He can happen, just not in a pennant race. We have bigger fish to fry over the next few months
Agreed. Dude sucks. Needs to stay down into the minors until he gets his command in order and properly develops a third pitch.
I hate this move so much. Brought him up to confirm to any potential trade partners that Brown is not a Major League pitcher
Might want to consider adding another pitch or two to the arsenal.
Could be a good reliever but without a third pitch he’ll never be a starter. His other 2 pitches aren’t good enough.
This kind of thing that this front office does best. They rely so much on projections that even when a guy is proven to be not good, they still keep putting him out there because the projections tell them to.
The Brewers just caught you in the division and your answer was Ben fucking Brown to do what he always does and put up crooked numbers.
They don’t have anyone else right now, unless you’re dying to see Jordan Wicks again
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Poor Ben. He’s going to need a shrink after tonite. I know the haters still piss all over his record but the kid has good stuff. He needs a better pitching coach to put it all together. That 5th inning looked like the a clusterfuck of dodger-itis against the brewers. Everything that could go wrong did. Errors, soft contact hits, lapses in the battery. Put it behind you and move forward.
The kid ain’t ready. We’ll see in 10 days time if the front office does what they need to do or not. You can’t live on 4 starters for over a month it’s gonna kill you eventually.
He cannot start without a 3rd pitch. Maybe a good reliever. Problem is we only have 4 starters
if you need 4 innings, he’ll get you 4 innings. if you need 6 innings, he’ll get you 4 innings
In the pros he’s more suited to be a bullpen arm, nothing wrong with that
Yeah losing Taillon really hurt us. We need that 5th guy bad. I don’t think it’s going to be a blockbuster guy, but they’ll definitely get somebody better than Brown.
Kid’s lost it, hope he can figure it out.
If he had 1 more decent pitch he would be fine as a number 4/5 pitcher
We need a starting pitcher 100x more than we need a third baseman! <Drops mic. Walks away. Not listening to any counter arguments. >
Get him a third pitch and it could. But that’s more of an off-season thing I’d say.
Work on another pitch or join the bullpen. Just too easy to sit on one of the pitches.
The Brewers will be in first place after tonight and will not be looking back.. Cubs will just need to maintain the 4 seed for homefiled during the wild card round.
The starting rotation/bullpen was always going to be this Cubs team’s downfall. To be honest I’m surprised they made it this far. 3 good starters 1 mediocre one 1 bum and then an average to below average bullpen is not going to get it done in the long haul of a season regardless of how great the offense is.
From dreams of being a starter to suggestions of a bullpen role, the fanbase has thoughts.
Let me start by saying Ben Brown’s stuff has always impressed me. When he’s on, his pitches look elite…. With that being said a starter with 2 pitches, who is young and struggles with control isn’t the answer during a pennant run. I remember some sports writers saying earlier on in his prospect ratings talking about how he could be a great end game pitcher (setup maybe even closer one day).
Unless a trade is incredible (like a longtime front rotation starter….) I’d love to see him stashed for now (low level relief or AAA) and turn him into a late game reliever over next year or so. Just my two cents. Time to root for Mariners l!
Chill. He’s not ready now, but he might pan out.
The Ben Brown experiment is over.
I think he would be a great closer.
Dude has damn near a 7 ERA and fans still think he’s inches away from being a frontline rotation piece. Like how delusional are people actually?
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He can happen, just not in a pennant race. We have bigger fish to fry over the next few months
Agreed. Dude sucks. Needs to stay down into the minors until he gets his command in order and properly develops a third pitch.
I hate this move so much. Brought him up to confirm to any potential trade partners that Brown is not a Major League pitcher
Might want to consider adding another pitch or two to the arsenal.
Could be a good reliever but without a third pitch he’ll never be a starter. His other 2 pitches aren’t good enough.
This kind of thing that this front office does best. They rely so much on projections that even when a guy is proven to be not good, they still keep putting him out there because the projections tell them to.
The Brewers just caught you in the division and your answer was Ben fucking Brown to do what he always does and put up crooked numbers.
They don’t have anyone else right now, unless you’re dying to see Jordan Wicks again
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Poor Ben. He’s going to need a shrink after tonite. I know the haters still piss all over his record but the kid has good stuff. He needs a better pitching coach to put it all together. That 5th inning looked like the a clusterfuck of dodger-itis against the brewers. Everything that could go wrong did. Errors, soft contact hits, lapses in the battery. Put it behind you and move forward.
The kid ain’t ready. We’ll see in 10 days time if the front office does what they need to do or not. You can’t live on 4 starters for over a month it’s gonna kill you eventually.
He cannot start without a 3rd pitch. Maybe a good reliever. Problem is we only have 4 starters
if you need 4 innings, he’ll get you 4 innings. if you need 6 innings, he’ll get you 4 innings
In the pros he’s more suited to be a bullpen arm, nothing wrong with that
Yeah losing Taillon really hurt us. We need that 5th guy bad. I don’t think it’s going to be a blockbuster guy, but they’ll definitely get somebody better than Brown.
Kid’s lost it, hope he can figure it out.
If he had 1 more decent pitch he would be fine as a number 4/5 pitcher
We need a starting pitcher 100x more than we need a third baseman! <Drops mic. Walks away. Not listening to any counter arguments. >
Get him a third pitch and it could. But that’s more of an off-season thing I’d say.
Work on another pitch or join the bullpen. Just too easy to sit on one of the pitches.
The Brewers will be in first place after tonight and will not be looking back.. Cubs will just need to maintain the 4 seed for homefiled during the wild card round.
The starting rotation/bullpen was always going to be this Cubs team’s downfall. To be honest I’m surprised they made it this far. 3 good starters 1 mediocre one 1 bum and then an average to below average bullpen is not going to get it done in the long haul of a season regardless of how great the offense is.
From dreams of being a starter to suggestions of a bullpen role, the fanbase has thoughts.
Let me start by saying Ben Brown’s stuff has always impressed me. When he’s on, his pitches look elite…. With that being said a starter with 2 pitches, who is young and struggles with control isn’t the answer during a pennant run. I remember some sports writers saying earlier on in his prospect ratings talking about how he could be a great end game pitcher (setup maybe even closer one day).
Unless a trade is incredible (like a longtime front rotation starter….) I’d love to see him stashed for now (low level relief or AAA) and turn him into a late game reliever over next year or so. Just my two cents. Time to root for Mariners l!
Chill. He’s not ready now, but he might pan out.
The Ben Brown experiment is over.
I think he would be a great closer.
Dude has damn near a 7 ERA and fans still think he’s inches away from being a frontline rotation piece. Like how delusional are people actually?
I think this was a showcse dor a trade. Oops.
Chris Paddack syndrome
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