6/13/2022 - 6/26/2022 Game Discussion Thread

[DamnYanks2]

Higgy with a 3 run blast.

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[countryboy]

Not the best outing by Flaherty but not the worst. He didn't get much help either. At least he won't be tagged for a loss in his first start of the year.

[WaitTilNextYear]

As poorly as the Cubs are playing overall, Daniel Norris has been especially bad out of the bullpen. Hopefully, we can do something with that roster spot.

[WaitTilNextYear]

Cubs giving up another double digit score (3 out of the last 4 games). I mean the Yankees and Padres are both good, but maybe we need some better pitchers? Have to start wondering about the coaching staff also.

[Speedy]

This is a weird time of the season to win 14 games in a row.

[Jr.]

Quote: Originally Posted by WaitTilNextYear

Cubs giving up another double digit score (3 out of the last 4 games). I mean the Yankees and Padres are both good, but maybe we need some better pitchers? Have to start wondering about the coaching staff also.

The drop-off for Hendricks has been weird, but other than that it's hard for me to put much blame on the coaches. There's just a serious lack of talent on the MLB roster, especially on the pitching staff. They've managed to get some great production (relatively speaking) out of historically bad players. I credit that to the coaching/development staff. No one expected the team to be good this year though.

The return on the inevitable Contreras trade needs to be great. The injury to Brennan Davis sucks, him and Morel would be a fun reason to watch the road to 100 Ls. Hopefully Killian gets to just stay up and keep pitching. Maybe some young arms can come up and replace these vets in the bullpen that aren't doing much.

[Blzer]

I have both Miles Mikolas and Tyler Anderson on my fantasy baseball team. Thanks for the hard work, boys.

[WaitTilNextYear]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jr.

The drop-off for Hendricks has been weird, but other than that it's hard for me to put much blame on the coaches. There's just a serious lack of talent on the MLB roster, especially on the pitching staff. They've managed to get some great production (relatively speaking) out of historically bad players. I credit that to the coaching/development staff. No one expected the team to be good this year though. The return on the inevitable Contreras trade needs to be great. The injury to Brennan Davis sucks, him and Morel would be a fun reason to watch the road to 100 Ls. Hopefully Killian gets to just stay up and keep pitching. Maybe some young arms can come up and replace these vets in the bullpen that aren't doing much.

I must've been a bit more optimistic than you in the preseason. I expected closer to .500 and see this bunch as underachieving (injuries haven't helped). If we were entering a bonafide rebuild, the contracts for Marcus Stroman and Seiya Suzuki don't make any sense. I can understand the shorter deals for Wade Mileys and so forth with an intent to flip them, but it almost seems like the front office isn't sure what we should be doing, or they are trying to point in one direction (these free agents, see we are trying tho) while doing something off camera (we suck and are rebuilding again, but keep selling out Wrigley so Ricketts doesn't fire the lot of us).