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Post by foolforthecity on Sept 8, 2023 20:35:27 GMT -5
Yankees are no help tonight 🙄
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Post by Cubtastic on Sept 8, 2023 20:57:55 GMT -5
Yankees are no help tonight 🙄 After 2 runs in 2 games, Cubs need to worry about themselves right now as that is just ridiculous
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Post by kfidd on Sept 12, 2023 15:27:30 GMT -5
If the regular season ended today, the Cubs would make the playoffs. Who makes your playoff rotation?
Steele Hendricks Assad Wicks
On paper that rotation may not inspire much confidence against the more established starters they’d be squaring off against, but this is what I’d call the best we got. After Steele, Hendricks is the only one with playoff experience. We’d have to rely on his command and nerves both being on point. Assad gets my next nod. He’s not overpowering and I’m always a bit on edge watching him pitch with his fairly mediocre stuff. But he’s more often than not been reliable this season and delivered a masterful center stage moment during the WBC. He gets my game 3.
Wicks is so inexperienced but I’d rather believe in the advantages of that than give Taillon a start. Much of the league has never faced Wicks and sene his change up. Gotta rely on that as a pro.
Who’s your 1-4 playoff rotation at this moment in time?
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Post by skokiejoe on Sept 12, 2023 15:38:35 GMT -5
If the regular season ended today, the Cubs would make the playoffs. Who makes your playoff rotation? Steele Hendricks Assad Wicks On paper that rotation may not inspire much confidence against the more established starters they’d be squaring off against, but this is what I’d call the best we got. After Steele, Hendricks is the only one with playoff experience. We’d have to rely on his command and nerves both being on point. Assad gets my next nod. He’s not overpowering and I’m always a bit on edge watching him pitch with his fairly mediocre stuff. But he’s more often than not been reliable this season and delivered a masterful center stage moment during the WBC. He gets my game 3. Wicks is so inexperienced but I’d rather believe in the advantages of that than give Taillon a start. Much of the league has never faced Wicks and sene his change up. Gotta rely on that as a pro. Who’s your 1-4 playoff rotation at this moment in time? You only need 3 starters until the Championship series. Steele Hendricks Stro/Assad
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Post by batman66 on Sept 12, 2023 18:35:43 GMT -5
If the regular season ended today, the Cubs would make the playoffs. Who makes your playoff rotation? Steele Hendricks Assad Wicks On paper that rotation may not inspire much confidence against the more established starters they’d be squaring off against, but this is what I’d call the best we got. After Steele, Hendricks is the only one with playoff experience. We’d have to rely on his command and nerves both being on point. Assad gets my next nod. He’s not overpowering and I’m always a bit on edge watching him pitch with his fairly mediocre stuff. But he’s more often than not been reliable this season and delivered a masterful center stage moment during the WBC. He gets my game 3. Wicks is so inexperienced but I’d rather believe in the advantages of that than give Taillon a start. Much of the league has never faced Wicks and sene his change up. Gotta rely on that as a pro. Who’s your 1-4 playoff rotation at this moment in time? You only need 3 starters until the Championship series. Steele Hendricks Stro/Assad If Alzolay is out I think Stro ends up being the closer for the playoffs , I don't trust Fulmer. I'd go Steele Hendricks and piggyback Wicks starting with Assad taking over
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Post by bryzzobrist on Sept 18, 2023 14:12:06 GMT -5
Cubbies went from around a 90%+ odds of making playoffs to 46%
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Post by TheChico on Sept 18, 2023 14:17:16 GMT -5
Cubbies went from around a 90%+ odds of making playoffs to 46% So only up from here, hopefully the next 12 puts the odds to 100%
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Post by batman66 on Sept 18, 2023 14:58:19 GMT -5
Cubbies went from around a 90%+ odds of making playoffs to 46% the ebb and flow of baseball . Teams get hot and cold and they better get hot again and quick. Hopefully being at Wrigley wakes the bats back up and they can outscore the pitching issues they are dealing with.
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Post by bryzzobrist on Sept 26, 2023 0:55:05 GMT -5
Now at 58% odds to reach postseason per fg
Stroman back in the rotation now. Lets hope justin steele has a promising start tomorrow.
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Post by batman66 on Sept 26, 2023 10:25:41 GMT -5
Damn , the Cubs would lose the WC tie breaker to all the teams , I'd hate to miss the post season that way.
