Illiniaaron
- Geneseo, IL
Cubs are the third-worst team over the past two months only ahead of the A’s and White Sucks. 20-32.
It’s really a boring team to watch. Case in point the ninth inning Sunday night. Diaz thinks it’s a good idea to come in with an illegal substance on his hand and is immediately tossed. We all wait around forever for the next guy to get warm. Happ thinks it’s a good idea to swing at the first pitch down three and pops out. Morel takes a fastball down the pipe on 3-2. Swanson singles, new pitcher. Wisdom pinch hits and takes three strikes. Wtf. Great entertainment.Tom and Jed, The worst thing that can happen to your team is not horrific hitting and bullpen pitching. It is fan apathy. Not that I watch any more, but I almost hope that Comcast and Marquee can't come to an agreement before September.
Somehow the Cubs are not in the bottom 10 in runs scored, OBP or OPS. And somehow there are 7 teams with a worse slugging %.The Cubs has 10 hits and 7 walks last night and could only muster 4 runs. Another 12 left on base. This is getting ridiculous. And, yes, the bullpen still sucks.
Somehow, some way, velocity has to be curtailed.To me that says MLB has an offense problem.
they lowered the mound from 15” to 10” before the 1969 season , to help the offense , so there is precedence to make changes .Somehow, some way, velocity has to be curtailed.
Well and the thing is, both the weakness of production and unfavorability of style in hitting as well as the ever-increasing injury rate of pitching have the same cause. It's the velocity.they lowered the mound from 15” to 10” before the 1969 season , to help the offense , so there is precedence to make changes .
I don’t know if lowering it more is an answer , or moving the rubber back a foot or two helps or is even possible , but it’s clear pitching in general is dominating . some type of change might be in order
Shouldn't that be incentive enough for the pitchers to stop throwing at max velocity?the ever-increasing injury rate of pitching
Max career earnings of the high velocity guys wildly outstrip soft tossers. Even if its short term money, the money and chance to even the reach the bigs jump exponentially with high velocity.Shouldn't that be incentive enough for the pitchers to stop throwing at max velocity?
Pitchers are going to do whatever it takes to get outs, even if they know their elbows are a ticking time bomb. Interview after interview they all say the same thing.Shouldn't that be incentive enough for the pitchers to stop throwing at max velocity?
Exactly. A pitcher that can eat up innings and stay healthy is a valuable commodity. I don’t see inning or pitch limits as viable. You could reduce roster sizes so pitchers had to be available more often but good luck getting that through the union.its actually hard to legislate safety in sports in some areas
helmets were introduced in football first in leather and then in old school plastic and now high tech plastic. we still have injuries.
but eliminating helmets totally might very well lower the head and neck injuries . Unintended consequences can be hard to predict
While I would love to see a reduction in pitchers arm injuries, for other selfish reasons, I would love to see more offense.
Im not so much into seeing 3 homeruns every game , as I am seeing 10-12 singles/doubles and batting averages back up to .275-.295 for 5-6 guys in the lineup
but telling a guy in MLB that he needs to lower the velocity of the pitch , or reduce his allowable pitches/innings per week or per season, good luck with that
True...The checks still clear while you're rehabbing your Tommy John.
I like Jed and would be reluctant to fire him.Jed needs to be fired. Outside of the starters, he has assembled a team full of replacement-level or worse players and a top 10 payroll
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well , now we know it wasn’t Rossy’s fault last yearJed needs to be fired. Outside of the starters, he has assembled a team full of replacement-level or worse players and a top 10 payroll