Iowa Cubs 0 @ Round Rock Express 2
In Brooks Raley’s first start of the season he allowed a bunch of hits, didn’t strike many out and walked nearly as many as he struckout. Last night he went 7 innings, allowed 8 hits and 2 runs. He struckout 7 and walked 0. Raley might prove to be valuable in the bullpen, but as a starter, he leaves a lot to be desired. He’s good depth, I guess, but his career strikeout rate is only 13.8% and he’s walked 9.5% of the batters.
Jensen Lewis pitched an inning and allowed a hit.
The Cubs had 3 hits and 0 runs so this will be easy. Brett Jackson’s new swing was 1-3 with a walk and an obligatory strikeout. RF Ryan Sweeney was 1-4 with a strikeout. Ty Wright was 1-3 with a strikeout. Donnie Murphy and Brian Bogusevic each walked once.
The I-Cubs are now a healthy 1-7.
Chattanooga Lookouts 6 @ Tennessee Smokies 3
Alberto Cabrera struckout 5, walked 2 and allowed a home run over 6 innings of work. He surrendered 8 hits and 4 runs, all of which were earned. Marcus Hatley threw 2 innings, allowed 3 hits and a couple of runs while walking 1 and striking out 3. The 9th inning was worked by Brian Schlitter who allowed a hit and struck a batter out.
Catcher Jair Fernandez was 2-4 with an RBI. Fernandez is 26 years old and the best he can say about his career is that he was traded for RA Dickey back in 2008. That was before Dickey was very good.
SS Jonathon Mota was 0-2 with 2 walks. Matt Szczur has been slumping the last few games. He was 0-4. Arismendy Alcantar was 1-3 with a walk. Alcantara also had his 2nd stolen base of the season.
The Smokies didn't do much offensively (5 hits, 4 walks). Christian Villanueva had the team's only extra base hit, a double. He was 1-4 with a strikeout.
The Smokies are now 2-5.
Clearwater Threshers 12 @ Daytona Cubs 2
Starling Peralta had 7 strikeouts and no walks. Great start, right? Wrong. He allowed 4 home runs, which will pretty much ruin any strikeout to walk ratio. He also allowed 8 hits and 6 runs.
No worries, Yeiper Castillo also gave up 6 runs, but in only 3 innings of work and without the help of a home run. He gave up 7 hits, walked 1 and struckout 1.
Taiwan Easterling was 2-4 with a double and 2 strikeouts. He’s 4 for his last 9 with a home run and a double.
Stephen Bruno, Dustin Geiger and C Chad Noble were also each 2-4. Bruno and Geiger doubled.
John Andreoli and Zeke DeVoss took the team’s only walks.
Javier Baez was 0-4 with another strikeout. He has 4 hits on the season, and when he gets them he’s hitting them pretty hard. Of the 4, 3 have been for extra bases. Nobody is going to have 75% of their base hits be extra base hits over a long period and Baez has to make some improvements. He’s been miserable ever since he reached High A Daytona near the end of last season.
He’s struckout at least once in each of the Cubs 7 games so far this year. He has 33 strikeouts to 6 walks in 115 High A plate appearances. It’s only 115 plate appearances, but so far this year those numbers are worse than a year ago. He’s also made 4 errors already.
Kane County Cougars @ Wisconsin Timber Rattlers
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The I-Cubs also managed to string together an obligatory 9th inning rally, They’re ready
BerseliusQuote Reply
For those of you who were too cool to play along with the cowboy hat fad ———-RESPEC
I now observe a slow migration to avatars with any old silly hat, which I expected.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
dmick89 wrote:
Safe assumption, but what if he needs drugs to help him get off?
NotrynoQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
I’m banking on fashionable scarves.
joshQuote Reply
I assume it won’t last all season, but the A’s are playing some damn good ball right now. I wonder if the Rangers will end up doing well this year, or if they’ll look like the 2009 Cubs.
joshQuote Reply
So Carlos Quentin is getting suspended, right?
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
I would assume.
joshQuote Reply
@ josh:
Bud must not have woken up yet.
Remember that one time Chan Ho Park got rushed by a hit batsman and he tried to tae kwon do his way out of it?
