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Saw an interview with Clint Hurdle the other day and he was saying when he played in the 80s and early 90s, the average fastball speed was 87 to 93, now they are averaging 95, with many throwing upper 90s to 100. That a player has the time it takes the average person to blink their eyes twice to determine if the ball is a ball or strike, and today, you have to think everything is a fastball and plan for it, and adjust to a breakable, because otherwise you are never going to catch up with the average 95 mile fastball.
He thought that is why there are so many strikeouts these days, no cares if you strike out and the pitchers throwing as hard as they are.
 
CyState85 said:
Pat Murphy is playing chess against Counsell’s checkers. The Brewers are so much better at situational baseball and seem to have a much higher IQ with the game. Maybe we should have hired Murphy.
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It’s pretty clear that it’s some combination of Pat Murphy being MUCH better than Counsel or the Brewers front office being MUUUUCH better than the Cubs front office. The latter is more impactful, I’m thinking.
 
The Brewers are a great regular season team but when they get to the playoffs when you need to slug they do not have enough of it to beat the Dodgers. The Cubs need to turn around this skid and to win the division you have to beat NL Central teams currently they are 1-2 vs the Pirates 0-2 vs the Brewers and 4-0 vs the Reds. The offense needs to help out the current pitching staff that is banged up. Just frustrating to watch the brewers 2 out single you to death. Long season still 113 games to go but need to win tonight avoid being swept.
 
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ProStateCubs said:
The Brewers are a great regular season team but when they get to the playoffs when you need to slug they do not have enough of it to beat the Dodgers. The Cubs need to turn around this skid and to win the division you have to beat NL Central teams currently they are 1-2 vs the Pirates 0-2 vs the Brewers and 4-0 vs the Reds. The offense needs to help out the current pitching staff that is banged up. Just frustrating to watch the brewers 2 out single you to death. Long season still 113 games to go but need to win tonight avoid being swept.
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100% agree, Brewers dont have enough slug to make a deep playoff run (aka beating the dodgers) unfortunately with the cubs current team makeup. Most of the lineup is extremely streaky. ie; being the number 1 lineup in baseball for the first half of last year and near the bottom in the second half. I think the lack of consistency is too much to overcome and the brewers will win the division again. The pitching injuries dont allievate much of the pressure of a struggling lineup
 
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Heard on Chicago sports radio this morning that Cubs have 6 of the Top 24 hitters in all of MLB for leaving the most runners on base. And think they said 4 of them are in the Top 7.
 
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BigJCy said:
PCA is melting down before our eyes I'm afraid.
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Yes, it sucks!

I think that White Sox woman must have really gotten in his head! He is dropping routine balls and letting that ground balls go thru his legs that he use to have no problem with. I personally like to see Horner leading off and PCA batting second to see if he can getting out of his funk!
 
This season could blow up on us real fast it appears. No team would hold up with this amount of starting pitching injuries.
 
Not too serious it appears but blisters can sideline you for a bit or at minimum be a nuisance for awhile.

 
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