Well, this sucks.
Cubs lefty Justin Steele is undergoing season-ending surgery Friday to repair the flexor tendon and address the UCL. Unclear on damage to UCL until doctor goes in, Counsell said. A big blow to the Cubs.— Meghan Montemurro (@mmontemurro.bsky.social) April 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
No clue if it’s a full TJ or not, but as far as this year goes it doesn’t matter.
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Hope Cade Horton is ready soon
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I guess Assad and Wicks are out there in the meantime too
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At least the Dbags are trying something
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It me, your temporary Diamondbacks fan
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Rice Cube,
Let’s go snakes love the snakes long time fan of my local team
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Hope the Cubs find a way to take advantage of this
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Assuming of course the Dbags save this instead of messing around like they are now
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Go Cubs
Extend Tucker/division lead
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Crap
Cubs must score multiple runs now
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One run has been scored (dying laughing)
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I’m seeing the Cubs play the Padres on Wednesday. Kinda disappointed to miss Shota, but excited to visit Petco.
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Perkins,
Have fun! Send pictures
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Ban in game live interviews with players on the field already for fucks sake
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berselius,
At least limit it to dugout
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Solid spot start from Rea
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3.2 IP for Rea, much appreciated
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Please no hurt Kelly
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ZZ radio calls piss me off
I hope when Pat retires they get Len Kasper back so I don’t have to deal with him anymore
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BUSCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Head for the mountains, Michael!
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I have been off the grid today. Did not know my towel-drill premonition had proved prophetic. What a goddamn bummer.
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But I’m sure Carson Kelly is fine.
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PCA!!!
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Yessir
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PCA improved his wRC+ on the season by 30 points tonight
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No one should ever have to hear Karl Ravech talk for longer than two minutes in one day.
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At the risk of jinxing it, whatever happens from here on out, the Cubs pen (let’s face it, including the starter) has already exceeded expectations tonight.
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Heard the calls in the car, go Cubs
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I believe that’s a double pending review
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Good ABs
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screw the closer fellas
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Or toot the blan, we can’t tell you what to do.
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I’m glad they got the insurance run but there were some questionable decisions that inning
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Mmm Hodge
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Pete –> beep beep
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A few bases for PCA today
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Pretty inexcusable not to plate PCA after a leadoff triple.
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I do not like stranding leadoff triple
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Big W.
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Woo
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I am content
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If I told you before Friday the Cubs would be a few fortuitous bounces away from sweeping this series, would you have believed it?
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Rice Cube,
I don’t believe you now! (dying laughing)
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andcounting,
(dying laughing)
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not a sweep but the sentiment applies for a series win in LA
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berselius,
Yub nub
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So sad to see BlaQue Treinen take the L, couldn’t have happened to a better guy
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Rice Cube,
One of my least popular Star Wars opinions among other Xennials/elder Millennials is that the Special Edition ending of ROJ is a million times better than Yub Nub.
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What are the Cubs options with Steele out for the season?
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dmick89,
Rea will need to be further stretched out.
Wicks can probably piggyback and is also probably stretched enough to take 4 or 5.
Assad needs about a month to get back into game shape.
I think Chris Flexen is probably the first emergency call up if they need it.
Keegan Thompson is still in the organization.
Cade Horton is more realistic as an option closer to June.
They need to cobble together stuff until at least the Fourth of July when a trade is more likely.
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Perkins,
I did like the nice touch of toppling the Palpatine statue
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berselius,
So last year I went to the Skywalker Saga marathon (dipped out after ROJ, which I think is the proper endpoint for that term anyway) and I don’t know if it was being up all night watching Star Wars in a theater with a bunch of other dorks or just seeing Anakin’s story from start to finish, but it felt genuinely cathartic. It’s such a more fitting coda than the silly Ewok song.
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Stormtroopers are useless
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Just realized that we actually got JD for a west coast road trip instead of Sutcliffe. You love to see it.
