***Official 2024 Chicago Cubs Thread***
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3-4 on a tough trip. Take it and get ready to beat the Brewers this weekend.
The one thing keeping me optimistic about this **** show is you get the three starters back and Merryweather in July and this entire bullpen looks different.
Yes but usually you don’t DFA a guy getting his kind of paycheck unless you are 100% certain he will 100% of the time **** up
Really my only knock on Counsell so far from the entire season standpoint. 2 of Alzolays 4 blown saves came after he had already thrown in the 8th.
There are multi-inning relievers and there are not multi-inning relievers. I would argue Adbert, MJL, Palencia, and Almonte are guys on our roster that should not ever throw in an inning and then come back out.
Amen. This team is obviously banged up and has played quite poorly for a while. To be in the position it’s in is very encouraging. More guys will drive the ball more consistently than they have, and I really believe the bullpen works itself out eventually. Call me a sunshine pumper if you want.
I'm going to give Counsell benefit of the doubt that he's trying to figure out what he has. Not ideal during the season, but really only way a new manager can figure out guys strengths/weaknesses in big league situations.
In the case of guys like Lovelady, Brewer, Thompson, Wisdom, etc. he's giving them a legit chance to prove themselves in case it comes to DFAing a guy.
Turns out 85 without elite placement is just batting practice. Although strangely those numbers aren't bad.
To be fair, Steele had a statistically worse outing but management felt good about that outing. Entirely possible Hendricks got out of it what he was looking for
