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*** Official 2025 Chicago Cubs Thread***

Biggest win of the year, if they win tommorrow that will be the biggest of the year. They can come back from 5 down, not so sure about 7.

Shaw is playing extremely well latley but he absolutely has to at least knock that ball down instead of allowing that run to score. Any major league caliber 3rd baseman can't allow that. Very fortunate that didn't cost the game.
 
NoCreativity said:
Biggest win of the year, if they win tommorrow that will be the biggest of the year. They can come back from 5 down, not so sure about 7.

Shaw is playing extremely well latley but he absolutely has to at least knock that ball down instead of allowing that run to score. Any major league caliber 3rd baseman can't allow that. Very fortunate that didn't cost the game.
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That's why it's called an error. It was hit pretty hard, so I wouldn't say that was any easy play to complete for a MLB 3rd baseman. He just got ahead of himself and looked like he was thinking about positioning his body to get up and make the throw before catching the ball.
 
Clonefan32 said:
So at no point in the last 8 weeks that he’s been totally unable to hit a baseball did anyone think “hey maybe we take another look at that hand”? That’s unconscionably dumb.
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Craig Counsell confirmed the fracture during his postgame presser. (says it’s healed now btw)
 
Reds keeping pace, only .5 game behind the Mets for last wild card now.
 
Cubs just need to get into the playoffs to take a roll of the dice at the crapshoot that is the MLB playoffs. Reds lost too so even better.
 
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That felt like a playoff game last night. One more today and think we still have a fighter’s chance at the division. Especially with the Brewers schedule the rest of the way.

Most importantly, I hope this series gives the Cubs their mojo back.
 
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NorthCyd said:
Cubs just need to get into the playoffs to take a roll of the dice at the crapshoot that is the MLB playoffs. Reds lost too so even better.
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Six back going in to today hopefully Shota can dominate as the hitting is starting to turn for the better. Plus we’ve secured the tiebreaker so anything is possible. It’s important to keep the four seed over SD. So if we advance we know we can play with Milwaukee and for that matter the Dodgers.
 
Clonefan32 said:
So at no point in the last 8 weeks that he’s been totally unable to hit a baseball did anyone think “hey maybe we take another look at that hand”? That’s unconscionably dumb.
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It's alarming at just how poorly they manage injuries anymore. They'd rather let guys play hurt for extended periods of time even if it affects their on field performance or they will sit a guy and not put them on the IL and play 1 player short for a week sometimes. A position player only has to be on the IL 10 days vs 15 for a pitcher so you only lose them for a week and a half vs 2 full weeks. Saw that last year with Happ or someone I believe where we kept hearing "its day to day" and they wound up missing almost the same amount of days as an IL stint would have been so we basically played with 1 less guy for over a week.
 
CYdTracked said:
It's alarming at just how poorly they manage injuries anymore. They'd rather let guys play hurt for extended periods of time even if it affects their on field performance or they will sit a guy and not put them on the IL and play 1 player short for a week sometimes. A position player only has to be on the IL 10 days vs 15 for a pitcher so you only lose them for a week and a half vs 2 full weeks. Saw that last year with Happ or someone I believe where we kept hearing "its day to day" and they wound up missing almost the same amount of days as an IL stint would have been so we basically played with 1 less guy for over a week.
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I'm going a little tin-foil-hat here, but this just doesn't add up. So they x-ray his hand immediately and see nothing. He's clearly injured for the next 2 months and they don't at any point re x-ray his hand. After 2 months of this they pull him and decide to x-ray his hand again and this time they discover a fractured, but it's already healed. I'm no doctor but wouldn't discovering a healed break be harder to do than the actual break?

Just doesn't make any sense. Gotta wonder if there's some damage control going on here and they somehow got the Cubs FO to go along with it.
 
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NoCreativity said:
Biggest win of the year, if they win tommorrow that will be the biggest of the year. They can come back from 5 down, not so sure about 7.

Shaw is playing extremely well latley but he absolutely has to at least knock that ball down instead of allowing that run to score. Any major league caliber 3rd baseman can't allow that. Very fortunate that didn't cost the game.
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That run didn't mean anything. The only thing that mattered, other than getting the batter out, was keeping him at 1st, which luckily happened.
 
Clonefan32 said:
I'm going a little tin-foil-hat here, but this just doesn't add up. So they x-ray his hand immediately and see nothing. He's clearly injured for the next 2 months and they don't at any point re x-ray his hand. After 2 months of this they pull him and decide to x-ray his hand again and this time they discover a fractured, but it's already healed. I'm no doctor but wouldn't discovering a healed break be harder to do than the actual break?

Just doesn't make any sense. Gotta wonder if there's some damage control going on here and they somehow got the Cubs FO to go along with it.
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Well sure it's easy to go tin-foil when you just make up a timeline.

Craig said they did the x-ray initially beginning of June. Then MID-JUNE, so likely 2 weeks later, did an x-ray and saw the fracture but it was HEALING, no fully healed.
 
These lineups that Council throws out there sometimes, to me, feel like he's throwing darts at a wall of their photos to choose who plays and better yet, where in the batting order. It never makes sense to me, sigh.
 
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GT25Ump said:
These lineups that Council throws out there sometimes, to me, feel like he's throwing darts at a wall of their photos to choose who plays and better yet, where in the batting order. It never makes sense to me, sigh.
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Ross did the same things and it drove me nuts. Makes you wonder if he's being told by someone behind the scenes. I remember we brought Canario up, sat him for like 10 days then he finally gets a start and has a big game and he's MIA again for several games again. Gotta reward these young guys you call up when they have a big game or a hot streak with multiple starts to keep their confidence up and get some momentum going with their next step in development. I don't care who is on the mound you put that kid out there and see if he responds with another good game. Sitting them the very next game after they did some good things has to be a bit crushing that you did your job well but I guess not well enough to get another start.
 
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CYdTracked said:
Ross did the same things and it drove me nuts. Makes you wonder if he's being told by someone behind the scenes. I remember we brought Canario up, sat him for like 10 days then he finally gets a start and has a big game and he's MIA again for several games again. Gotta reward these young guys you call up when they have a big game or a hot streak with multiple starts to keep their confidence up and get some momentum going with their next step in development. I don't care who is on the mound you put that kid out there and see if he responds with another good game. Sitting them the very next game after they did some good things has to be a bit crushing that you did your job well but I guess not well enough to get another start.
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Cassie should have been up all year as the 5th outfielder. There's no reason they couldn't have gotten him 300 AB's this year just by resting the other 4 guys once a week or so.

I'm suspecting a major reason the offense is slumping so bad now is Counsel has played most of these guys into the ground all summer. Brujan, Turner, Berti, and McGuire rarely played so you essentially have 10 guys getting overused.
 
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