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It's past time for the Cubs to admit that Cool Kyle Hendricks is beyond cooked. He just doesn't have it anymore, and the Cubs can't keep wasting every fifth game with him starting.
 
It's past time for the Cubs to admit that Cool Kyle Hendricks is beyond cooked. He just doesn't have it anymore, and the Cubs can't keep wasting every fifth game with him starting.
I'd say try him as a reliever for a few games, see if he's got enough for 1-2 innings at a time from the BP. We got BP troubles on top of hitting troubles. Not to mention Justin Steele's last 2 starts have been duds.......against the effin' Pierats.

Shota Imanaga just threw another 7 inning gem, with zero run support.

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I just don't think Hendricks' stuff can work out of the pen. He's a soft tosser who relies on soft contact, and because he can't disguise his pitches anymore, batters can clearly tell exactly what's coming when he starts his delivery. He's just toast.
 
I just don't think Hendricks' stuff can work out of the pen. He's a soft tosser who relies on soft contact, and because he can't disguise his pitches anymore, batters can clearly tell exactly what's coming when he starts his delivery. He's just toast.
Wasn't Paul Assenmacher a pretty soft thrower? Though maybe he had a better movement on his pitches than Hendricks does now.
 
Wasn't Paul Assenmacher a pretty soft thrower? Though maybe he had a better movement on his pitches than Hendricks does now.

Sure, but he also last pitched 25 years ago. The game is played differently nowadays.

Guys like Assenmacher and Jamie Moyer would get tarred and feathered in today's game.
 
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Per Craig Counsell, Kyle Hendricks is being moved to the bullpen to "get him back on track," and Thursday's game, which Hendricks was scheduled to start, will instead be a bullpen game.

The idea of bringing Cool Kyle in as a reliever with men on base strikes me as utterly insane.
 
I just don't think Hendricks' stuff can work out of the pen. He's a soft tosser who relies on soft contact, and because he can't disguise his pitches anymore, batters can clearly tell exactly what's coming when he starts his delivery. He's just toast.
They'll be using him to eat innings. Lets hope he doesn't barf them up.
 
They'll be using him to eat innings. Lets hope he doesn't barf them up.

Between Ben Brown and Wesneski, they have enough live arms to even go to a six-man rotation for a while without flexing the bullpen too badly.

I just think that Hendricks is cooked. He has lived on his command for his entire career, and his pitches have no movement. It's not just that he's missing, he's missing badly. It's way past time to designate him for assignment, see if he'll accept a demotion to Iowa, and if not then just give him his outright release.
 
Between Ben Brown and Wesneski, they have enough live arms to even go to a six-man rotation for a while without flexing the bullpen too badly.

I just think that Hendricks is cooked. He has lived on his command for his entire career, and his pitches have no movement. It's not just that he's missing, he's missing badly. It's way past time to designate him for assignment, see if he'll accept a demotion to Iowa, and if not then just give him his outright release.
Time to see if he can get enough control to be effective in the occasional situational spot. He would have been a better BP fit before the 3 batter minimum BS.
 
Time to see if he can get enough control to be effective in the occasional situational spot. He would have been a better BP fit before the 3 batter minimum BS.

At this point, if they aren't going to cut him--I guess it'd be a bad look to axe him right before he makes ten years of service time and his full pension vests--then make him an opener limited to ~50 pitches and don't let him face anyone twice.
 
Between Ben Brown and Wesneski, they have enough live arms to even go to a six-man rotation for a while without flexing the bullpen too badly.

I just think that Hendricks is cooked. He has lived on his command for his entire career, and his pitches have no movement. It's not just that he's missing, he's missing badly. It's way past time to designate him for assignment, see if he'll accept a demotion to Iowa, and if not then just give him his outright release.
I imagine out of respect they'll keep him on to make his 10 years service time for the pension to be honest. Iowa? I can't imagine that.
 
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