Chicago Cubs (55-73) @ Toronto Blue Jays (68-58) - August 29-31

Parataxis · Post #101 » by **Parataxis** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:47 am

Raps in 4 wrote:I feel bad for Little. But we needed that.

HBP, infield single (I don't think the slip made a difference), HR, walk. Rough start. Had that Infinite ERA for a bit.

Hopefully he can shake it off and pitch well the rest of the year.

Post #102 » by **Schad** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:52 am

Parataxis wrote:
Raps in 4 wrote:I feel bad for Little. But we needed that.

HBP, infield single (I don't think the slip made a difference), HR, walk. Rough start. Had that Infinite ERA for a bit.

Hopefully he can shake it off and pitch well the rest of the year.

Drafted from the State College of Florida Manatees. Have not my people suffered enough?

Fairview4Life · Post #103 » by **Fairview4Life** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:08 am

Schad wrote:
Parataxis wrote:
Raps in 4 wrote:I feel bad for Little. But we needed that.

HBP, infield single (I don't think the slip made a difference), HR, walk. Rough start. Had that Infinite ERA for a bit.

Hopefully he can shake it off and pitch well the rest of the year.

Drafted from the State College of Florida Manatees. Have not my people suffered enough?

Yes. They have.

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SharoneWright · Post #104 » by **SharoneWright** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 5:05 am

Asianiac_24 · Post #105 » by **Asianiac_24** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 5:42 am

Schad wrote:
Mehar wrote:
Fairview4Life wrote:The decisions our managers have been making go against a whole bunch of “analytics”. That’s why we generally complain about them. They don’t make sense. Yet you keep saying the analytics department is making the in game decisions. Which analytics do you think they are using?

If the analytics department is making the decisions, then they should have just kept Montoyo then. I guess the Analytics Department was telling Montoyo to bench Kirk 2-3 times a week for several weeks, and telling Schneider to have Matt Chapman as the lead off hitter. Schneider and Montoyo have both made moves throughout the year that was opposite of "Great Analytics".

Also, the choices they make are markedly different. Montoyo repeatedly benched Kirk, which is bad. Schneider doesn't. Schneider hits-and-runs in some weird spots (though not as often lately as he did in his first couple weeks). Montoyo didn't. Schneider, until the past few games, had a very old-school closer usage that resulted in Romero sitting on his hands days on end. Montoyo didn't.

Broadly speaking, Schneider's lineup-setting is fine. Not perfect, but he mostly gets the right players into the lineup, which is more important than having the wrong players in the right order. But his reliever preferences are still quite weird, though there are some recent signs of rationalizing it.

Montoyo also has a tendency to use struggling pitchers in high pressure situations. Up by 1 and Brad Hand just had a 3 ER game yesterday? Time to put in Brand Hand. Same with Thornton. Schneider does less of that and generally uses the right ones given the situation.

Post #106 » by **Schad** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 6:32 am

Schneider has made some pretty questionable 'pen decisions, but they seem to be improving. Bass is pitching in high-leverage now. He's using Romano in tie games. We're even seeing multi-inning stints where appropriate, including bringing in Romano today to get the powerful-but-K-prone Franny Reyes when he was the tying run.

It helps that our bullpen has actual depth now, with five competent-or-better late-innings arms in Romero, Bass, Garcia, Cimber and Phelps, plus a guy in Mayza who has excellent numbers against left-handers. But he also does appear to be learning, and given that my bar for managers is merely that they don't actively try to **** things up, and have enough awareness that they recognize when they are actively **** things up, Schneider's trending in the right direction.

polo007 · Post #107 » by **polo007** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 8:27 pm

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Corinne · Post #109 » by **Corinne** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:04 pm

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I know those security/police thought about leaving the couple to finish instead of getting altitude sickness climbing up those damn steps

linery88 · Post #110 » by **linery88** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:20 pm

Tonight we score lots of runs.

Madvillainy2004 · Post #111 » by **Madvillainy2004** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:44 pm

Lmao no way Kirk threw to 2nd with 1st and 3rd

Raider917 · Post #112 » by **Raider917** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:45 pm

Will Moreno be called up tommorow? I really hope so

Corinne · Post #113 » by **Corinne** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:47 pm

Raider917 wrote:Will Moreno be called up tommorow? I really hope so

Defensively I already prefer Gabi over Kirk/Jano.

Mad Prophet · Post #114 » by **Mad Prophet** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:49 pm

Zimmer will take the extra roster spot.

linery88 · Post #115 » by **linery88** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:53 pm

Bucks right about everything he just said after the Kirk play.

Raider917 · Post #116 » by **Raider917** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:56 pm

Mad Prophet wrote:Zimmer will take the extra roster spot.

If you make decisions like this, keeping bichette a short, having gurriel hitting behind guerrero and using Kikuchi to relieve white then why not just forfeit

Madvillainy2004 · Post #117 » by **Madvillainy2004** » Thu Sep 1, 2022 12:01 am

Another bad start for White. Considering we can't even pitch him 2 times through the order I have not been impressed.

Randle McMurphy · Post #118 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Thu Sep 1, 2022 12:01 am

Getting blown out by the Cubs. Yikes.

Corinne · Post #119 » by **Corinne** » Thu Sep 1, 2022 12:02 am

we're honestly **** .

linery88 · Post #120 » by **linery88** » Thu Sep 1, 2022 12:07 am

I,m starting to wonder if its a good idea to hope we finish third in the WC,and can play a playoff game on the road.