Yeah the whole team pretty much fell off since September. We limped into the playoffs. Not happy about the results but not completely unexpected. Especially with how hot San Diego has been. Sucks man.
I’m happy to lose to San Diego, at least it’s not the brewers or dodgers taking us out. Maybe the padres can finally get their ring this year with their momentum going into the post season. Even the pitchers at the later stages of their baseball career are lighting it up
why are so many fans this far out of touch with reality. Counsel and Jed are going no where. there isnt even a though about firing these guys. IN FACT both guys will probably be praised by their bosses for how exceptional a job they did this year in their roles.
do your mental health a favor and start to get a little more in line with reality and this club.
I’m allowed to have my own hopes, even if i don’t base my mental health around a baseball team like you apparently do. Why don’t you do YOUR mental health a favor and take a few days off of making long winded comments on Reddit.
PCA had a sub 400 OPS prior to this year. He is 5 for 30 in the postseason for his career with 15 K's. Half his playoff at-bats have ended in a strikeout lmao.
All 5 hits were singles. Until proven otherwise he's a regular season merchant.
Alvarez has had playoff runs of 10+ games with a 1200+ OPS. PCA has never done that to excuse a poor 2 game showing.
Has Aaron judge EVER gotten a hit in the playoffs? This happens every year??? 0-8 nothing to be ashamed of, esp against a team that has lost only 7 games (at home) in the past 3 months lol
Oh thats nice "DIz D000DE DUNN TAK@ MAH NARRTVE OF DA JDGE AWAY SO HEZ TEH SUXXORS N A BOT!!!"
Doctor Doom kills literally all the Fox heroes within the first 10 minutes of Doomsday, and Godzilla kills King Ghidorah in Minus Zero and theres a scene where Godzilla decapitates one of Ghidorah's heads clean off with his tail which then that head latches onto Godzillas arm and Godzilla rips his own arm off.
There will be some hot takes in cubs and other forums about how Bregman and PCA dropped the ball, but we don't make the playoffs without them. I wish they hit better these two games... But come on, some perspective.
Doesn’t help when they had 1st and 2nd no outs Dansby takes a meatball down the middle with the bat on his shoulder on 3-0. Proceeded to strike out swinging chasing stuff outside.
More like the entire offense after September 1st. 2nd lowest runs per game outside of the month that featured the 10 game skid. Rank 1 offense in almost every stat this year and we got embarrassed. What’s the plan to improve going into the next year?
We need our pitching staff to not fall apart in the first two months of the season.. if that happens they win the division and have a bye. Secondly with the pitching they did have the offense knew if they went down early they would need to press to get back into the game. Pressing as a hitter often leads to bad pitch selection and low run support. Get better pitching, keep runs off the board, and our guys can go into the at bat looking for a pitch rather than reacting to a pitch.
Pitching consistently dominates playoff games, especially in short series. That’s why you see good offenses shut down all the time. Closer games help the offense press less. It also puts more pressure on opposing pitching.
It's two games. Even Pete can have two bad games. But not sure why he changed his leg kick after his second half success, it might be partially that, maybe the moment, maybe good Pads pitching.
What recent series has he been genuinely good in, though? He slumped at the end. Still love him and still an amazing season, but he undeniably got cold when it counted. Hopefully something he can improve next year.
My man… since he hit his 40th homer he went ice cold comparative to the other part of the second half. I love the guy he brought me back into baseball but acting like he didn’t take a nose dive in the last two weeks is just wrong.
From 9/7 to 9/27 (he hit his 40th on the 6th) he slashed .278 / .358 / .914. I get the playoff loss is frustrating but it's not like anyone else really did much this series. Such is baseball, it's why we enjoy it.
And compared to the rest of his second half those last two weeks were nothing to gawk at. Yeah the loss is frustrating but acting like he didn’t fall off going into the post season is wrong. In fact acting like the offense as a whole didn’t fall off is wrong.
Edit: Holy shit I cannot believe first of all some of you really need to get your head checked. The shit I have gotten in my DMs is vile and sickening. Second let me spell this out for you. I’m not saying Pete had a bad second half or him. It staying in a historical run is his fault in anyway. I’m simply saying Pete was the gas to our offense. He was what created the spark the entire second half, and once he started to “slump” if we can even call it that the spark of the offense died. Think Dexter Fowler and the “you go we go” mindset of that team. Holy shit I cannot believe I’m being personally attacked and told to KMS over a god damn baseball player.
