04-13-2021, 11:55 AM
From Sharma's latest. Good times...
Quote:Cubs lead the NL and are third in baseball with a 28.8 percent strikeout rate. They're last in the NL in contact rate (71 percent) and 28th in baseball. The Cubs now have twice as many strikeouts (100) as hits (49). They have a collective .164 batting average and a 65 wRC+, both last in the game. According to Cubs historian Ed Hartig, the team's 49 hits are the lowest they've collected in any 10-game stretch since at least 1901.
The Cubs have scored 29 runs on the season, 15 of which have come via homers. In their last six games, they've scored 17 runs, 11 coming off home runs. Hitting homers is a good thing, but a team has to be capable of scoring in other ways on at least a semi-regular basis. And if they don't do that often, they better be hitting a lot of homers. The Cubs are squarely in the middle of the pack, tied for 13th in baseball with 12 home runs so far.
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On the season, the Cubs offense is ninth in percentage of breaking balls seen (32.1 percent), 15th in off-speed pitches (13.1 percent) and 23rd in fastballs (54.8 percent). When they actually see a fastball, they're certainly not on it, swinging at just 63.8 percent of the fastballs they get in the zone (26th in the league). They have the lowest batting average in baseball against those pitches and are 25th in wOBA (.272).