Some of Theo's unfortunate decisions since the world series: Signed Yu Traded La Stella for peanuts Chose to ride things out with a stupid piece of shit who never learns from his mistakes Signed Descalso instead of keeping La Stella. Signed Chatwood Traded Eloy and Cease for Q (doesn't seem close to worth it at this time) Besides signing Hendricks and Bote to extensions, I can't think of many good things he's done. Somebody help me out if I'm forgetting something. Kimbrel is a positive at the moment, so I guess add that to the list.
Yeah signing Yu and Chatwood have been bad. The La Stella trade hurts but no one would have saw this season coming for him. I'm torn right now, do we blow this thing up and start fresh with our base of Rizzo, Baez, Bryant, and Contreras or do we continue to try and find some diamonds in the rough and mix in a few low risk veterans and see what happens.
Sounds like we said goodbye to Carlos Gonzalez tonight. He just couldn't catch up to anything high-speed. He'll have to change his approach if he wants to make a comeback.
Blow things up? We’re leading the division. Teams go through rough patches. It’s a 162 game marathon.
Without looking at the numbers I feel like Monty has been complete trash this year. He needs to go start over somewhere new. Let him fulfill his dream of being a starter for a bottom feeder like the Royals or O’s.
I mean if we fall short again. I’m happy to just make the playoffs, that’s hard to do, plus anything can happen then.
All things considered the pen has been pretty good this year. Chatwood has found a solid role in the pen. It’s clear he isn’t a starter. We clearly have a big need for a LHP for the pen. That upgrade could be on the farm or via trade. Our biggest issue is rolling out a 6 man battling lineup. Cargo had to go. Russell, Decalso and Almora are big big issue. And this lineup not being able to hit LHP is another terrible problem. Waiting on these hitters to reach potential is getting old.
Cubs are giving chatwood another start.But I get that you don't want to dfa valuable 40 Man roster players like Tony Barnette and Duane Underwood .
1st inning and we've got an almora error. Schwarber trying to throw someone out resulting in an extra base , and an uncontested steal.
We haven't played good baseball in over a month. Just lazy and stupid in the field. Just like last year.
We played like absolute shit going into the all star break in 2016, too, so we're definitely going to win the world series
I can't believe he hits under .239 with the bases loaded. I feel like everyone has a good average with the bases loaded
I'm not saying he's disliked in the looker room but its hard to deny the drastic fall off in play with the Russell promotion. The team was 20-13 when he got called up. Since his call up the cubs are 25-28 Games that he starts we are 10-21 Games he comes off the bench 15-7 Yet we trot his under performing ass out over Bote. Fuck Madden for keeping him on the field and fuck Theo for not taking him off the ML roster so it stops
WTF are you not subbing out Contrearas for defense and then Addy WTF are you thinking, get the out. Now a deep fly ends the game.
Addison Russell should not be on this team because he's a fucking piece of shit. He's also a fucking worthless hitter and he's topping it all off by being horrendous in the field. So go fuck yourself Addy.
Ah fuck it. I'm not even mad that Russell didn't throw to first, since I didn't want to watch another second of this shit for brains team anyhow.
He needs to go... He's the guy filling out these fucking horrendous lineups. He's the guy trotting out Addy He's the guy who plays Wilson in left field. I'm totally fine with him being gone at season end if not sooner. Thanks for the world title... Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out
How the fuck does he even make that decision? He's on the outfield grass, moving against his normal motion and thinks he can throw out the hitter? Fuck him
I'm a tad pissed... But in a calm and happy moment I would tell you I'm fine with the Cubs parting ways with Madden at year end.
fuck i hate Maddon right now. Always wants to be the smartest guy in the park. fucking moron has Heyward on the bench so he can play our fucking catcher in the outfield
It's the same play even if your at short stop you dumbass Russell. I get it you want to win the game but anything other than a rocket to you, get the out and fight another inning. If he wanted you to go home you would have played in.
Joe definitely made a thing out of Pittsburgh throwing up-and-in just to try to spark his team. He couldn't afford another shitty performance that looked like the previous 3. At least this one would've felt different for fans. Of course, Willson loved it.
He’s got a ton of pop in the bat. Brings life to the order. The strikeouts aren’t awesome but worth the good