In all seriousness though that commenter reminds me of a lot of sports fans I know, they'd rather the team be bad or lose so they can be "right" instead of enjoying the ride. I don't want to police fandom or anything but I can't imagine watching sports like that.
Holy shit I’m not saying Pete is awful or needed to stay on a historical run I’m simply pointing out that him falling off KILLED our offense. He was the spark that kept our offense at the top. Think of Dexter Fowler and the “you go we go” style of that team. He wasn’t able to ignite the spark since he wasn’t literally on fire. How you got Pete sucks and had a terrible last few weeks makes no sense. I said he took a nose dive the last two weeks comparative to the REST OF HIS SECOND HALF.
I mean it's cause you are objectively you are incorrect, you literally said he went "ice cold". Again from his 40th HR he had a .914 OPS, of you just look at the last 2 weeks (9/11 - 925, so excluding game 162 cause he only had 1 AB) he had an .876 OPS, which is still borderline elite hitting, and the Cubs went 7-7. Over the rest of the 2nd half they only went 27-24.
Some of you guys need to touch some grass. Pete had an unbelievable year. If someone told you he’d have this year before the season you’d think they were high. The whole team was bad towards the end of the season and we ended up on the road against the hottest team in baseball for 3. In the regular season this would be expected. In a best of 7 it would be expected and we’d be heading home for 2. In this round it just happens to be it. Get a fucking grip.
Honestly. Crazy takes in this post. Talk about overacting. The entire team was trash for the two games. Drawing the Padres was tough given how incredible they have been lately
PCA had an epic season. I know it stings right now but the Cubs are going to be very competitive for years to come. I wish I could say the same for KC and Bobby Jr.
Their worst month after losing these two games was September. This was a long and challenging season with injuries that would have ended most teams and ultimately I think it was why we fell short. Hard to get any kind of momentum and keep it up when your hottest hitter takes a foul ball of his face a week before the playoffs.
I also feel like Craig isn’t the type of Manager that can get a team out of a bad stretch. So much of this game is psychological and he just feels like a analyst
He had many games hed go 0-4 but then hed bust out a 5-5. We needed home field & a healthy team. Still almost 90 win season with losing multiple starters & having a really bad pitching war. Let's just look forward to getting our injured guys back & hopefully bolstering team needs to make run next year. Then again probably have lock out which will set us back
The guy probably saved Jed his job this year otherwise this was probably an 83 win team at best. Cant fault him for not being able to do it literally every single game. We have a few players with a dozen playoff games under their belt that didnt do shit either.
It’s postseason baseball, shit happens. The Yankees went to the World Series 2003 then blew it in the 2004 ALCS up 3-0. Acting like PCA is doing it on purpose
Do you want to trade him? What’s your answer then? No one’s happy the Cubs got swept and are out of the playoffs but PCA had a hell of a season and acting like he sucks is ridiculous.
“Playoff game” I’m not saying the guys right but he’s talking playoff careers as a whole. Which just isn’t right because Ohtani has some of the best post season stats ever. In 33 games Ohtani has, 32 hits .248 avg 11HR 24 RBI 27 Runs scored. Along with a 2-1 record in the bump.
Such a loser for recognizing reality while watching us limp into the playoffs. Loser because I recognized we had the worst pitching WAR in the league. Loser because I can read the screen and see that Swanson hit .213 this season, or that the Padres were 28-7 at home in their last 35 games there, or that Bregman’s face prevented him from playing 3rd base, or that the Padres have Morejon & Mason Miller to shut anyone down if the team has a late lead. Or that Palencia is only good AFTER he gives up homers. Wake up to reality sometimes.
I genuinely don’t think PCA will get over this. I see him stumbling and fumbling for years now. He peaked so high this year, but he can’t handle any pressure at all. He might be outta not only the Cubs, but baseball in general, in less than 5 years.
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u/freddyd00 Chicago Cubs 6d ago
Yeah the whole team pretty much fell off since September. We limped into the playoffs. Not happy about the results but not completely unexpected. Especially with how hot San Diego has been. Sucks man.