Christian Yelich broke his kneecap and is out for the season. Javy Baez broke his thumb and is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. It's been a few years, but it looks like Cardinals Devil Magic is back
Atlanta Braves utility man Charlie Culberson suffered multiple facial fractures after being hit on the right cheekbone by a 91 mph fastball on Saturday, the team announced Sunday.
Culberson has been cleared to travel from Washington to Atlanta, where he will meet Sunday with the team's doctors to determine the next steps in his treatment, the team said.
Mike Trout is out for the season with foot surgery, not that the Angels were going anywhere this year, but I was hoping to see Trout hit 50 HRs and lead the AL. He still has an excellent shot at MVP with the numbers he ended with, ignoring all those 'but its not a playoff team!' whiners over what is an individual award.
The Cubs are done for the season, I believe. Maybe not mathematically, but it's the wrong time of the year to drop five games in a row at home. And I...have no idea what this team looks like next year. They don't have one or two big problems, they have a bunch of small problems, and you can't fix them all. Letting Joe Maddon go won't solve anything; he made some bad calls in the bullpen, but there were hardly any right ones to make. How do you solve something like not hitting with runners in scoring position? How do you fill multiple problems with the rotation?
I'm guessing Maddon is done. A lot of the roster is probably gone. I have no idea who, though I'd be stunned if Rizzo, Bryant, Contreras or Baez left. I'd guess Zobrist probably retires? Maybe? Fuck, who knows, it's a mess.
If I wanted a core to build around, I'd probably go with Bryant, Rizzo, Baez, Contreras. Darvish, Hendricks, Quintana for the starters. Fuck if I know what to do with the bullpen.
Castellanos has been great, but being in Tiger Country, I'm not sold on him long term.
Maybe Darvish can help Kimbrel stop tipping his pitches.
If I wanted a core to build around, I'd probably go with Bryant, Rizzo, Baez, Contreras. Darvish, Hendricks, Quintana for the starters. Fuck if I know what to do with the bullpen.
Castellanos has been great, but being in Tiger Country, I'm not sold on him long term.
Maybe Darvish can help Kimbrel stop tipping his pitches.
The only thing stopping Maddon from going to the Mets is probably their potato headed owners (unless they hire Girardi, which is also a saavy unMets move).
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The Cubs have been unlucky this year (per ESPN they're about 7 wins below their expected win/loss thing. the Brewers are...eight above it, the bastards). Their run differential is +112! They shouldn't be so close to .500. But you know, you lose a lot of close games when your bullpen struggles the whole year. I'm guessing part of why their road/home split is so bad is that at home they have an extra chance to fix things when the bullpen fucks up? I'm sure someone will put together a good postmortem for this season at some point.
Mostly I've been pretty zen about it, since they still have Addisson Russell on the payroll and at least the team's owners won't get a bunch of playoff ticket sales to use to fund their Trump superPAC
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alright but what's their run differential when you remove all the Pirates games
Someone in the replies to the quoted tweet pointed out the Cubs played 12% of their games against the Pirates, and that probably matches the Cardinals and Brewers numbers, too. So they got a boost from the Pirates, though maybe not that significant of one.
Either way, the tweet I posted is a response to someone making a bad argument, and it's pretty similar to a discussion we had in the thread. Thought it was interesting to have some actual numbers to attach to the discussion
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be interesting to see how many Cubs players get beaned today!
Jesus, this so bad I bet some Reds get beaned too
The Cubs scored 47 runs over the course of the series, which is a new franchise record.
they only scored eight tonight time to pack it in for the season
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I'm guessing Maddon is done. A lot of the roster is probably gone. I have no idea who, though I'd be stunned if Rizzo, Bryant, Contreras or Baez left. I'd guess Zobrist probably retires? Maybe? Fuck, who knows, it's a mess.
I think Cubs just got on the unlucky side of variance. That home/road split is sort of insane.
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If I wanted a core to build around, I'd probably go with Bryant, Rizzo, Baez, Contreras. Darvish, Hendricks, Quintana for the starters. Fuck if I know what to do with the bullpen.
Castellanos has been great, but being in Tiger Country, I'm not sold on him long term.
Maybe Darvish can help Kimbrel stop tipping his pitches.
The only thing stopping Maddon from going to the Mets is probably their potato headed owners (unless they hire Girardi, which is also a saavy unMets move).
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Mostly I've been pretty zen about it, since they still have Addisson Russell on the payroll and at least the team's owners won't get a bunch of playoff ticket sales to use to fund their Trump superPAC
also Kris Bryant just fucked up his leg trying to beat out a double play in a probably meaningless game
Nearly 30% of your differential coming from one team is probably a bad sign!
Also dang that sucks.
Wonder how that run differential percentage works for say...the Yankees and Orioles.
So leave Darvish in, and he proceeds to give up the lead.
I give up.
Cleveland and Tigers, too
It's me, again!
Either way, the tweet I posted is a response to someone making a bad argument, and it's pretty similar to a discussion we had in the thread. Thought it was interesting to have some actual numbers to attach to the discussion
And some other teams beating up on division foes:
The 12% of games thing applies here, too
And Clint Hurdle is still going to manage the Pirates next year:
He has two years on his contract and the Pirates are cheap, that's the only reasonable explanation for this
The owners being cheap is the only explantation