Tonight's game feature's the 14th and 17th slowest fastballs from the 2011 season. Justin Verlander's change-up was as fast as the fastballs from Paul Maholm and Chris Narveson last season. Between Shaun Marcum, Narveson and Randy Wolf the Brewers have the market cornered on soft tossing starting pitchers.
Brewers at Cubs Game Thread
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I see the ump won’t call the low strike today.
That was a good slide by Gomez.
Ramirez HUSTLED?!
SB by Ramirez? (dying laughing)
That’s the second throw in two nights by Soto that has sailed like that. Ramirez a stolen base? (dying laughing)
This is a year!
@ mb21:
Not sure if bad grip or the wind.
welp, Maholm not looking good so far
@ Rice Cube:
Brewers announcer said he’s been dropping his elbow on his throws to 2nd.
Wow Gonzo
@ Recalcitrant Blogger Nate:
Correct.
@ Recalcitrant Blogger Nate:
I don’t think his fastball hit 89 once and his control has sucked.
Wow this thread reminded me there was a game on and it’s 5-0 in the first? This certainly is a year.
If this was the NL Malholm wouldn’t make it past the first inning… wait…
@ ACT:
88.4 max so far: http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfxVB/pfx.php?month=4&day=10&year=2012&game=gid_2012_04_10_milmlb_chnmlb_1%2F&pitchSel=430904&prevGame=gid_2012_04_10_milmlb_chnmlb_1%2F&prevDate=410
We’re gonna need another beer
Swaymy out to argue early this year
@ Mish:
Yeah, you can’t justify watching this game past 9 pm, Mish.
Maholm saw Cubs were tops in fWAR among starters and said fuck that shit.
iirc maholm had a pretty fantastic spring training in terms of periphs
Somewhere in America, Randy Wells is pissed right now
Is Maholm hoping to be the second slowest fastball in MLB this year? 14th too good for him? I assume no one will be ever be slower than Moyer.
@ mb21:
I can’t justify watching this game at all, mb. So Justified.
Good thing Rodrigo Lopez was brought up….
Doesn’t Wakefield throw a fastball at around 70 mph?
Hey, an out!
Good thing the wind is blowing out today, so the Cubs can get those runs right back
/waitasec
Damn it, the mlb.com free game is on the west coast, so I’m stuck with the Cubs for now.
@ Mish:
I can’t wait to see the finale, but I also don’t want the show to go off the air for 9 months. (dying laughing)
@ mb21:
Something like that, but he’s retired. Maybe RA Dickey will still be slower than Maholm, but I haven’t listened to the interview on Fresh Air yet.
@ Berselius:
Barney will get 4 to 5 plate appearances so that’s 4 to 5 runs. Get a couple on in front of him in his 2nd PA and the pitchers hold them down the Cubs win this game.
Maholm only threw 41 pitches that inning.
I’ve only watched about 5 innings of the Cubs so far this year. This is ugly. Oddly enough, I like some of the players they got, including DeJesus
You know it’s not your night when the team’s power hitter is grounding into two.
I always thought Maholm was not that great when the Cubs played against him. Is there some rule where you have to have a left-hander in your rotation no matter what?
@ SkipVB:
I liked the interview, fwiw
I wonder if the Cubs can get to 70 wins. I think they will, but just wondering. It’s only human, right?
Wow, that was an out? (dying laughing)
that was a nice catch. i still like watching soriano play
@ Recalcitrant Blogger Nate:
He wasn’t making many catches last night, still not sure what happened there.
@ Rice Cube:
believe it or not, they will have some series sweeps, and once jackson and rizzo are up, there may be some fun young players to watch along with castro and possibly f7
that’s alot of fly balls for a GB pitcher
@ Recalcitrant Blogger Nate:
Did they have one last season. My recollection is that they didn’t have a single series sweep.
I hope you’ve avoided his heinous wife, though. You’ll turn to stone with one glimpse at her horrific visage. Recalcitrant Blogger Nate wrote:
I’ve entered bizarro universe. The Baltimore Orioles are good at baseball and so are the Astros.
@ josh:
Yes. They swept a 4-game series against the Pirates, for instance.
Jeebus. Forget it. -1.
