Kevin Fishbane
speaker
8,130 appearances
31 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 18 Sep
Kevin Fishbane’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We start with that by simply saying the Cubs are seeing a lot more breaking balls right now isn't good enough without context.
They're seeing them a lot.
Last April, Chicago batters saw breaking balls on 28% of pitches.
This April, it's 32%.
And in May, it was 37%.
Now, Mark, this to me speaks to the concept of when you have similar hitters,
And when we talk about the idea of making contact but having modest pop, then it stands to reason that the scouting reports are going to start to repeat themselves.
That what you're seeing out of pitchers is going to have to repeat itself.
It's up to the pitcher to still make the pitch.
You can't hang a curveball.
You know, your breaking ball has to be on point.
You have to hit your spots.
But when you do, it seems like you can almost ensure that this lineup will struggle and
The good news, I can give you the bright side of this as we go on in this article, is that he points out that the April Cubs, remember the April Cubs?
The April Cubs, as he writes.
Are you meaning the 20 and 3 Cubs?
Yeah, the one that was capable of firing off a what?
A 10-game winning streak or two.
So he does write here at the end of the article, the April Cubs were actually quite good against breaking balls, rating fifth in run value, plus nine against them.
I like calling them April Cubs, by the way.
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