Iowa Cubs 6 @ Nashville Sounds 2
The Sounds are 14-36. That's insane.
This is how much the Cubs hate Ian Stewart. Josh Vitters is back on the DL and they are giving the majority of starts at 3B to Edwin Maysonet (1-3, HR, 3 RBI). Hyde Yokids also had a home run and went 2-4. Brett Jackson and Donnie Murphy had the only other extra-base hits; each had a double.
Chris Rusin dominated, going 8 strong innings with a single earned run, with 8 strikeouts and no walks. He should still be DFA. Eduardo Sanchez allowed a run in an inning.
Tennessee Smokies 3 @ Birmingham Barons 2
Ronald Torreyes didn't get on base, but neither (technically) did Arismendy Alcantara. Alcantara had his 8th home run of the year. Christian Villanueva had a double and a triple this game. He's really come on strong lately. Ty Wright had the only walk of the game for the Smokies.
Kyle Hendricks dominated again. He allowed 2 runs in 6.2 innings, and struck out 6. Kevin Rhoderick had the hold and Frank Batista had the save.
Tampa Yankees 4 @ Daytona Cubs 6 (11 innings)
Only thing you need to know about this game is that Javier Baez hit a walk-off 2-run HR.
Austin Kirk had an ok-ish day. He went 5 innings and allowed 11 baserunners, so he got lucky only allowing 3 runs. Austin Reed allowed a run in 2 innings, and then Eduardo Figueroa, Larry Suarez, and Frankie Del Valle allowed no runs in 4 innings.
Kane County Cougars 5 @ Quad Cities River Bandits 7 (5.5 innings)
Gioskar Amaya had a double and 2 walks. He never made an out this game. Dan Vogelbach hit a 3-run home run in the 5th to make it close. Only Oliver Zapata and Pin-Chieh Chen also had hits in this game.
Dillon Maples had a really shitty game, and Cubs Top Prospect Lendy Castillo dominated again.
VSL Cubs 5 @ VSL Rays 6 (12 innings)
Comments
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MylesQuote Reply
Lineup tonight vs LHP Guy who isn’t Gavin Floyd
CF DeJesus
SS Castro
1B Rizzo
LF Adolfo
RF Hairston
C Navarro
3B Valbuena
2B Barney
P Feldman
Lots of lefties today. Wonder if Danks has a big reverse platoon split or something.
*checks*
Wow, he does. .327 wOBA against for LHH in his career, .318 vs RHH
BerseliusQuote Reply
Don’t look now, Baez 1.000 OPS last 10 games. Also only 5 Ks in last 10 games (43 ABs, 11% K%).
JonKneeVQuote Reply
@ Myles:
Someone on the internet will have remixed that into this by the end of the week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Ijb0Ndw-g
Rice CubeQuote Reply
HP says the gun at the Cell is indeed hot, probably by about 2mph. So Jackson is still throwing around 93, down from last year.
BerseliusQuote Reply
He’s been producing like that for a couple of weeks now. Mixed in a few walks too. Y’all wanna get back on the Baez bandwagon before he starts putting balls in parking lots on a regular basis again.
sitrick2Quote Reply
Is Nate Schierholtz dinged up or something?
MylesQuote Reply
Who the hell is “Hyde Yokids”? I would have thought Brent Lillibridge but didn’t they send him back to junior high after that hilarious mixup.
joshQuote Reply
@ Myles:
TJS for him! TJS for everybody!
joshQuote Reply
@ Myles:
I don’t think he’s allowed to hit against lefties. Reverse splits be damned.
rice in limboQuote Reply
So Jerry Lee Lewis has a museum, and it’s located in a drive-thru liquor store:
http://home.no/thelewismuseum/index.htm
uncle daveQuote Reply
Maybe Castro will pull a Carlos Gomez. The trick is him doing that in a year the Cubs are actually competitive.
joshQuote Reply
Hey, a run!
Rice on iPadQuote Reply
I think that’s a defensive TOOTBLAN for Dunn.
BerseliusQuote Reply
I think Lewis Yokum, Frank Jobe, and James Andrews should be in the HOF.
SVBQuote Reply
SVB wrote:
They need to take out everyone who has ever had surgery from the HOF until these guys are in.