That was awesome.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
I do not. But it sounds mildly amusing. I mean, as far as these kinds of juvenile displays go.
joshQuote Reply
Mattingly said he should be suspended as long as Grienke is out, which I would guess is at least a month, maybe two. It would send a message for these guys to think before they did stupid shit like that. One run game, 3-2 count, zero attempt to get out of the way…
joshQuote Reply
@ josh:
I think he gets no more than 10…probably closer to 6-8 games. Precedent and all that.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Today’s #Cubs lineup: DeJesus CF, Castro SS, Rizzo 1B, Soriano LF, Schierholtz RF, Castillo C, Clevenger 3B, Valbuena 2B, Villanueva P
(dying laughing)
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
I didn’t say it would happen, but I wouldn’t be upset if it did.
joshQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
At least Lillibridge isn’t in, but Clevenger at 3B… should be fun.
WaLiQuote Reply
3B is a black hole this season.
joshQuote Reply
@ josh:
Until future Hall of Fame 3B, Josh Vitters, gets the call up.
#committed
mikeakaleroyQuote Reply
@ mikeakaleroy:
SAVE US JEBUS VITTERS!
joshQuote Reply
@ josh:
this season?
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ josh:
Black hole sun, won’t you come.. and wash away the rain?
WaLiQuote Reply
@ WaLi:
At least now we know what Suburban Kid looks like in real life.
mikeakaleroyQuote Reply
@ mikeakaleroy:
(dying laughing)
dmick89Quote Reply
@ mikeakaleroy:
Like what you see, McElroy? Eh?
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
Some day… *clenches fist*
joshQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
mikeakaleroyQuote Reply
http://tangotiger.com/index.php/site/comments/inverted-w
dmick89Quote Reply
I hate that sensation when someone draws a walk and you think somethings cooking, then you realize the pitcher is up to bat.
joshQuote Reply
josh wrote:
WaLiQuote Reply
WaLi wrote:
I guess more appropriate to this game.
WaLiQuote Reply
@ WaLi:
True that
joshQuote Reply
@ josh:
Sweet, my dude’s covered!
WaLiQuote Reply
josh wrote:
This may be even more appropriate:
joshQuote Reply
josh wrote:
This is fun.
WaLiQuote Reply
NOBODY FUCKS WITH DEJESUS
WaLiQuote Reply
josh wrote:
joshQuote Reply
@ WaLi:
(dying laughing) I was gonna post the exact same thing, but then some dude called me at work and now I’m tryna type this while he’s on the phone (dying laughing)
uncle daveQuote Reply
@ josh:
/Limerick’d (Am I doing this right?)
mikeakaleroyQuote Reply
dmick89 wrote:
I can’t find the post where we had all the movie posters inspired by the used of “Inverted W” instead of “M.” I feel like it was on ACB.
Aisle424Quote Reply
That was one of the funniest days ever on the internet.
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ Aisle424:
I’ll have to look through the database to see if I can find that. Sure it wasn’t here?
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
It might have been. It would have been very early on.
Aisle424Quote Reply
So I’m not able to watch the game, but how does Clevenger look at third? Idly curious about how well he’s transitioned to the infield.
uncle daveQuote Reply
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
@ dmick89:
It was definitely on ACB.
If you have the archives, just search “Mollusk Genitals.” I can’t imagine that came up more than once. (dying laughing)
gbts22Quote Reply
Dial Inverted W for Murder
MishQuote Reply
@ uncle dave:
He was drafted as a 2b.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ gbts22:
I’ll have to search the database. Comments only exist there.
dmick89Quote Reply
uncle dave wrote:
Still ugly as fuck.
Aisle424Quote Reply
He looked out from the long shot.
joshQuote Reply
@ dmick89:
A reverse Biggio?
@ Aisle424:
(dying laughing)
uncle daveQuote Reply
Just in case there’s anyone left that doesn’t think Hawk Harrelson is a moron, check it:
http://deadspin.com/brian-kenny-loses-his-shit-on-hawk-harrelson-472678674
mikeakaleroyQuote Reply
The comments are gone from the database too.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
I haz a sad. That was an epic day.
