Just a Quick Note

Haven't been feeling well lately and I wanted to do a team report post, so instead I will just mention that the Cubs currently rank #1 in SO's for the pitching staff.

That sounds wonderfull and is probably impressive considering Prior is out. But on the bad side our team is dead last in issuing the most walks in baseball to date.

Currently in 139 innings our pitching staff has walked 73 batters and struck out 126.

By contrast the Florida Marlins staff ranks 2nd in SO's with 116, but have issued only 39 walks to rank #3 on the list.

Strikeouts are all fine and dandy but the Cubs staff as a whole is walking an alarmingly high rate of batters.

Yeah last year the Cubs ranked 1st in strikeouts and next to last in walks. At the Cubs current pace they would walk 759 batters. Thats about 142 more than last year.

This staff needs to get its act together because you cant be walking this many batters against Houston and St. Louis.