Agree with everything but Happ. Not sold yet that he is an everyday player. May be a poor man's Zobrist right now at best
MLB: ***Official 2019 Chicago Cubs Season Thread***
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Agree with everything but Happ. Not sold yet that he is an everyday player. May be a poor man's Zobrist right now at best
Line-up has issues and then when you look at the pitching...
1. Hamels is old and won't be back
2. Lester is also almost done for if not already there.
3. Darvish has excellent stuff but usually has a bad inning a game and rarely gets past 6 innings. Will also turn 34 next season with a history of arm problems.
4. Hendricks is really good at home (2.04 era) and average at best on the road (4.94 era).
5. Quintana had 1 really good stretch this season and rest of the year was pretty "meh" to bad.
Alzolay is our supposed younger pitcher who might be put in the rotation and he gave up 10 runs in 12 innings pitched this year.
I'm not even going to get into the bullpen issues.
Yeah it’s a bad situation and with no internal help on the near horizon. But hey ask chuckd and he’ll tell you Theo never wanted to develop any pitching at all, it’s all part of the plan.
Theo loves below average utility guys though, that’s why he locked up Bote early and traded for Kemp. Provide below average value at multiple positions? Sign him right up.
Can we all agree I told you so in August now or do I have to wait another week?
You were definitely right, no doubt.
Can we all agree you've acted like a giant **** throughout to anyone who tried to be positive and you've disagreed with, or do you need more time?
Not sure if you are being snarky....but he WAS (past tense)...but his performance has not been championship level, that is for sure. His contract was championship level...and maybe the REd Sox should being paying that in gratuity, not the residents of Glenview.
I usually don't run spell check on my posts either.
Whatev.....his name has been pretty forgettable with his performance for the Cubs.
Theo has literally been quoted saying his strategy is drafting bats
Bote asked for an extension and signed one for stupid cheap. The reason the deal was made fun of was because big names (Arenado, Goldschmidt) were signing extensions while we signed Bote. As for Kemp, we traded a backup catcher and ended up getting Lucroy in the deal, who is probably a better catcher than Maldonado, so I’m not too upset we got Kemp
I think it says a lot Maddon is wanting to go to a bullpen arm who has 3 appearances in his MLB career this late in the season over Q.
Perhaps crazy, but I could see the FO thinking they could find more value for $10.5 million and letting Q go this offseason
Perhaps crazy, but I could see the FO thinking they could find more value for $10.5 million and letting Q go this offseason
I saw the Hokeyes beat the Cyclones by 1, Kirk throw a pick in the endzone to lose to the Packers, and witnessed in person the Cards end the Cubs postseason hopes all within a week.
I could use a venmo for my drinks tonight boys.
I could use a venmo for my drinks tonight boys.
If that’s their strategy they should probably stop wasting all these draft picks on pitching. Seems dumb to draft pitchers if you don’t plan on developing them.
Also they basically turned a quality arm in Mike Montgomery into a guy who does nothing well. But he plays multiple spots.
Joe can be fired today if the Cubs end up losing it. Terrible, terrible in-game management, again.
Montgomery didn’t want to be here and was even asked to leave Wrigley in the middle of the game because he was being such a whiney ***** this offseason. Our starting catcher was also put in the IL the same day. Lets not act trading Montgomery for Maldonado was a bad deal, it was a great deal for both teams.
You’re entitled to your own opinion but if a guy doesn’t want to be here, he provides pretty much nothing to your team. Montgomery is more valuable than Kemp. Kemp wants to be here. Kemp somewhat filled a need at the time.
I don’t like a lot of Theos moves but I completely disagree that this was one of his bad ones.
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