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Rice Cube,
Could also offer a King’s ransom for Sandy Alcantara. But barring that they’ll just have to roll the dice with Assad et al.
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berselius,
I think Assad is a very underrated pitcher but obviously he is not on the same level as Steele
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berselius,
I thought the Cubs already needed another good starter so getting someone like Alcantara is even more important now.
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They probably don’t roll the dice on a Sandy trade until June, so they still have to cover like 6 weeks…they’re more likely to convince Lance Lynn to unretire and even then they’d need a month for him to ramp up
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No time for a preview so here’s some team rankings checkins (not including Sunday’s game)
Cubs wRC+: 125 (2nd)
Cubs BSR: 3.8 (1st)
Cubs Defense: 3.1 (2nd)
Cubs SP ERA: 3.91 (15th)
Cubs SP FIP: 4.39 (23rd)
Cubs RP ERA: 4.53 (21st)
Cubs RP FIP: 3.83 (17th)
Kyle Tucker wRC+: 207 (8th)
Kyle Tucker WAR: 1.3 (2nd)
Seiya Suzuki wRC+: 163 (25th)
Seiya Suzuki WAR: 0.6 (30th)
PCA BSR: 1.4 (2nd)
PCA Defense: 3.4 (2nd)
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Relatively easy
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Appreciated this
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Someone made this remark yesterday and it appears to be the case, the Cubs currently sport the largest division lead in the majors
https://www.mlb.com/standings/
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Last I looked, his numbers in Iowa were pretty good.
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Spencer Turnbull is still out there, and has been working out for teams.
There’s $21M floating around out there, probably not making money on the stock market unless Pete R is channeling insider info.
Dead horse —–> Beaten
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BVS,
The $21MM will be partially used to take on a Sandy Alcantara or other contract at the trade deadline, if that is the implied plan
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Rice Cube,
I’ll believe it when I see it etc etc
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Fun with small sample sizes – single day changes
Cubs wRC+: 127 (2nd)
Cubs BSR: 3.4 (1st)
Cubs Defense: 2.5 (2nd)
Cubs SP ERA: 3.86 (14th)
Cubs SP FIP: 4.28 (20th)
Cubs RP ERA: 4.28 (21st)
Cubs RP FIP: 3.71 (15th)
Kyle Tucker wRC+: 203 (5th)
Kyle Tucker WAR: 1.2 (3rd)
Seiya Suzuki wRC+: 164 (21st)
Seiya Suzuki WAR: 0.6 (32nd)
PCA BSR: 1.4 (2nd)
PCA Defense: 3.4 (3rd)
PCA WAR: 0.7 (15th)
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With the PA threshold reduced to include Carson Kelly
Kelly wRC+: 315 (1st)
Kelly WAR: 1.2 (6th)
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berselius,
Amusingly if you go all the way down to 1 PA minimum, the wRC+ leader is sneks pitcher Ryne Nelson, of the Dbacks finale bullpen meltdown fame.
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berselius,
Did he hit a home run that day? (dying laughing)
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Rice Cube,
Looked it up, RBI single pfft
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https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2025/04/14/kyle-tucker-rumors-extension-talks-actual-numbers-nothing-doing/
Bert with the Tucker talks roundup.
Something I haven’t seen mentioned, except indirectly with the structure of Vladdy Jr.’s deal, is whether the upcoming CBA fight is giving more pressure for players to sign extensions now, given how weird the post-lockout market was in 2022.
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berselius,
The interesting thing about the Vladdy contract, other than its blatant play at avoiding Canadian taxes, is the signing bonus heavy structure allows Vladdy to be paid whether they play or not pending a lockout
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Rice Cube,
Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking too.
Counter to my argument about the 2022 weirdness was the Kris Bryant deal, which was weird on multiple levels (dying laughing).