@ josh:
I thought they had only one near the end of the year
The Cubs also had an early-season 2-game sweep of the Marlins. And a 3-game sweep against the Astros (though the Astros also swept the Cubs in a 3-game series).
@ ACT:
I remember they went a really long time before they won 3 in a row. That stuck out in my mind.
@ josh:
@ Recalcitrant Blogger Nate:
He’s in Sports Illustrated this week too (or maybe last week, I’m never up to date on my reading).
I could go for some Reedz about now.
Houston goes retro:
Aramis steals a base and Starlin takes a walk. Funny game.
@ Rice Cube:
The universe is self-correcting…
Yay scoring!
@ Rice Cube:
i like it
Is Brewers defense really this bad?
Shut me right up.
I think Corey Hart should wear his sunglasses at night.
Sean Marshall can pitch pretty well.
paul maholm, eating up innings four at a time.
There’s a good throw Soto.
87.2 mph average for the 4-seamer tonight for Maholm and 86.6 on the 2-seamer. Max of 88.4 and 88.2 respectively.
@ Rice Cube:
Keith Moreland says Barney made a meh tag attempt and Gonzalez should’ve been safe. Oh well.
@ mb21:
Pretty much exactly where he was last year.
So Zack Greinke suspended talks to the Brewers. Think he’d be useful in a Cubs uniform next year? I believe he’s right around 29 years old.
Dolis allergic to strikes.
Is this going to be Castro’s last season at short stop? He really doesn’t seem to be figuring it out. Maybe I’m being too hard on him.
Are there any good free agent shortstops for next season?
@ Rice Cube:
according to MLBTR:
Erick Aybar (29)
Jason Bartlett (33) – $5.5MM club option with a $1.5MM buyout; vests with 432 PAs in 2012
Yuniesky Betancourt (31)
Geoff Blum (39)
Ronny Cedeno (30)
Stephen Drew (30) – $10MM mutual option with a $1.35MM buyout
Alex Gonzalez (35) – vesting option
Cesar Izturis (33)
Jhonny Peralta (31) – $6MM club option with a $500K buyout
Marco Scutaro (37)
Ryan Theriot (33)
Omar Vizquel (46)
Jack Wilson (35)
I think the answer to your question is No. Want Theriot back?
I was listening to the Dodger’s game earlier and was disappointed not to hear Vin Scully. I guess he was sick. Hopefully nothing too serious. A bad cold seems like a bad time for him.
Erick Aybar might be a FA after this season.
@ SkipVB:
Then I think Castro stays at shortstop for a while.
Move Barney to short. Same bats available, fewer runs given away.
@ josh:
Yeah, Aybar is, but is he any good?
The Red Sox are broken.
@ SkipVB:
Aybar is good. Every other year.
email MD.
Peralta is the best on this list and I’m pretty sure the Tigers would hang on to him for $6M.
@ ACT:
Yeah, if Aybar has a good year this year, he’ll probably fetch a good price.
(dying laughing) He was the White Sox DH a year ago.
@ GBTS:
I don’t know if he’s better than Aybar. Both have their good years and bad years.
@ Rice Cube:
Yeah, but also: geese.
Those bastards are evil.
Maholm ———-> not transformed
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Definitely not more than meets the eye.
Remember when the Bulls used to play defense? That was nice.
I feel bad for Lendy Castillo. He’s clearly not ready and Sveum is just going to keep running him out there.
This ref is really making some questionable calls right now.
Soto! Finally!
Score before the 9th next time!
Soto!
Here comes CCD’s Obligatory Ninth Inning Rally (dying laughing)
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Are you questioning the wisdom of judging players based solely on their spring training performance? For shame.
Tyson Chandler is still a foul machine.
I think DeJesus got hosed, especially since Maholm didn’t get that low strike call earlier.
David DeJesus isn’t transforming, he’s deforming.
Derpy derpy fart noise.
*fart noise*
@ Rice Cube:
I think it was a mercy killing by the ump.
So Raul Ibanez had a good night.
Mariano Rivera —> back to normal
Cutter x 17 + fastball
This team sucks. Who could have predicted?
@ josh:
I like that the Cubs can at least score runs. I’d like them to try to prevent the other team from scoring now.
Rice Cube wrote:
The Cubs have scored 3.6 runs per game so far. That’s 2011 Astros-esque.
@ Suburban kid:
You and your fancy numbers.
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