Greg Hibbard

With last nights win, their second best winning percentage in a month so far was August. Crazy.

It’s crazy how good he is already. The one chink in the otherwise flawless looking armor seems to be walk rate, is that expected to improve, or is he about a 40-50 walk a year guy?

His BABIP is 70 points below his career avg this year despite hard contact and LD/GB/FB percentages being basically the same. I tend to think he is having a bad run of it right now.

Where did I talk about Cesar Hernandez? We acquired him because we needed better than Leury. Which he is. Not sure what you’re after with that remark. I think Madrigal’s walk rate is actually what will most hold him back most from a great OPS consistently. .320 is great BA but if it’s only .360 OBP…I don’t see him getting over .450 SLG. 15 games is way too small of a sample size and you know it.

Madrigal is a nice little player, but he’s not exactly going to be a WAR machine. The only thing about him that is spectacular is BA. I’m not sold he’s ever going to have enough power. Let’s not treat it like trading him up was some huge gaffe like the shields trade. In any event, giving him up while he’s injured was absolutely the right move to win RIGHT NOW. We will solve this Kimbrel problem in some way over the next month. Maybe Liam and him do need to flip roles for him to get his head back, let’s try it and see what happens. There’s too much talent for us to not be able to figure out a way to make this work IMO.

Keuchel went up there with nothing throwing garbage we had terrible defensive miscues bad bullpen pitching Cubs were amped up like it’s the WS and clearly had done rails of coke to get jacked for this game and had a gameplan of jumping on Keuchel ….and we still won by 4. I know we aren’t used to it, but yes good teams beat bad teams, and yes good teams hang with teams over .500, but good teams also take a total hot garbage flaming awful game and find a way to turn it into a W anyway nice to see the Cubs lose their World Series

Why waste the bullpen at this point? Either the offense can score a ton or they can’t. I don’t want to lose this game AND burn the bullpen

I don’t think Vaughn, Jimenez, Robert, and Grandal have ever been in the lineup all together?

I can understand that, but who? Who is the option? If Engel truly can get healthy, do you agree his offensive numbers alone (21 doubles, 3 triples, 16 homers over his last 462 PAs) deserve starter time? He has 1.3 bWAR in like 100 ABs this season...

Eh, I disagree. I do believe he can play 100 games there and be just fine - IF he's healthy. Vaughn can split time in RF/LF/1B, Jose can play one more season at 1st primarily while sharing the DH load with Eloy and 1st with Vaughn, while Eloy plays the other half of LF. We will have another Goodwin like OF somewhere anyway. Engel is a much better offensive weapon since his age 27 season and he's always been a great defender, so I would like to see him have more of a workload if he's healthy.

If Engel returns healthy in 2022, and Vaughn is also capable of playing there, why would we need a RF in offseason?

Yes, but he's DUE!

I think Yoan kind of needs a day off, tbh. He had that nice stretch of 10 games but if anyone could use some extra rest to get right over the next month, seems like its him.

Lamb can play third and first, Leury can play anywhere?

The sweet sweet sound of Jose Ruiz throwing balls

This really sucks.

I think Tatis would have gotten part time playing time by 2019 and his wins per game would have very much convoluted a playing time picture for an organization that does not traditionally do well sorting issues like this out.

Been thinking about this a lot lately. TA after 2018 was roughly only a .260/.290/.410/.700 hitter with inconsistent defense. He had about 2-2.5 wins per season on avg. 2018 itself was weird because almost all of his value came on defense, and he was personally off because of the death of his best friend, and his offense was way off. It all seemed a little aberrational at the time. Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems we stuck with him internally because we had no other immediate SS options. It makes me wonder if Tatis was still in the system, what would have happened. Maybe Tatis would have started 2019 and obviously been the same superstar anywhere, but what would have happened to TA? Would he have been relegated to super sub? Traded? Moved to right field? Relegated to bench player? Languished in AAA? Hindsight may tell us that TA would have eventually stuck somewhere, but I believe WE stuck with him for (very good) intangible reasons, even as many on this board and fans of the team (myself included) were seriously doubting he was a pro caliber player. Personally, I see the silver lining of the Tatis deal as the realization of TA at his natural position and the cementing of him being a team leader. I seriously wonder if he would have had the chance to ascend to superstardom had Tatis not been dealt.

18 hits! Cease! Hendriks! …NOT a loss! Here’s to NOT collapsing!

Wow, did I have that wrong. Lol

Can we please just concede all 3, fly home, save time, hit a big reset button, and get everyone fully rested? I’m so done with this road trip.

It’s opposites day everyone

Wide Man Cock

What the heck just happened there?

Excited for the AAAA White Sox @ Toronto game tonight it’s kind of like a “futures” game, except it’s “pasts” …past prospects…past their prime….