The 2016 Cubs: SPLOOGE SPLOOGE SPLOOGE

[Canadouche]

This fucking team.

This team fucks.

[Saul Goodman]

Jayson Werth is this year's frontrunner for the Gregory Polanco Outstanding Achievement in Outfielding Award.

[Quality Start Machine]

#5 starter, bunch of reserve players against the Nats?

I really hope the entire season is just the Cubs eviscerating all of Major League Baseball, up to and including the World Series.

The dues we've paid certainly make it affordable.

[Saul Goodman]

Memo to Dusty: Please continue batting the pitcher's spot, Michael Taylor (2016 OBP: .221 / Career: .272) and Anthony Rendon (2016 OBP: .297 / Career: .340) in front of Bryce Harper instead of Daniel Murphy (.449 / .334), Wilson Ramos (.373 / .303), or Ryan Zimmerman (.330 / .348) for at least the rest of this series. Thanks.

Today he sticks with Rendon 2nd (thank you) but subs out Taylor (damn it) for Ben Revere (fresh off the DL) and his career .328 OBP.  There are still far better choices farther down the lineup, so thanks, Dusty.

[CubFaninHydePark]

Jayson Werth is this year's frontrunner for the Gregory Polanco Outstanding Achievement in Outfielding Award.

Bryce Harper did a good job entering the running today.

[ChuckD]

Heh.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Heh.

I recall seeing the Vegas odds on a Cubs WS victory sitting at 4/1 at one point this spring and thinking that expectations were getting a bit out of hand.

Welp...

[PenFoe]

My guess is that this has already been done somewhere and I wasted a whole bunch of time, but wanted to see how the 2016 Cubs ranked through 30 games against the best teams ever.

Answer: Pretty well.  



One note - the much celebrated '94 Expos had a negative run differential through 30, so I didn't include them.

[Quality Start Machine]

My guess is that this has already been done somewhere and I wasted a whole bunch of time, but wanted to see how the 2016 Cubs ranked through 30 games against the best teams ever.

Answer: Pretty well. 

What's the latest point in the season any team has lost its 10th game? The Cubs are currently on track to make it to 50.

[PenFoe]

My guess is that this has already been done somewhere and I wasted a whole bunch of time, but wanted to see how the 2016 Cubs ranked through 30 games against the best teams ever.

Answer: Pretty well. 

What's the latest point in the season any team has lost its 10th game? The Cubs are currently on track to make it to 50.

Just of the list above: 
1984 Tigers - 48th game (1939 Yankees made it to 47, 1907 Cubs were 45)

[Canadouche]

Sorry to give you more work, but how about the '86 Cokeheads?

[Saul Goodman]

Tanner Roe-Wark (Copyright, Ron Coomer) is feeling the butthurt about the Cubs walking Harper: "I think it's scared baseball."

[PenFoe]

Sorry to give you more work, but how about the '86 Cokeheads?

Through 30:  
1986 Mets      147     96      51    22-8

[Slaky]

Sorry to give you more work, but how about the '86 Cokeheads?

Through 30:  
1986 Mets      147     96      51    22-8

And just for fun, if Buckner didn't fuck up...god damn baseball. It's so hard.

[Quality Start Machine]

Sorry to give you more work, but how about the '86 Cokeheads?

Through 30:  
1986 Mets      147     96      51    22-8

And just for fun, if Buckner didn't fuck up...god damn baseball. It's so hard.

He was supposed to fuck up in 1984, but the Cubs traded him away, so Leon Durham fucked up instead. So that grounder followed Buckner for 2 more years.