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Post by threeandone on Sept 26, 2023 18:23:55 GMT -5
Damn , the Cubs would lose the WC tie breaker to all the teams , I'd hate to miss the post season that way. Not to worry. I was guaranteed on this board about a week or so ago that the tiebreakers would not be a factor. So no need to worry about it
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Post by Returnofstevefitz on Sept 27, 2023 7:58:42 GMT -5
Damn , the Cubs would lose the WC tie breaker to all the teams , I'd hate to miss the post season that way. Not to worry. I was guaranteed on this board about a week or so ago that the tiebreakers would not be a factor. So no need to worry about it The "experts" here know everything
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Post by bryzzobrist on Sept 28, 2023 11:03:53 GMT -5
According to FG atleast, we've moved all the way down to 29.6% to reach. Funny considering how we're in the WC spot at the moment still. Time to cross fingers and keep em that way.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2023 11:15:31 GMT -5
Been busy and it's SM but spot on. We might be witnessing a choke job for the ages. Worth the read IMHO.
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Post by tedw on Sept 28, 2023 11:53:02 GMT -5
Been busy and it's SM but spot on. We might be witnessing a choke job for the ages. Worth the read IMHO. Where I agree, the Cubs are certainly choking, this is by no means ‘historic’. Doesn’t even approach ’69.
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Post by 2mileshighillini on Sept 28, 2023 11:54:31 GMT -5
Not to worry. I was guaranteed on this board about a week or so ago that the tiebreakers would not be a factor. So no need to worry about it The "experts" here know everything The guarantee was that the Reds would not eliminate us on a tie breaker. So, once that argument was proven... Let's change the narrative. That's how the "experts" operate here.
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Post by Cubtastic on Sept 28, 2023 12:52:19 GMT -5
According to FG atleast, we've moved all the way down to 29.6% to reach. Funny considering how we're in the WC spot at the moment still. Time to cross fingers and keep em that way. incorrect, Miami is they win tie break
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Post by batman66 on Sept 28, 2023 13:44:41 GMT -5
Been busy and it's SM but spot on. We might be witnessing a choke job for the ages. Worth the read IMHO. Not even close to historic. Would you not have to be in a very strong position to make the playoffs at one point for it to be one for the ages? What was the biggest lead they had on a playoff spot 2-3 games over the 3rd WC spot , they never had the WC spot lead or the division so it's not really even a choke job
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Post by Cubtastic on Sept 28, 2023 16:47:54 GMT -5
Been busy and it's SM but spot on. We might be witnessing a choke job for the ages. Worth the read IMHO. Not even close to historic. Would you not have to be in a very strong position to make the playoffs at one point for it to be one for the ages? What was the biggest lead they had on a playoff spot 2-3 games over the 3rd WC spot , they never had the WC spot lead or the division so it's not really even a choke job Well yes it is, sorry to bust facts here, heard this on the score, Since Sept 16th cubs have held lead in 7 different innings on the road in the 8th or later they have blown the lead in bottom half of that inning in all 7 of those innings, no other MLB team in the modern era has blown the lead in more than five straight road innings in the 8th or later in which they held a lead this is one of the worst stretches of Road late inning relief pitching in the history of baseball that's how bad it is.
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Post by okeecub on Sept 28, 2023 18:31:51 GMT -5
Not even close to historic. Would you not have to be in a very strong position to make the playoffs at one point for it to be one for the ages? What was the biggest lead they had on a playoff spot 2-3 games over the 3rd WC spot , they never had the WC spot lead or the division so it's not really even a choke job Well yes it is, sorry to bust facts here, heard this on the score, Since Sept 16th cubs have held lead in 7 different innings on the road in the 8th or later they have blown the lead in bottom half of that inning in all 7 of those innings, no other MLB team in the modern era has blown the lead in more than five straight road innings in the 8th or later in which they held a lead this is one of the worst stretches of Road late inning relief pitching in the history of baseball that's how bad it is. you know y’all busting each others chops splitting hairs over word definitions are missing the point. This has been a helluva year, much better than most of expected. We are playing meaningful games at the end of September for the first time in a couple years and can realistically look forward to things getting better in the coming years. Call it what you will but Cubs baseball is relevant again & should get better. Go Cubs
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