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*****Official Cubs 2024 thread*****

I am going to ask the brain trust here about Porter Hodge. Can hit upper 90s on the fastball. Good slider. Strikes guys out. Why not give him a shot as the closer? Seems to fit the profile of a hard throwing, strikeout pitcher with a second pitch.

Can't be any worse than what we've trotted out there this season.
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Vinny, we hardly knew ye. Signed one day, DFA'd the next day.
Sounds like the organization is rather clueless about what to do with this pitching staff. Not criticizing; I don’t know WTF to do, either. The entire relief staff is either hurt or sucks or both…
 
Just in the games I've recently watched, Amaya has 3 catchers interference calls in about the last 3 weeks. This is a rarely called infraction but seems to be all too common for him.

Also, Belli just got doubled off first on a long fly ball out with one out. WTF?
 
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Just in the games I've recently watched, Amaya has 3 catchers interference calls in about the last 3 weeks. This is a rarely called infraction but seems to be all too common for him.

Also, Belli just got doubled off first on a long fly ball out with one out. WTF?
I think they have moved Amaya closer to the plate in an effort to speed throws to 2nd due to his abysmal rate of throwing out base stealers.
 
What being a Cubs fan has been like since about 2019,

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Just in the games I've recently watched, Amaya has 3 catchers interference calls in about the last 3 weeks. This is a rarely called infraction but seems to be all too common for him.

Also, Belli just got doubled off first on a long fly ball out with one out. WTF?

Belli was running on the pitch, but he didn't do a good job of picking up the 3B coach or finding the ball (which can be hard). The fact is the Cubs are trying to generate runs and running into a lot of outs on the bases. Tough to watch.
 
Belli was running on the pitch, but he didn't do a good job of picking up the 3B coach or finding the ball (which can be hard). The fact is the Cubs are trying to generate runs and running into a lot of outs on the bases. Tough to watch.
There’s also a good chance he didn’t know how many outs there were.
 
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I'm glad we got our 2 runs early today.🥴

Steele with only 13 pitches through 2 innings. Maybe he can pitch a CG and we can avoid the BP today.
 
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It's time, just put us out of our misery.

Whoever is in charge made the team worse in the off-season.

I liked that Steele went into the dugout droping F-bombs to his teammates.
 
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