Cubs 5, Padres 1

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OSS: The Cubs bullpen will never blow a lead again confirmed

Three up:

  1. Christopher Morel had the big hit of the game, a grand slam that chased Padres starter Joe Musgrove in the fifth. Oddly enough Yan Gomes’s solo shot to open up the scoring earlier in the inning was actually the biggest play of the day by WPA (dying laughing). Overall Morel went 2-3 with a walk and four RsBI
  2. Ben Brown had his first officially official MLB start and went 4.2 shutout innings, striking out five and walking one. He was on a pretty strict pitch count, so it was a bummer to see him pulled as he edged past 75 pitches. But I guess it’s hard to complain given all the pitching news around baseball of late.
  3. Unlike last night, the bullpen shut the door on this one, going 4.1 innings, giving up one run and one walk while striking out six.

Three down:

  1. Not too much to complain about here. The middle infield went oh-fer at the plate but made several great plays in the field. Dansby had the Cubs most negative play on the day by WPA, popping out with runners on first and second and no outs in the second with the score 0-0.
  2. Even with Smyly/Leiter/Almonte good to go it was a little surprising that the Cubs did not make a roster move going into this game.
  3. Residual complaints about last night’s blown lead linger amongst the fanbase, though it seemed like the team took it in stride. Cult of Craig Counsell etc etc

Next up

The Cubs go for the series win at 5:40 PM CT. Cyle takes on former Cubs prospect Dylan Cease, he of the trade I’ll defend to my dying breath (dying laughing).

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  1. Perkins

    I think there’s no way the Cubs win the division and make the NLCS in 2017 without Quintana, but holy hell did he turn into a pumpkin almost immediately after that.

    Also Jason McLeod was pretty bad at his job, huh.

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    berselius

    Perkins,

    Even aside from how much I liked Quintana at the time, I had no faith that McLeod et al would ever develop Cease (dying laughing)

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  3. Perkins

    berselius,

    That’s the other thing that prevents me from getting mad about that trade. Cease’s probable upside under the old development infrastructure was late inning reliever or mid-rotation starter.

    The best description I’ve seen of Jimenez is he’s like a player you’d create and max out all the other attributes with no points left for durability, so I’m good with that too.

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  4. Perkins

    Damn White Sox. At least I got to use both Kyle Farnsworth and the Infield Predator today.

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  5. Rice Cube

    Quintana trade was fine, guessing Cubs pitching infrastructure wasn’t in place yet to really help him shine, he seemed to figure it out when he left the Cubs which was super annoying

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    berselius

    Rice Cube,

    The major league club pitching dev was weird in the Bosio era. It’s easy to blame Bosio et al for failures with guys that were brought in like Quintana, but the Cubs also saw Jay Carrieta win a CYA and Cyle get pretty close to doing it as well. Q wasn’t any better under Hickey or Hottovy either.

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  16. Rice Cube

    Today’s intrepid squadron

    DH Happ
    RF Suzuki
    CF Bellinger
    3B Morel
    1B Busch
    SS Swanson
    LF Tauchman
    C Amaya
    2B Mastrobuoni

    So Nico gets a breather before Swanson does

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  27. Rice Cube

    First to fire Boras?

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  29. Rice Cube

    one day we will learn the full story, for now, like interpretations of Shakespeare productions, we can use our imaginations

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  30. Rice Cube

    WTF

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  31. andcounting

    Rice Cube:
    one day we will learn the full story, for now, like interpretations of Shakespeare productions, we can use our imaginations

    I don’t know, I can imagine quite a bi [spit take] . . . SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLARS?!?!?!

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  33. Rice Cube

    There is so much stupid in this story between the bank being tricked, the interpreter being a terrible gambler, the accountants or whoever not paying attention to disappearing money, and the bookie for just letting this guy continue to sink. It’s so bad. It causes me physical distress just thinking about it.

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  41. Rice Cube

    Could have been a crazy movie situation

    https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2024-04-11/shohei-ohtani-ippei-mizuhara-fraud-charges-whats-next

    Was Ohtani ever in any danger?
    On Nov. 17, 2023, the bookmaker messaged Mizuhara, concerned that he was not paying up.

    “I don’t know why you’re not returning my calls,” the message said, according to the complaint.

    “I’m here in Newport Beach and I see [Ohtani] walking his dog. I’m just gonna go up and talk to him and ask how I can get in touch with you since you’re not responding. Please call me back immediately.”

    There is no evidence in the complaint that the bookmaker made contact directly with Ohtani.

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