It completely undermines the integrity of the game and there's no reason for it.
Cubs have won 6 of 9 against TB, NY, and Baltimore.
And it only took 24 pitches.
Fulmer’s stuff was pretty good even when he was getting hit. The numbers were always going to improve, but he did absolutely have to be pulled out of those high leverage spots for a while.
We’ll see what happens in the series after the break, especially those first 10 games with BOS, WAS and STL. They can absolutely get back into the race.
The Yankees stink. I figured out in today’s game that McKinney is a Cubs castoff. And, it turns out we were able to survive without Torres.
And not a recent castoff. I’m pretty sure the Cubs got him in the Addison Russell deal and then sent him to NY in the Starlin Castro deal. Pretty sure he’s made more rounds than that and the Yanks brought him back.
But as I talked about this week - what’s the point of a trade? If the Cubs trade Stroman, Gomes, Bellinger and maybe also Smyly, Hendricks, Leiter, Fulmer, Merryweather, then they got into 2024 with more holes than they can dream of filling in an offseason. If you’re going to deal Stroman or Bellinger, you have to get max value.
