Cubs beat saying Alzolay is officially out as closer until he regains his confidence
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Frickin pathetic play this weekend to lose 2 of 3 to worst team in MLB
What a joke of a weekend. Splitting a sweepable series 2-2 with the worst team in baseball.
Should be leading the central with a 15-6 record …. Terrible performance
Hendricks is an automatic loss right now, curious to see if this is enough to send him to the bullpen and give Brown and Wesneski some more starts. Hopefully Steele is back sooner than later. That at least shores up 1 spot in the rotation.
Morel with a -0.1 WAR on Baseball Reference and I’m confident it will only be worse once today is uploaded.
Need better results if he’s going to be the cleanup or we need to find a different situation for him. He is not the guy this FO tries selling him to be.
Need better results if he’s going to be the cleanup or we need to find a different situation for him. He is not the guy this FO tries selling him to be.
He's still just 24 years old which makes him the 2nd youngest position player on the current roster with Canario who is 23 the only younger player. I'm willing to give him some runway when he hit 26 HR in 388 AB last year. He may need to get bumped down in the lineup with this slump but the power potential is still there.
I noticed that yesterday his last AB. Whiffed at a pitching that dropped on the plate, then disagreed with the ump on a pitch over the middle of the plate and slightly above his belly button
Morel shouldn't have to be the guy. Missing Happ, Suzuki and Bellinger's slow start add to the frustration. I'm not worried about the offense but the way they addressed the bullpen pisses me off. Brown, Wesneski and Thompson are the hopes to bail us out but adding Amonte, a throw in and Neris a vet on the decline grades out to F.
I took that as more of a reaction to himself not swinging at those obvious strikes. Regardless, he looks somewhat lost at the plate right now
Bullpen? He needs to go on some bogus injury list and start planning his coaching career.
Yep. IL-Arm Fatigue.
You don't cut him and you make it as graceful as you can because he's going to be one of those 'legends' that they keep around the club for a ling time.
