June 20, 20187 yr 54 minutes ago, fathom said: Lester gave up 14 hard hit balls today (95+ exit velocity) and went 7 shutout innings. That's almost impossible to imagine. The Cubs defense is insane again. And besides today, Lester has been incredible this year.
June 20, 20187 yr 1 minute ago, soxfan49 said: And besides today, Lester has been incredible this year. Babip gods are loving him though, as I read he's allowing hardest contact of his career this season. That defense is great thought outside of the guy their fans think is their best defender.
June 24, 20187 yr 17 hours ago, AustinIllini said: Q bad today Pretty similar numbers (at this point) to his last Sox half-season...
June 26, 20187 yr Speaking of the Cubs I read an interesting story at the Awful Announcing web site this morning. Story said that with the AT&T / Time Warner merger approved. It is now expected that company is going to be a player for the Cubs broadcasting rights starting in the 2020 season. Story said the AT&T company already owns three RSN's (Pittsburgh, Rocky Mountain and Southwest) doing Pirate, Rockies and Astros games. They would form a new RSN just for the Cubs if they got their rights and would give them partial ownership. If nothing else, the story said, having AT&T as a player could drive up the price to keep the Cubs on NBC Sports Chicago.
June 26, 20187 yr 9 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said: Speaking of the Cubs I read an interesting story at the Awful Announcing web site this morning. Story said that with the AT&T / Time Warner merger approved. It is now expected that company is going to be a player for the Cubs broadcasting rights starting in the 2020 season. Story said the AT&T company already owns three RSN's (Pittsburgh, Rocky Mountain and Southwest) doing Pirate, Rockies and Astros games. They would form a new RSN just for the Cubs if they got their rights and would give them partial ownership. If nothing else, the story said, having AT&T as a player could drive up the price to keep the Cubs on NBC Sports Chicago. AT&T is also the owner of DirecTV...fwiw, that was a big sticking point in the LA Dodgers broadcast rights fiasco, where most local fans couldn’t even see the games despite the billions spent on that particular deal. http://adage.com/article/media/doj-accuses-t-directv-collusion-l-a-dodgers-rights/306601/ Under an accord valued at $7 billion to $8 billion, Time Warner Cable became the primary distributor of the Dodgers' SportsNet LA channel and set about pressing other pay-TV providers to charge all of their regional subscribers more than $4 a month apiece for games. That's more than the New York Yankees charge for the YES Network, according to researcher SNL Kagan. DirecTV, Charter, Dish, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T's U-verse cable service and Cox all refused. Edited June 26, 20187 yr by caulfield12
June 26, 20187 yr Maybe someone can articulate a bit on these Schwarber is improved fielder articles. I saw that he let a ball bounce off him and a runner attempted to score on the misplay last night. Baez took the relay and gunned down the runner at home. He gets credited with an assist and then his WAR goes up .3 just for that? It seems he is being rewarded for taking bad routes and angles. Runners take the extra base because of his miscues and naturally some get caught. Is this accounted for in the fielding metrics?
June 26, 20187 yr On 6/20/2018 at 4:31 PM, soxfan49 said: And besides today, Lester has been incredible this year. Incredible? Velocity is down, strikeouts are way down, walks are up, he's no longer getting groundballs, and he's giving up the hardest contact of his career. He's just been bailed out by their amazing defense and getting very lucky on balls in play, he's been completely average this year. Edited June 26, 20187 yr by OmarComing25
June 27, 20187 yr On 6/20/2018 at 4:34 PM, fathom said: Babip gods are loving him though, as I read he's allowing hardest contact of his career this season. That defense is great thought outside of the guy their fans think is their best defender. https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/jon-lesters-high-wire-act/ Here you go.
June 28, 20187 yr WTF happened to Quintana since the calendar hit 2017? Seems like a completely different guy that he was from 2012-16 with the Sox. The Sox are so incredibly lucky to have acquired Eloy and Cease for him. It seems ridiculous in retrospect. Edited June 28, 20187 yr by Jack Parkman
June 28, 20187 yr Dodgers using a relief outing in the majors as rehab for Buehler was an incredibly dumb decision
June 29, 20187 yr Really bad move. Glad to see Kershaw seemed to have a nice start. Nats need to go get Girardi and sew up the NL title.
June 29, 20187 yr Berrios looks all world against the Sox and looked like Felix Diaz vs the Cubs today. Wtf
June 30, 20187 yr 26 minutes ago, Tony said: I mean, the Cubs are still the class of the NL, the White Sox are terrible. Why the shock? Seeing him get one swinging strike all game against a non-pitcher is shocking though. And you will love this, but their fans were concerned about his decreased velocity.
July 1, 20187 yr On 6/29/2018 at 7:50 PM, fathom said: Seeing him get one swinging strike all game against a non-pitcher is shocking though. And you will love this, but their fans were concerned about his decreased velocity. The teams combined for 60 runs in 3 games. It was the ultimate Wrigley series with the heat, humidity, and.slight wind.
July 3, 20187 yr This year's Cubs team reminds me of some of those 1990's Indians teams. Great offense, and they do a good job beating up on 4th and 5th starters and blow games open when teams bring in their 7th and 8th relievers. But come October you're not able to do that, and this year they don't really have a pitching staff built for October, and their bullpen doesn't exactly put fear in people's eyes either.
July 11, 20187 yr Quintana has now made 32 regular season starts for the Cubs. 15-9, 3.86 ERA...only 182 innings though.
July 15, 20187 yr On 6/7/2018 at 6:45 AM, LittleHurt05 said: And that's the night the Cubs clinched their 4th straight division title. We can only hope the Sox rebuild is close to that successful. That was premature. Today the Cubs clinched the division
July 15, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, LittleHurt05 said: That was premature. Today the Cubs clinched the division They're going to win that division by 10 games. Brewers shouldn't waste prospects for a team that has so many holes. Hopefully Dodgers get some good players at the deadline, as those are easily two best NL teams.
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