Brewers at Cubs Game Thread

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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. 

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  1. SkipVB

    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.

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  2. SkipVB

    @ 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.

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  3. mb21

    @ 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.

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  4. Recalcitrant Blogger Nate

    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

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  5. josh

    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?

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  6. Recalcitrant Blogger Nate

    @ 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

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  7. ACT

    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).

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  8. josh

    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.

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  9. josh

    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.

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  10. SkipVB

    @ 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?

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  11. josh

    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.

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  12. Mercurial Outfielder

    I feel bad for Lendy Castillo. He’s clearly not ready and Sveum is just going to keep running him out there.

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