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ mikeakaleroy:
Yeah, that’s the problem. They don’t want to win. Of course, he doesn’t mention the problem of how you handle the (admittedly this has an infinitesimal chance of actually happening) situation where both teams want to win. I wonder how such a game would be resolved, in Hawk’s mind?
joshQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
I still have the ones I made.
GBTSQuote Reply
@ josh: The old-fashioned way! With hustle and scrap and grit and toughness and good old-timey lack of hitting in your middle infield!
Jed Jam BandQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
Aren’t you special? (dying laughing)
dmick89Quote Reply
@ Jed Jam Band:
And you measure and predict their ability to do that with good, old-fashioned ‘Murican Know-How®, of course.
joshQuote Reply
@ mikeakaleroy:
False. On the DL with back pain. Probably from carrying the team, amirite?
mikeakaleroyQuote Reply
Posey is going to hit this ball 700 feet.
GBTSQuote Reply
Don’t you hate that sensation when the new Cubs closer tries so hard not to embarrass the old Cubs closer
Suburban kidQuote Reply
I think Fujikawa might suck. I know, I know, small sample size etc.
joshQuote Reply
I hate this fucking team
MylesQuote Reply
Marmoled
dmick89Quote Reply
Fuck these fucks
WaLiQuote Reply
A Cubbing does commence
Suburban kidQuote Reply
josh wrote:
dmick89Quote Reply
I really hate the Scottish guy on the Scots commercial. His voice really bugs me. I’m not racist.
joshQuote Reply
Before long a rule 5 pick will be the cubs closer.
dmick89Quote Reply
Where was Marmol?
GBTSQuote Reply
Kidnapping Retards.
NotrynoQuote Reply
Well, this game is exciting.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
The Fatman strikes again
MylesQuote Reply
Fuji owes Dioner dinner. But Villy owes Fuji a punch in the balls, so he might not have much an appetite.
joshQuote Reply
Giants wanted it more.
/Hawk’d
GBTSQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
Uh, it’s a tie game.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
WHY WAS NAVARRO PINCH HITTING WHEN HAIRSTON WAS AVAILABLE? (dying laughing)
uncle daveQuote Reply
This would be a nice win for Fujikawa.
GBTSQuote Reply
GBTS wrote:
He earned it. He just gets W’s
MylesQuote Reply
Holy shit, is Lillibridge useless as tits on a boar hog or what?
uncle daveQuote Reply
Lillibridge is a piece of shit
WaLiQuote Reply
@ Rizzo the Rat:
That’s one way of putting it.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ uncle dave:
Dale starts with D and Dioner starts with D, so they are like first letter in first name friends.
WaLiQuote Reply
@ WaLi:
He eats slug shit he finds under rocks and regurgitates it to feed the children he molests.
joshQuote Reply
DeJesus with a triple away from the cycle (dying laughing)
WaLiQuote Reply
Cubs win.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Cassie!
uncle daveQuote Reply
I just realized the Cubs are carrying three catchers. This is such a weird fucking team.
joshQuote Reply
Cubs win?
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Wow (dying laughing)
WaLiQuote Reply
That Fujikawa, he just finds ways to win games. He didn’t have his best stuff, or maybe he did, but he kept the Cubs close, which was his job.
dmick89Quote Reply
Fuji gets the win. How about we just pass an official rule that in this case the starter always gets the win? It’s all bullshit anyway, but come on.
joshQuote Reply
@ Rizzo the Rat:
Yeah, like I kept the radio on after the Belt double. (dying laughing)
GBTSQuote Reply
He grinded out the 9th and got his first win.
dmick89Quote Reply
Castro is cool.
Rice on busQuote Reply
@ josh:
Even if the starter is pulled early?
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ GBTS:
You missed the best part of Fujikawa’s outing: the bottom of the 9th.
dmick89Quote Reply
Did someone post the Rally Hagar?
GBTSQuote Reply
I actually think there’s something to be said for keeping track of (team) wins and losses when a starter pitches, since the starter is by far the person most responsible for a team’s success (and he only plays part-time, which is good for with-or-without you comparisons). Over the course of a career, a win-loss record would probably tell us something, especially compared to the team’s overall record (though it would still be relative, of course, as in Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz,)
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Fujikawa showed great presence of mind when he beaned Posey, veteran move there
MylesQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
When was this?
GBTSQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
How classy and full of confidence.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Fujikawa leads team in 9th inning rally
dmick89Quote Reply
@ GBTS:
This? http://obstructedview.net/commentary-and-analysis/cmon-whats-ol-gil-gotta-do-to-get-a-bunch-of-overpaid-players-on-the-cubs.html
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
Right, I remember that, I don’t see what it has to do with bullpen, but I was talking more about when did Chicago Bear Jew learn to complete sentences?
GBTSQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
He must have learned how to write complete sentences through their discussion over the bullpen on twitter.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ GBTS:
Right after Fuji blew the save. He conveniently shut the fuck up when Romo blew his opportunity.
Aisle424Quote Reply
I took his bait on Twitter the other day when he was bitching that the Cubs didn’t spend millions on the bullpen, so he interpreted that to mean that I don’t think having a bullpen is important. I just don’t think it is important enough to piss away good money on. Cheap, young, hard throwing arms. And lots of them. Then fill a hole with a vet if you have to.
Then he called his friend to jump in so I had to go back and forth with that guy, who actually was more reasonable. Today, BearJew jumps back out of nowhere to re-start the whole thing again because he was at the game and all pissed off.
Aisle424Quote Reply
Cubs runs scored today before Fujikawa: 2.25 per game
Cubs runs scored today after Fujikawa: 27 per game
dmick89Quote Reply
@ Aisle424:
(dying laughing)
dmick89Quote Reply
uncle dave wrote:
….maybe?
GBTSQuote Reply
@ Rizzo the Rat:
I agree that over the course of a career it will tell us something, but it’s so heavily influence by the offense and defense that it becomes fairly useless in small samples. Even in large samples there are just better metrics. ERA is a better metric over a long period of time than wins. ERA is actually pretty good over the course of a career.
dmick89Quote Reply
So John Buck is hot! (in terms of his hitting performance–otherwise we’ll ask WaLi’s SWMBO). And the Twins/Worley are offering little resistance against the Mets.
I know it’s a SSS, but it’s fun when a player has a hot streak. Wish the Cubs had a player like that, aside from Michael Bowden.
SVBQuote Reply
@ Rizzo the Rat:
I’d be all right with at least giving thew the inverted M in situations where he was in line for it and there was a flip flop in the course of a single inning. But, yeah, what you suggest would probably be more valuable than what we do now. Like Memelo was reading off pitching matchups and most were like 0-0 with the occasional 1-0/0-1 thrown in. Zero useful information in that. Doesn’t tell me how many times they pitched, the outcome of the games, or there effectiveness. At least let the basic stats have some kind of information in them.
joshQuote Reply
Jose Reyes injury: http://paulsporer.com/2013/04/12/jose-reyes-injured-after-awkward-slide/
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
SVB wrote:
This Carlos Villanueva guy has looked pretty good in his two starts. Building that trade value.
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ Rizzo the Rat:
Jebus H Vitters! How the hell can a professional ball player slide that horribly?
joshQuote Reply
@ josh:
Also, the Blue Jays will never win anything, will they?
joshQuote Reply
So the Yankees had a 4-6-5-6-5-3-4 triple play. One force out and two rundowns. Kind of pathetic on the O’s part, really. Guy ahead of you is in a rundown, you advance, not fart around and wait.
joshQuote Reply
The Marlins are aggressively pursuing the first draft pick for next year.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
@ josh:
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=26222161&c_id=mlb
That is some epically bad baserunning there.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
@ Rizzo the Rat:
Yeah, what was Machado waiting for? Maybe they tagged out the lead runner quicker than in seemed. but he was barely halfway to 2nd.
joshQuote Reply
GBTSQuote Reply
Grienke has to have his clavical pieced back together with surgery. He actually broke it, not just dislocated like you usually see. Out 8 weeks following surgery.
joshQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
Nice. Was the batter called out for interference?
joshQuote Reply
ChicagoBearJew should have his head beaten in by Eil Roth.
joshQuote Reply
New Shit
MylesQuote Reply