I know we as Cubs fans aren’t real familiar with the concept, especially this season with all the injuries, but it is called pitching depth. Craig will figure it out. Shota and Boyd aren’t going to pen and since all-star break have been essentially just as good. We didn’t spend prospect capital to get Gausman and Holmes to pitch them out of the pen. With Assad having strong experience out of the pen too and Peterson being a lefty, they make the most sense. It’s a good problem to have.
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Hey, I am more than happy to be wrong. Looks like I'm misremembering. Thielbar has no excuses with being that bad this year with that being the case.
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I'm not saying it doesn't make sense. I just hope they are able to transition to middle- / long-relief, as neither will likely be pitching the 8th or 9th.
I just saw some Cubs fan site on Twitter touting Shelby Miller and predicting Holmes would be moved to bullpen in post season to give Cubs three legitimate closers on playoff roster. Beyond the fact that I’m not sure I’d call a guy with 13 career saves and 13 blown saves coming off TJ surgery a legitimate closer and just don’t see them moving Holmes to pen despite having had some success a couple years ago with NYY, I think the guy was spot on.
What a job by the Cubs brass to lock him up through 2032 at $19million/per. He is the 82'nd highest paid player in MLB and one could argue a top 5 position player in all of MLB right now.
not sure if I agree, I think Cabrera has the most high end potential, but he also has a better arsenal for the pen. I'd like to see him in the pen assuming those other two stay productive. Its crowded out there now.
The discussion was about who would be sent to the pen, and in your previous post you said Cabrera will be the 5th starter. Sounds like agreement to me. Now who “should” be sent to the pen is a different discussion. I still think Peterson should be the one mainly because he gives Cubs another lefty in pen. I’m also a tad leery about whether he can keep this up. The only year he’s been pretty much consistent for the entirety was 2024. Last year the bottom fell out in August and September, and prior to 2024 he’s been good some and bad at other times most seasons.
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Nice job by Peterson today. He struggled, but has kept them in the game. Now we need the offense to pick him up.
Cease has his stuff today. It happens.
I said that?? Don't remember saying that, but I say a lot things, if you say so I can think of time where I may have said that...but I am an Assad guy tbh. Pederson has also been great.
The pitching the Cubs have faced this week has been outrageous. Fried, Cole, Skubel and Cease. Heck of a run.
My bad. No you didn’t. A poster said that in a response to my post. And when you quoted my reply to him, I thought that was him responding again. I should have paid more attention to the names. My apologies.
As to Assad, I think he’s the most obvious to head to pen because he has plenty of experience there and has had success. Not everyone has the makeup for the pen, and he’s shown he does. That’s actually another reason why I prefer Peterson to the pen over Cabrera. I think the former will handle the move better mentally. Though he hasn’t pitched in relief during the regular season for a long time, he has about a half dozen relief appearances with the Mets in playoffs.
Hey, all this is a good problem to have, especially with how the first half went with the staff. Now Craig has pieces to move around. Let’s just hope he makes the right moves and we can make a run.
Well....... they're finding ways to win!!!