The sweet smell of Provel and magically sticky baseballs is behind us, and the Cubs move from the home of one crappy beer to another. The Brewers could be a really fun team in a few years, but they are not there yet. Team Leaders (projected) Cubs OBP: Anthony Rizzo (.382) SLG: Rizzo (.529) HR: Rizzo / Kris Bryant (33) …
4/5/2017, I mean 4/6/2017 Thread World Series Champion Cubs (1-1) @ St. Louis Cardinals (1-1)
Time: 12:45 PM CST TV: WGN, MLBN Radio: 670 the Score Cubs Lineup Schwarber LF Bryant 3B Rizzo 1B Zobrist 2B Russell SS Heyward RF Montero C Lackey P Jay CF Cards Lineup Fowler CF Diaz SS Carpenter 1B Molina C Adams LF Grichuk RF Gyorko 3B Wong 2B Lynn P Will the Cubs Win? 56% Will the …
Cubs 2, Cardinals 1 (4.4.17)
OSS: Good Jake is Good. Three up: Jake Arrieta looked like his old self for the first four innings of the game, with insane movement on his pitches that had the hitters guessing and great pitch efficiency. His control tailed off as the game went on, throwing a few wild pitches and seeing his pitch count rise due to needing …
4/4/2017 Gameday Thread- Reigning World Series Champion Chicago Cubs (0-1) @ Reigning NL Central Runners-up Cardinals (1-0)
View PostCubs 3, Cardinals 4 (4.2.17)
OSS: Carlos Martinez is good at sports. Three up Willson Contreras hit a game-tying three run homer in the ninth inning, a bomb to left that I am surprised not to see in the upper deck. I thought he also looked pretty good backstopping Lester and keeping runners on their toes, at least in the part I watched on tv. …
World Series Champions @ St. Louis Cardinals Game Thread
Time: 7:35 PM CT TV: ESPN, 670 The Score Series Preview Gameday LINEUPS (0-0) Kyle Schwarber, LF Kris Bryant, 3B Anthony Rizzo, 1B Ben Zobrist, RF Addison Russell, SS Jason Heyward, CF Willson Contreras, C Jon Lester, P Javier Baez, 2B Lester ZiPS 189.2 IP 8.92 K/9 2.14 BB/9 3.08 ERA 3.34 FIP (0-0) Dexter Fowler, CF Aledmys Diaz, SS Matt Carpenter, …
Series Preview: World Series Champions (0-0) at St. Louis Cardinals (0-0)
The only way this could be better would be if the Cubs opened the season at home, raising the World Series banner with the Cardinals in the house. As was mentioned in this weekend's (correctly recorded) podcast, the Cubs had relatively little spring training drama this year aside from maybe Heyward's new swing. Meanwhile the Cardinals situation is such that …
OV Podcast Episode 17: The Season Approaches
In this episode: Is Hector Rondon cooked? The Ian Happ conundrum Javy and Addy over/unders Lack of spring training drama Sitrick meets LaTroy Hawkins Guessing the lineup World Series cash grab critiques Predictions for the 2017 season Enjoy. Or don't. I can't tell you what to do.
OV Podcast Episode 16: A soupçon of podcast
We are back! Sort of. We squeezed this short podcast in last weekend, and true to the OV brand I messed up my audio setup and missed the first 5-10 minutes of it. In this episode, Jeff (berselius), David (sitrick2), and Myles (Myles) discuss Dexter Fowler, sleeper agent? Comments on the roster turnover, or lack thereof How many games will …
The 25: Jake Arrieta
Previous programming note from Myles: Now that the season is fast approaching, and I've started to get the itch to talk baseball again, I'm hoping to pick up the pace. Hopefully I can convince the other writers to do the same. I'm going to take a look at the 2017 Cubs, starting with the best players and taking a descending …