AlvinQuote Reply
Wind!
BerseliusQuote Reply
Navarro making up for that canceled HR of Castillo’s
WaLiQuote Reply
@ Alvin:
(dying laughing)
dmick89Quote Reply
More surprising: Navarro hitting two homers or Hairston getting on base?
uncle daveQuote Reply
Don’t look now but Navarro’s wOBA is .331 this year
MylesQuote Reply
Of course, it was .271 going into today
MylesQuote Reply
Also, Arismendy Alcantara is 3 for 3 today with a triple
MylesQuote Reply
@ Myles:
Why would I look now if you told me what it was? Unless you didn’t want us to look at what you said and in that case why did you say it?
WaLiQuote Reply
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ uncle dave:
Well the first one has at least already happened this season.
joshQuote Reply
Another great game for Feldman (assuming he is done): 6 IP, 6 H, 0 BB, 7 K, 2 ER
WaLiQuote Reply
It’s Dioner Navarro’s day, wow. He’s been involved in all but one of the runs scored.
BerseliusQuote Reply
Holy shit Navarro
BerseliusQuote Reply
Wow. 3 AB, 1 BB, 3 HR, 4 R, 6 RBI (so far)
WaLiQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
Cubs are going to find a way to lose this one, aren’t they?
joshQuote Reply
@ josh:
Why can’t you just let them be great?!
rice in limboQuote Reply
@ rice in limbo:
It’s not me! It’s them!
joshQuote Reply
Navarro is the best player on the team. (dying laughing)
dmick89Quote Reply
It’s Dioner Navarro’s world and we’re all just living in it.
Aisle424Quote Reply
So I see Navarro’s wRC+ increased from 66 to 131 today.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Berselius wrote:
That’s a pretty modest difference and I wonder if it’s significant. I’d like to think that the decision to stack the lineup with lefties was dictated (or at least recommended) from on high by statisticians like Tango who did all the proper regression analysis.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Don’t look now at the Cubs run differential.
GBTSQuote Reply
I just saw a headline that says Jake Westbrook was going to throw a more “intense” bullpen session this week. WTF does that mean? If he going to do it while chasing bandits on horseback? While cliff diving? While in outer space? Or was his previous bullpen session just super lax, like from a recliner in his rec room?
So many questions. Maybe I should click on it.
GBTSQuote Reply
@ Rizzo the Rat:
I don’t have my copy of The Book handy, but it’s a pretty big difference when you compare it to the usual split (which IIRC is relatively large). Danks has been pitching in the majors for quite some time.
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
Right, I’m sure he’s unusual; I’m just wondering how large the reverse platoon is. i.e., the regressed split should be even smaller than the observed one (.009) and I would guess that his true split is a virtual toss-up between lefties and righties.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
Great, now all I can think about is looking at the Cubs’ run differential. Thanks.
uncle daveQuote Reply
@ Rizzo the Rat:
I ran it through my platoon splits projections spreadsheet and his regressed career split should be:
.314 vs LHP
.322 vs RHP
so an overall swing of 17 points.
Granted, this regression spreadsheet is based on batter splits, maybe it’s different for pitchers.
BerseliusQuote Reply
I checked it against this more recent one from DRaysBay
http://www.draysbay.com/2012/4/21/2964485/a-new-regression-tool-splits
And get that his career split ‘should’ be
vs RHP: .320
vs LHP: .319
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
Hm, they do something slightly differently in their tool. But it’s all kinds of fucked up for guys with reverse splits for some reason.
If all you know about Danks is a projected .320 wOBA and his percentage of LHB faced, his split would be
vs LHB .312
vs RHB .340
BerseliusQuote Reply
Hawks!!!!
WaLiQuote Reply
GBTS wrote:
Sheeeeeeeiiiiiiittttttttt.
Sen. Clay DavisQuote Reply
Soooooo…
Bowden —> Iowa
Putnam —> Cubs
Burnett —> Iowa
Fujikawa —> 60-day DL
Deck chairs —> rearranged
Rice CubeQuote Reply
New Shit
MylesQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
I thought Bowden was released by the Cubs, did we resign him?
WaLiQuote Reply