2017 regular season thread

[hermes]

7 above .500 and a game ahead of the brewers, this second half turnaround has really been remarkable

[Kizz Fastfists]

holy wow, contreras man

is he the team mvp right now?

1) Rizzo
2) Bryant
3) Willson

[hermes]

stinks to blow it like that

contreras continues to tear the cover off the ball, this is like rizzo leading off - getting to ridiculous levels of good

[hermes]

beat the giants, inside the parker for baez

[bearadonisdna]

if i could make the rotation i think it would look like this.
I know addison is on the dl so will omit him.

J lester
Arrieta
Hendricks
Quintana
Lackey

Tbh i think thats championship caliber.


Relief:
Montgomery
Carl edwards junior
Wade davis
"Newly acquired closer from trade, name escapes me"
Strop
Rondon

I think thats servicable, those are the best guys i could name, thats 6 guys i feel pretty ok about.



For the steak and potatos:

C. Contreras
1b. Rizzo
2b.Happ
3b. Bryant
Ss.Baez
Rf. Heyward
Lf. Zobrist
Cf. Jay

Pretty dynamic if you ask me. Batting order i wont nit pick, i trust maddon number crunching and attention to detail.

Bench:
Schwarber
Almora jr
Avila
La Stella

[hermes]

how much second has happ played this year? he's been mostly in the outfield hasn't he?

i know second is his original position though

[karch34]

After a nice start to begin the 2nd half its starting to look like a bad streak. Hopefully we can right the ship and Contreras isn't out too long.

[hermes]

wow contreras hurt is a real bummer, got to out of hand with our (my) praise of him

not great timing with the cardinals winning 5 in a row and coming on strong

hopefully we can right the ship and keep this thing afloat - might have to put rizzo back in lead off

good thing we got the backup catcher

[hermes]

there we go, big win against the d-dbacks

[karch34]

Let's keep it going. The trade for a back up catcher who is starter level quality is looking even better.

[bearadonisdna]

how much second has happ played this year? he's been mostly in the outfield hasn't he?

i know second is his original position though

Ive seen happ play 2nd a few times this year. I know outfield is where he typically plays, ive seen him throw some lame ducks from center so i trust him more at 2b in that particular situation.

[bearadonisdna]

Now that the cubs are dealing with injuries keeping kyle schwarber holds value because he may be a legitimate pencil in considering we are undermanned.

[hermes]

lost, cards won and now we're tied for the division lead

dang redbirds

[Ccwatercraft]

Looking at our schedule over the rest of the season there's a whole lot of Cincinnati and Philadelphia there, which is good IMO.

Should be an interesting couple of weeks.

[hermes]

big win today, bryant is really cooking now

good timing with contreras going down

[hermes]

the ol' 'should have saved some of those runs for the next game' thing got us

[Kizz Fastfists]

I was screaming when they didn't send Heyward in the 9th. They need to get the win tonight. The division is too close for them not to take advantage of a favorable schedule to finish the season.

[Kizz Fastfists]

Javy takes home on a wild pitch for a wild finish!

[hermes]

lot of runs (and homers) against the reds in that last game but couldn't get it done

hopefully lester isn't out for a while

[hermes]

beat the blue jays today though, i like that the offense is really cooking now

also i should mention that schwarber is back above the mendoza line, he's been hitting pretty well since he came back from iowa