Cardinals at Cubs IST

[zack54attack]

And Olt is killing me.

 

[chibears55]

Starting to lose hope for Olt, though it would be nice to see him play 3-4 games in a row to see if he just needs consistent ABs

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[zack54attack]

Starting to lose hope for Olt, though it would be nice to see him play 3-4 games in a row to see if he just needs consistent ABs

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Him getting more AB's was big.. But so far, he's struggled.

 

[zack54attack]

Cubs win.

 

[chibears55]

SHHHHH.. Cubs have just won 3 of last 4 games

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[JZsportsfan]

Offense feels as it is starting to come alive. Lake will likely see a big increase in starts with Sweeney likely going to hit the DL. Love what I've seen so far from Rizzo, Castro, and Castillo. Wood is still performing well. Need to give Samardzija some run support. Hopefully we can win our first series this weekend then take at least 3 next week from the Sox

 

[dabynsky]

SHHHHH.. Cubs have just won 3 of last 4 games

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Last 14 days the Cubs record is 6-6. Progress, but far too late to mean anything for this year.

 

[chibears55]

Last 14 days the Cubs record is 6-6. Progress, but far too late to mean anything for this year.

Yea but progress for me isn't their record, im more interested in seeing progress made by a couple of their regulars...


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[nwfisch]

Castro just smoked a ball. He is putting great swings on the ball when the count is in his favor. Thats fucking awesome.

Rizzo, Castro, and Castillo are all pulling their weight. There is hope for this team.

Yay! They might lose ONLY 90 games instead of 100.

 

[beckdawg]

Can we get Flash Gordon back? He probably can still pitch better then half these scrubs.

At least the whole bullpen isn't shit. Rondon, Grimm and Wright have been pretty great. Strop hasn't been bad. Villanueva hopefully should be better out of the pen. If the rehab stint on Veras can fix him they could end up being a pretty solid unit sooner or later.

 

[CSF77]

Offense feels as it is starting to come alive. Lake will likely see a big increase in starts with Sweeney likely going to hit the DL. Love what I've seen so far from Rizzo, Castro, and Castillo. Wood is still performing well. Need to give Samardzija some run support. Hopefully we can win our first series this weekend then take at least 3 next week from the Sox

Sweeney pulled a hamy. I hope they promote Szczur. Give him some time in CF. He is on the 40 man and doesn't require a roster move off of the 40. Vitters was hitting .202. If he sustained he would be the guy.

 

[dabynsky]

Sweeney pulled a hamy. I hope they promote Szczur. Give him some time in CF. He is on the 40 man and doesn't require a roster move off of the 40. Vitters was hitting .202. If he sustained he would be the guy.

Coghlan was apparently scratched from the lineup and a lot of speculation that he is the callup. Fujikawa could be moved to the 60 day DL to create the 40 man roster spot.

 

[CSF77]

Coghlan was apparently scratched from the lineup and a lot of speculation that he is the callup. Fujikawa could be moved to the 60 day DL to create the 40 man roster spot.

Typical conservative filler roster adjustment. Cog has no future with this team. The wise move would to get either Szczur who is a career 4 OF or start up Alcantara's clock early.

I'm partial to Alcantara. Make Boni a full time CF promote Alcantara full time 2B. Let Kalish split time in RF and LF. Sweeney gets a magical 60 day DL from a hammy pull. Solves much. When Baez is ready trade Castro and gear up for 2015.

 

[CSF77]

At least the whole bullpen isn't shit. Rondon, Grimm and Wright have been pretty great. Strop hasn't been bad. Villanueva hopefully should be better out of the pen. If the rehab stint on Veras can fix him they could end up being a pretty solid unit sooner or later.

Bet Rondon ends up as the closer after all is said and done.

 

[CSF77]

I'm liking Ramirez. Solid SO ratio. Grimm has a blip but over all solid. Wright has gotten better. Strop is on more than off. He is still no a go to for me. Russell they are better avoiding as much as they can. Rosscup they need to see what he can do more in that role.

Pen is looking better just by staying away from Russell and Veras going down.

 

[SilenceS]

Yay! They might lose ONLY 90 games instead of 100.

So, seeing the true core of players going forward doing well doesnt excite you? This is what all Cubs fans wanted to see.

 

[SilenceS]

At least the whole bullpen isn't shit. Rondon, Grimm and Wright have been pretty great. Strop hasn't been bad. Villanueva hopefully should be better out of the pen. If the rehab stint on Veras can fix him they could end up being a pretty solid unit sooner or later.

Veras is straight garbage. Hated when he was signed. Nelson Cruz would look so much better on this team then him. That money could have went to signing him. Hell, this team probably is alot closer to 500 if they had another player who can drive in runs.

 

[beckdawg]

Veras is straight garbage. Hated when he was signed. Nelson Cruz would look so much better on this team then him. That money could have went to signing him. Hell, this team probably is alot closer to 500 if they had another player who can drive in runs.

Maybe Veras is total shit even after rehab. I'm just saying right now the cubs relievers have a 3.62 ERA with a 8.30 k/9 4.68 bb/9. The walks need to come down though. As for Cruz probably, but whatever they weren't going to give up a 2nd round pick for him. Even if they had signed him he's probably not much of a longer term solution seeing as the only deal he got a 1 year deal. I'd like to see them do something about the OF obviously but there's probably other better options out there than Cruz. Hopefully they can string enough wins together this month to make trading for some players at the deadline worth while. Not anything huge obviously but a decent guy would be nice. Honestly, I sorta wish they'd kept Dejesus considering what they got for him.

 

[CSF77]

They did not need Cruz. Another RH bat to go along with Baez and Bryant?

I did not like the all in to Tanaka. They went after Hammel off the bat then made a offer to Granderson it would have made more sense.

Still right now they could fix the teams problems by making Lake full time inLF and bat him #6 for now. If he starts to take over bump him up to the clean up.

I would move Kalish toSweeney's role in CF with Boni platooning.

They would have been better off retaining Sori if they wanted a carry over this year. They didn't and sold. They are not going to add a contact thT doesn't make sense past this year.

 

[SilenceS]

Nice catch by Castro. Jake the snake gets out of the inning.