*** Official 2025 Chicago Cubs Thread***
- Thread starter Cyforce
- Start date
It's called regression to the mean. We've been lucky how the SP has performed without our 1 and 2 guys.
What is happening to this TEAM? Good Lord, get this together, and play fundamental baseball. In all my life, even at youth levels, I've never witnessed a guy tagging and scoring from SECOND on a fly out.
I can tell right now this team is mentally weak. Things start to go south and they collapse.
Going to be a one series and done in the postseason
We’ve played awful teams. Jed should have known this rotation isn’t anywhere near sustainable. It was a failure in the offseason made worse by not having a few deals done a month ago
We badly need another quality starter. We also need Amaya back. Kelly has regressed to the mean. We need his power bat at the bottom of batting order
As a Cards fan, it's still early in this game, Cards only up by one. Unless St. Louis can win at least 3 of the 4, which is doubtful, the Cubs will be fine when they leave town. Overall the Central is not a really good division, and the Cubs have been playing above their head because of their schedule. Not sure which team between the Brewers, Cubs or Cards is the better team, each has a lot of flaws.
The baseball season is a marathon, so there will be extended periods of poor results from a player perspective. Can just hope this poor play is short lived and they find their way to winning the NL Central.
My bigger issue at this point is with Counsell sticking with his starters when it is obvious they are struggling. He should have been in position to yank Taillon when he gave up a HR to lead off the 4th.
I realize pulling a starter before the 6th puts stress on the bullpen for future games, but the stress exists in large part because managers still construct their bullpen like they did when starters regularly pitched into the 7th with a bullpen comprised almost exclusively with one-inning relievers.
Sure Keller and Pomeranz can go multiple innings, but Flexen is really the only reliever on the roster with exclusively a multi-inning role. And those two are more valuable as 7th/8th inning pitchers for the Cubs. IMO teams need to rethink their bullpen construction and go with 2-3 multi-inning relievers who are prepared to pitch 2-3 innings a couple times a week.
My bigger issue at this point is with Counsell sticking with his starters when it is obvious they are struggling. He should have been in position to yank Taillon when he gave up a HR to lead off the 4th.
I realize pulling a starter before the 6th puts stress on the bullpen for future games, but the stress exists in large part because managers still construct their bullpen like they did when starters regularly pitched into the 7th with a bullpen comprised almost exclusively with one-inning relievers.
Sure Keller and Pomeranz can go multiple innings, but Flexen is really the only reliever on the roster with exclusively a multi-inning role. And those two are more valuable as 7th/8th inning pitchers for the Cubs. IMO teams need to rethink their bullpen construction and go with 2-3 multi-inning relievers who are prepared to pitch 2-3 innings a couple times a week.
Extremely so. If it was called, it was uncalled for, and definitely not executed. Just let him hit. Now there's two outs. Come on Cubs.
Terrible execution...runner on 3rd 1 out...and that's what we get. Just too many of those situations we waste
Also, it's really freaking hot out right now. That make pitching a little harder, and hitting little better.
