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Somebody needs to photoshop Covey's head on top of a tank. Dude is the perfect tank commander.

He's a weird case. His bat has fallen off a cliff but his defensive metrics have been very good. He came in with the bat first rep in the Cubs org but it's his defense that has improved in the big leagues He was a 2.5 WAR player last season and he's still only 25. He just needs to be at least average with the bat to be a decent player for them.

He calls for it so much it's literally in the scouting report. Just no creativity or imagination. Even a shit manager like Kapler can figure that out.

Quite a few opposing announcers have questioned Ricky it seems. Stone took a bit of a shot at him too for that. Bunts with a slow ass runner at 3B (and he puts the steal on with slow ass runners instead of his fast guys not named Tim Anderson or he'll put hit and runs on and the hitters fail to execute). Just a joke of a manager.

Great call.

Fuck off Ricky. Love Stone taking a shot at him for bunting.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/mets-vs-pirates/2019/08/03/566231?partnerId=LR_gameday#game_tab=boxscore,game_state=live,game=566231 Nope.

Moncada's issue is much moreso with his throws. Can't count the number or errors he's either made a bad throw or Abreu couldn't scoop up the ball an average defensive 1B would make. He gets a bit of a pass since he's at a position he hasn't played in years too. I can look and personally see a potentially good to great defensive 3B there. Timmy... eh... we'll see.

He's made boneheaded errors when a couple of our pitchers had no hitters going (I believe Miguel Gonzalez in fact had a perfect game at the time). Eh.. maybe maturity will help him down the line without trying to show off/play with flair in that instance.

Cordero gonna be the new Bummer. Seems like he's out there every game now.

Pitched his ass off. Ricky played with fire a bit that inning but got away with it. Great outing by him.

Ricky maybe letting the 15 inning game yesterday cloud his thinking. Getting dangerous asking Detwiler to give you another limited damaged inning.

Good version of Davis Martin pitched tonight.

Well... he nearly tossed 4 flawless innings. But the 4th did him in.

Just poor fundamentals. Love the bat but his defense is just not very good.

Was hit very hard too.

Basabe 2 BBs.

Hawk really rubbed off on him in that regard..

Robert single.

I remember Bobby Abreu going to the Angels and literally working with hitters and preaching to them to work every count and take their walks. Quite a few hitters numbers jumped up if I remember correctly. No lie, I would take him right now in this org as a hitting instructor in some capacity.

The pitching matchup heavily favors Philly so much it's unbelievable. But baseball is dumb so... you never know.

The kid the Cubs traded to get Justin Wilson (who is no longer on the team) is on fire. Was also selected in this past futures game. Thanks Theo...

Robert RBI double. Just missed a HR by like 2 inches. Madrigal BB.

If that's the case then my mistake. Both managers were equally horrible last night. I ripped Kapler for it repeatedly in the GT.

Fulmer should've never batted in the first place. Had an OF pitching and Fulmer's pitch count was high (hasn't had that many pitches in a while). I honestly thought Jay was going to bat in that situation and Osich was going to come in afterwards. He probably wanted to save Osich but we saw that didn't work. I applaud Fulmer for busting his ass (he really wanted that hit) but as we saw with any pitcher, never a good idea.