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Between certain world events and MLB pissing me off, this has certainly been a Monday
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No comment from me here but this is certainly interesting eh
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Rice Cube,
The Rockies number is especially bananas
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The Cubs do walk a lot!
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Protect Shota at all costs
https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2025/04/14/shota-imanaga-singing-in-the-shower-is-todays-random-cubs-content/
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Jesus Christ
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/04/rockies-to-place-kris-bryant-on-injured-list.html
I wonder if this just ends his career
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To-day’s base ball squadron
LF Happ
RF Tucker
DH Turner
1B Busch
SS Swanson
2B Hoerner
CF PCA
C Amaya
3B Shaw
SP Taillon
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Turner in the 3-hole is depressing af.
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Rice Cube,
Of all the Cubs core players from 2014-21, KB was the one I thought had the best shot at a HoF career. Sad to see him crater so quickly and completely.
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andcounting,
Given the lineup, all he needs to do is grind an AB and get on base, but yeah it’s for sure a downgrade
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Big Tigers fan here
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Mups are lit in BOS-TB
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Perkins,
Felt similarly with Rizzo. Huge bummer that he’s on the couch after all those crazy concussion problems last year. I don’t know that he would be in the HoF but I thought he could be a good (2-3 war) player through his late 30s (and hopefully as the face of the cubs)
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berselius,
(Not going to look up his age, I’m sure he’s like 32 tops, right. Right?!)
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berselius,
Regret to inform you that Anthony Rizzo is now eligible to run for President
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Ah Twins
https://bsky.app/profile/awfulannouncing.bsky.social/post/3lmswuan5zk2l
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Oh good. Sutcliffe. Please stab me.
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98 mph heat, gonna be a tough one tonight
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No no-hitter for Taillon
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Nice of Nico to take care of the no-hitter
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andcounting,
Marquee must have heard me praising them for not dragging him out during the dodgers series (dying laughing)
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SD failing to exploit the market inefficiency by signing Heyward in a place where there’s rarely a rain delay, smh
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berselius,
The song is wrong, it does rain in Southern California occasionally
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berselius,
I was thinking the same thing, (dying laughing). New meaning to the term “announcer jinx.”
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Balls
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BUSCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Why is Sutcliffe on my tv? He sounds drunk.
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Go Cubs
Go Busch
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dmick89,
Guess JD had to go home
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Cubs refusing to desist this inning
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Cubs grinding ABs tho
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Oof the TOOTBLAN
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Alas
TOOTBLAN
But I guess they didn’t feel like challenging because it sounded like it was close
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Any chance they missed a balk on that?
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dmick89,
And he refuses to shut up. It’s like he does all his drinking between innings.
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Big heat check from PCA on that TOOTBLAN (dying laughing)
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I’m liking 2025 Taillon so far
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Radio guys made it sound like Shaw should not have been charged with an error
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New padres pitcher looks even younger than Craig counsell
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Ugh flashes of Cubes baseball
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Sigh
Never easy
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What a stupid inning
Impressive Keller got out of it
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The bullpen has sucked in just about every game I’ve seen this year.
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BABIP gods are angry today
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Payback for the cubs win over the Padres with like 3 balks and 24 infield singles
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My days of thinking that Pearson is a white flag are certainly coming to a middle
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He’s a likely option tomorrow, as in to Iowa
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Rice Cube,
Agree. Pearson down. Wicks up.
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BVS,
I was thinking Palencia but sure…Keller made his pitches too but got bit with poor luck and bad decisions, Pearson was just pure bad
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Maybe. Wicks on same schedule as Rea so they may piggyback. Palencia could be up for a few days.
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PCA is having another solid day at the plate at least.
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Pretty sure Pearson has allowed runs in every game he’s appeared so far.
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Cubs catchers rule!
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2-out RBI gets you into heaven
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Probably doesn’t matter but maybe let Shaw try there, I don’t know what that might do for confidence
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Welp time for bed
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That’s that
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Happy Jackie Robinson Day y’all
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