If you’d known that the Cubs would score 2, 0, and 2, runs in the first three games against the Dodgers, you’d figure they’d be lucky to be battling for a split on a perfect day at Wrigley. (And if you’d known Clayton Kershaw wasn’t going to pitch, well, you should be playing the lottery and not theorizing about baseball minutia.) And […]
Day: June 2, 2016
Thinking Probabilistically About Sonny Gray, Stephen Piscotty, Kris Bryant, and Kyle Hendricks
In the last 10 days, I’ve run a pair of Twitter polls. In the first, which I ran on May 22, I asked followers who they would rather have, Kris Bryant or Stephen Piscotty. My follower sample will totally skew the results, but: Who would you rather have? — Matthew Trueblood (@MATrueblood) May 22, 2016 […]
Lackey Back To His Old Tricks In New Ways In 2016
Lately, there haven’t been many game days in which Cubs fans wake up and wonder which version of the starting pitcher they’re going to see that evening. The Cubs rotation in 2016 has not just been good, it’s been exceptionally reliable in many ways. But going into the season, the potential for that head-scratcher day […]