bdutts
- Houston, Texas
I’d guess it’s make or break for Hoyer. He’s been middling for three years.
Chicago Cubs 2025
- Status
Assad is making his first minor league start on Tuesday. He’s probably a week or two from coming back. I’d assume he’ll bump Rea back to the pen.
Caleb Thielbar is a non roster spring training invitation type pitcher for the A’s. What a joke the third or 4th best revenue team in baseball has to use him in a 2-1 game
Great series win
By the tone of this thread, you’d think the Cubs went 3-6 against the Padres, Rangers, and Dodgers, rather than 6-3.
Ya’ll should try enjoying things… it’s been awhile since we’ve had anything to enjoy.
Ya’ll should try enjoying things… it’s been awhile since we’ve had anything to enjoy.
The PCA game!
I
I do think they need to act like a major market team and make a trade for a headline starter. They also need to bite the bullet with Tucker.
Unfortunately, I think that Rickett's is planning for a strike and work stoppage in 2027, which is going to be a doozy.
If they make it out of April in first place, I think it's going to be fairly smooth sailing. They definitely got the short end of the straw when it came to the March/April scheduling. Good grief.
I do think they need to act like a major market team and make a trade for a headline starter. They also need to bite the bullet with Tucker.
Unfortunately, I think that Rickett's is planning for a strike and work stoppage in 2027, which is going to be a doozy.
Can't blame the players with the starvation wages. Most qualify for food stamps.
Can't blame the owners. They are lucky to already be billionaires with all the money they are losing.
The difference between someone with a couple million dollars like the players and a billion dollars like the owners is about...a billion dollars. Another way to frame it, a million seconds is about 12 days, whereas a billion seconds is 31 years.Can't blame the players with the starvation wages. Most qualify for food stamps.
Can't blame the owners. They are lucky to already be billionaires with all the money they are losing.
I hope the players strike and get paid.
Most players are not millionaires. Most players make a nice 6-figure salary for the 4 or 5 years of their MLB career.
$760,000 is the minimum pay. 19 Cubs are making over a million. Two of them are on the injured list. Another is making $950,000.
https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/chicago-cubs/payroll/_/year/2025
bdutts
- Houston, Texas
And the players have zero risk in all of this, especially with guaranteed contracts. Think Justin Steele is going to give back a prorated amount of his 6.55M since he's out for the year after four starts?
In the interest of full disclosure, I really don't care who "wins", because in a work stoppage, fans lose. I will have no problem finding other things to do if/when there is a work stoppage.
bdutts
- Houston, Texas
The players who are under 950K are pre-arb players.
We are not a poverty franchise. World Series aspirations should be the name of the game. You can't win a world series with this pitching staff.
We’ve played probably the toughest schedule of any team thus far and are in first place. Relax and enjoy the season.
We won't be in first place for long if Counsell doesn't realize Justin Turner is a PH bat once or twice a week and not a plug and play in the 3 hole hitter.
Also, it's pretty obvious this team is poorly constructed. Pearson is a guy a good team takes a flyer on and pitches him in blowouts or in the minors until he learns his control. We're throwing him into a 3-3 game on the road. Just one of almost a dozen glaring failures on this roster.
Ah well, blow out loss coming. Pearson into a 3-3 game. Literally only a poverty team would do that.
Also, it's pretty obvious this team is poorly constructed. Pearson is a guy a good team takes a flyer on and pitches him in blowouts or in the minors until he learns his control. We're throwing him into a 3-3 game on the road. Just one of almost a dozen glaring failures on this roster.
Ah well, blow out loss coming. Pearson into a 3-3 game. Literally only a poverty team would do that.
Last edited:
Definitely love playing games like we're the Pirates or A's... 3-1 game turned into throwing a 10 ERA guy who has pitched worse than that into a winnable game. Teams in our revenue wheelhouse like the Padres and Dodgers just stacking 1-2 ERA relievers while we stack Nate Pearsons and Caleb Thielbars.
Did I stutter?
KBLEE
- Montgomery, IL
Seiya Suzuki is injured. Who else is he gonna play? This is not a deep team
Jed should be ashamed of this bullpen he assembled. A amateur could have done better.
Workman against a righty.
Playing Turner and hitting him 3rd are different things. I think it's debatable whether Turner should be playing with Suzuki hurt. It's clear Turner is the 2nd worst hitter on this team behind Shaw at the moment though, so hitting him 3rd because people should slide into their usual lineup spots is really dumb. In fact, Ross doing that for 3 months that one year when Suzuki was hitting like a relief pitcher is why they missed the playoffs.
I don't blame Counsell for any of the bullpen mess though. Half of the relief pitchers on this team are just as likely to give up 7 runs in an inning as they are to pitch a scoreless frame. Which is why I didn't get why everyone was so optimistic in this thread. This bullpen is one of the worst in the league.
- Status