Dreamcast 106: Damn the Torpedoes!

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The Cubs are now 7-5 with a small lead in the NL Central as they continue to battle a tough April schedule. With the Final Four underway, the jabronis talk about:

  • Are we happy with this record?
  • Bullpen thoughts
  • Things we like so far
  • Those torpedo bats
  • Final Four/Championship Game predictions

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  4. berselius

    Cubs-Rangers mini-preview

    Monday Justin Steele vs Nate Eovaldi, 6:40 CT
    Tuesday Jameson Taillon vs The Shambling Remains of Patrick Corbin, 6:40 CT
    Wednesday Shota Imanaga vs Tyler Mahle, 1:20 PM CT

    deGrom is healthy for once, but the Cubs get to dodge him, so phew.

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  5. berselius

    Pop quiz hot shot: your team has an inner-circle Hall of Famer whose athletic heroics, personal trailblazing, and heroic death has served as an inspiration to people the world over for over half a century. However, a shitty canned cocktail company has offered you what can only be negligible dollars to take down a sign honoring your hero and to replace it with an ad for a shitty iced tea and vodka canned cocktail that no doubt makes Zima taste like a glass of 1982 Mouton Rothschild. What do you do. WHAT DO YOU DO?

    Well, if you’re the Pirates you make the wrong choice, but what the hell else is new? I talk about that down in the Daily Briefing and, as usual, I talk about lots of other stuff too.

    Calcaterra hasn’t lost anything on his fastball (dying laughing)

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  7. berselius

    Rice Cube:
    Seems like the Dodgers are visiting the White House today, so do with that information what you wish

    Looking forward to 45 serving them 3-hour old Taco Bell

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  9. berselius

    Priester has a career -0.4 WAR, so I’m going to allow it (dying laughing)

    Fangraphs graduation blurb

    Scouts like Priester, pitch data does not. He’s added a hard slider/cutter to his amazing-looking curveball, but his fastball still doesn’t miss bats and his report reads like Aaron Sanchez’s did.

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  10. berselius

    Also, the best part about the Blake Snell injury is that we won’t physically have to watch him pitch in the Cubs series (dying laughing)

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  12. berselius

    Semi-random team rankings check in for the Cubs

    wrc+: 123 (4th)
    BSR: 1.4 (5th)
    Def: 1.7 (4th)
    SP ERA: 4.20 (18th)
    SP FIP: 4.89 (24th)
    RP ERA: 5.18 (23rd)
    RP FIP: 4.48 (20th)

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  14. berselius

    To day’s base ball squadron

    LF Happ
    RF Tucker
    DH Seiya
    1B Busch
    SS Swandong
    C Amaya
    CF PCA
    2B Berti
    3B Workman

    SP Taillon

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    Rice Cube

    Guess Castro didn’t shove Theriot over until later and by then the latter was traded

    Daily Walkoff ⚾️
    Cubs #220

    “Around The Horn #2”
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    dailywalkoff.com

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  21. berselius

    Rice Cube,

    Would love to see that guy return to cromulence. Letting him go was the right move Cubs-wise but it’s really sucked to see him absolutely crater as a player, contract or not.

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    Rice Cube

    Too bad Bochy decided to just let his guy wear it, Cubs couldn’t really dig into that Rangers bullpen but Steele and Rea saved the Cubs too, two more games and then an off day

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  70. BVS

    Rice Cube,

    That’s the mind of hitting I was referring to in the podcast, where the bottom of the order gets on, and Happ drives them in.

    Also, yes, same company as mammoths.

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  79. Perkins

    Random question for everyone: outside of the obvious choice of 2016, what’s your favorite Cubs team of your lifetime?

    I’d probably go with 2008 for a number of reasons, and 2015 is a close runner-up. I’m hoping this year’s ends up high on the list.

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  82. berselius

    berselius,

    Results aside the 2004 Cubs might have been even more fun than 2003, First Lee-Ramirez year, and Zambrano’s best season, probably my favorite Cubs starting rotation ever

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  86. Perkins

    berselius,

    2004 was the first season I went into expecting the Cubs to be dominant. That last month was absolutely brutal with something like 22 games in 21 days and they just ran out of gas. Kind of a similar story in 2018. I remember going into 2009 with a comparable level of hype and that was super disappointing.

