4/18/21 Acuñas @ Cubs - Wilson gets a shot

We’ve had to work our bullpen to death because of all the close games early this year. Finally a chance to rest our key relievers, and Snit brings in one of our best guys in a 9-run game. All he had to do was keep Tomlin in for three more outs.
 
CJ9 said:
We’ve had to work our bullpen to death because of all the close games early this year. Finally a chance to rest our key relievers, and Snit brings in one of our best guys in a 9-run game. All he had to do was keep Tomlin in for three more outs.
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and then Matzek throws 6 straight balls.
 
And now in a game with zero leverage, our dominant reliever with a history of the yips has completely lost the strike zone. Some real great stuff from Snit here.
 
MadduxFanII said:
You guys are being rather harsh on Heyward. For all his struggles, he's been an above-average hitter for his career, and he's creeping up on 40 WAR. He hasn't lived up to his minor league hype or his contract with the Cubs, and he's struggling this year (as is everyone else on that roster), but he's had a perfectly solid Major League career.
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I know that, but he’s been a well below average hitter for 4 of the past 6 years, and one of those he was exactly average and the other was a 60 game sample.

That’s not something you just stick with and hope your luck changes, especially when you’re of his pedigree.
 
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CyYoung31 said:
So, he’s out until the ASB. Awesome.
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If anything, at least we can hope Snitker learns a lesson here. The first time Acuna looks like he's hurting - at all - you take him out without asking whether he's OK to keep playing.

For all the "maturity" everyone's been giving him credit for, I don't think he has a clue how much it will hurt the team for him to be on the shelf for 2 weeks or more.
 
Nice thing is we also have 2 days off over next 4 days so if he misses series he would be going into Friday game only missing 2 games but 5 days off
 
Tapate50 said:
Ballplayers want to play ball. They don't ask out of the lineup.
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They don't - that's right. But it was obvious to anyone watching how uncomfortable he was. They should have gotten up to check on him before he ever got to 2B - he got chased back a couple more times before getting there. Once he was there he continued pointing to it while he was talking to the Cubs' infielders.

Looks like we might have dodged a major bullet, but there's no telling how much more strain he added to the injury diving head-first when he scored.

Really hate to admit it but the guys had a good point when they compared Trout's situation, mentioning how little he runs anymore. I love watching the incredibly exciting version of Acuna as much as anyone when he's freewheeling it at the top of the order, but his bat is just too valuable to let him hurt himself. This goes right along with the oblique strains, broken fingers, wrist issues, etc. he can get when diving back into bases that can eventually take away flexibility and eventually sap some of his power.
 
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