Ok, this is a little much. Walking in the Cubs were considered a good lineup and good starting staff. The bullpen was iffy. They had depth everywhere except third base and first. Busch has been way better than we thought. The rest seemed to slump all together. Injuries just kept piling on. Baseball is a 162 game season for a reason. It starts to even out. They have lost a ton of one run games and played the most one run games in the majors. The team wasnt never getting slaughtered. They were getting untimely hitting and giving up timely hits. We see how this goes, but this isnt a cellar dwellar team of talent. It just snowballed.
I think the lineup is pretty mediocre at best (certainly they are in a nice stretch right now). The bullpen is awful and has loads of injuries. Maybe they'll continue getting better, but they continue to use guys who've lacked any sort of consistency in their careers. Rotation is pretty solid. Defense is certainly playing better but C, seiya and Morel are issues in the field. Morel continues to baffle me as to why he plays everyday while contributing next to nothing.
I figured we will lose first game today with Wesneski pinching he's been mostly bad.. Not sure about the nightcap because Asad just of the injured list. Cubs have only 3 quality starters and it shows..
He is not awful as a spot starter. It was some luck by the Cards but it just snowballed by bad D mostly by him.
Thank you. It is nice to hear a voice of reason.
Maybe. But if you look objectively and see a team with every starter on the IL, CF and RF on IL, several relievers even if they are not the Nasty Boyz, and they’re hovering near .500 , I think you’d say that’s not bad.
No,they would simply bring up a kid who can help...even if it's short term. Every team in this division does it except one....guess who that is?
Killian was on the IL until a week ago.
What? They were never considered a World Series threat but they were def. considered a top team in the division. With all this losing? They can go into the break a couple of games behind the second wild card. Its baseball. It's a long second half.
Yeah, so in summation they have not lived up to expectations as a team
Poorly constructed. I don't blame any of the players. It's not liked they applied for the job. These are Hoyer's guys. Almost all of them gift wrapped to Chicago by Jed.
The guy who broke his hand was called up after a hundred injuries and barely saw action.
Porter hodge has mostly been great and has incredible stuff and he's been stuck behind a long line of complete garbage including the current closer
I never even heard of Hodge or Bigge....but thats not my job. You got a guy thats had some success and another that throws 100 mph and yet they sit in AAA or where ever the hell they were, while Jed's Dumpster Dive crew featuring Cuas, Palencia and Lovelady gets their brains beat in. Only owner in MLB that wouldn'y dump this guy is the one on the northside.
