2022 Team

[1060Ivy]

In the bleachers today as I’m an idiot and wanted to contribute to Ricketts historically bad team

[Butcher]

You saw a nice W, at least.

Side note, Andrew Berlin's son is on my kid's summer tournament team. I was chatting with him for a while last night -- he told me to expect one more bad season after this one. He didn't pretend that they're even trying to be competitive.

[1060Ivy]

Wow, thought having the Reds and Pirates in NL Central would keep Cubs from losing 100 games this season. Rethinking that assumption. The Cubs ERA for June is 6.79 and are 3-14 over last 17 games. The stats are from Tribune’s Sullivan article.

Can’t wait for how team does after the trading deadline. Not to worry as the Cubs will likely have 3/5’s of a new starting rotation after the deadline.

[Butcher]

I thought the same thing. I even thought for a while this team would finish 3-5 games under .500. This is difficult to watch (which is why I'm mostly not watching)...

[Auz]

Deliberately tanking might not necessarily work with next years lottery draft. It will certainly shorten the odds but I can see the Cubs just being another Bulls in which we never pick under 7 (Except for the Patrick Williams year).

[1060Ivy]

I’m ready to bitch slap the next “Cub fan” who states ‘what one player is not going to get the Cubs to a 500 team?’ as a rationale to trade Contreras from roster.

While I agree that no one player will get this squad to 500, would make the argument that 2-4 prospects don’t get the squad to becoming competitive within a few seasons without a solid veteran presence. I don’t know if the “rebuild” has dismantled the roster to the studs yet but see Contreras as foundational to club. Winning isn’t important for this season but having a veteran that demonstrates to rookies how to play the game correctly maybe more valuable than prospects

Yeah, Willson is gone in off-season regardless is a solid counter argument but I’ll counter that argument another day

[Butcher]

I'm not sure Hoyer is the guy who will lead us to glory again.

[1060Ivy]

Rizzo, Lester, Javy, Ross, Bryant, Fowler, Hendricks, Heyward, etc led the Cubs to glory

[1060Ivy]

Cubs take 2 of 3 from St Louis in St Louis including today’s 10 inning 6-5 win.

[1060Ivy]

Suzuki could be pretty damn good player - 2 HRs in 2 days

[Butcher]

They've been playing pretty good ball against some quality teams lately. Not sure what that means, but at least they've been more fun to pay some attention to. I went to the Saturday game against the Red Sox and the atmosphere was pretty electric; it was fun to have that feeling at Wrigley again.

[1060Ivy]

Was in bleachers for Friday afternoon’s game against the Red Sox and vibe was good but had about 1/3 Boston fans adding to environment

[1060Ivy]

Another series win - and against another team with a winning record

No clue what the team will look like after the trading deadline but glad the Cubs won today - only 11 games back. Watch out NL Central. Ha

[Butcher]

9.5 out of the wild card! Buyers at the deadline!

[1060Ivy]

Hell, if the Cubs simply don’t lose another game this year, they would likely win the NL Central and could catch the Yankees for best record in baseball!