    2003 was fun and somewhat unexpected, and Wood and Prior were nails in the NLDS . I’d give 2008 the edge because of a really likable team (somehow even Jim Edmonds felt right), Zambrano’s no-hitter, Kerry Wood’s last hurrah (before coming back in 2011), the end-to-end dominance, Soto’s RoY campaign, Ted Lilly’s challenge to the Braves after they kept throwing at Soriano, and prime Lee-Ramirez-Soriano. Plus I got married, graduated college, and commissioned so it was a fun year all around.

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  89. Perkins

    Rice Cube,

    1998 was a fun one with the HR chase and Wood’s rookie season and 20K game.

    I don’t think MLB could have scripted a better ending than we got: seeing Sosa and McGwire hug it out was an all time baseball moment.

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    Rice Cube

    Perkins,

    MLB had to ruin it with the PED thing, just let them take whatever, home runs are cool (dying laughing)

    Though as I’ve grown I prefer liners in the gap but there’s nothing like a well-timed bomb

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  92. berselius

    To-day’s base ball squadron vs south paw Patrick Batting Tee

    LF Happ
    DH Suzuki
    RF Tucker
    1B Turner
    SS Swandong
    2B Hoerner
    CF PCA
    3B Shaw
    C Kelly

    SP Taillon

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  107. andcounting

    This team is so annoying in a good way, as in they are annoying to face. Long at bats, draw walks, stolen bases, extra bases, turn the batting order over a lot so they’re not just running up the pitch count early, they’re starting the dreaded third time through the order in the 3rd or 4th inning. The outfield covers a lot of ground, tough infield defense. They’re not a team like the Dodgers that you’re afraid to face, but you really don’t want to play them.

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  138. andcounting

    Rice Cube,

    TOOTBLANs are unforgiving, but caught stealing isn’t one.

    TOOTBLANs include extra base outs, outs on would-be sacrifice flies, pickoffs, double offs, fielder’s choice outs with an open base, batter’s interference, runner’s fielder choice, runner interference, caught stealing on a walk (also known as a Cedeno), hit by batted ball and sundry other things that can happen during a baseball game. Stolen bases are counted separately (unless preceded by a pickoff).

    https://tootblan.tumblr.com/About

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    Rice Cube

    berselius:
    I only had the game on mute for the last few innings, what was up with all the Rangers triples?

    The first was a stupid hop that got over Happ, the second Tucker just whiffed on at the side wall but he might have hurt himself had he gone full steam into that wall so I shrug

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  148. berselius

    Random fangraphs leaderboard fun

    Top player in MLB in offense: Kyle Tucker (10.6)
    Top player in MLB in defense: PCA (2.8)
    Top player in MLB in baserunning: PCA (1.4)
    Top player in MLB in WAR: Tucker (1.3)

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  152. Author
    Rice Cube

    Probably no big deal? Source: Justin Steele

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  153. berselius

    I put the radio broadcast on while I worked this morning, based on reporting from Sahadev the biggest upset of the game is that Levine had a long live interview with PCA after the game and he managed to not drop any F bombs (dying laughing).

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  155. berselius

    To-day’s base ball squadron

    LF Happ
    RF Tucker
    DH Suzuki
    1B Busch
    SS Swandong
    2B Hoerner
    CF PCA
    3B Shaw
    C Amaya

    SP Shota

    Sweep the leg!

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  158. Author
    Rice Cube

    I know the Cubs don’t always deserve the benefit of the doubt, including for injuries and keeping guys healthy, but it really does sound like Steele thinks it’ll be fine, just frustrating

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  165. berselius

    My 3yo nephew is at Dodgers-Nats today, his first ever baseball game. Looks like a happening one so far

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  171. BVS

    For me, late to the discussion, 1989 and 2008. Y’all know 2008. Fukudome’s rookie year. He taught the team to work a count and take walks.

    1989: Felt like the team was so deep and the bench could do no wrong. Walton and Dwight Smith finished 1-2 as ROY. Maddux won 19, backed up by Sut and the surprising Mike Bielecki (18-7, 3.14). Mitch Williams doing his wacky stuff as closer. Trade deadline pick up of Luis Salazar supplanted Vance Law and his Napoleon Dynamite glasses at 3b and Salazar went on a tear. We came back from a 9-0 deficit in the 6th to beat Houston 10-9 in 10 in late August — a game I watched from my first college apartment because cable was included and we had WGN. Grace and Ryno were amazing in the NLCS, but the pitching couldn’t figure out Will Clark or hold a lead.

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