The Cubs Chronicle

Dusty Baker has named Juan Cruz the starting pitcher in today’s game over Shawn Estes. Here’s how the two compare as starters this year:

Player    IP      H      BB      K       ERA      SNPct
Cruz      24      21      7      23      3.00      .636
Estes    142.2   177     79      98      6.06      .313

Tough choice.

Baseball Prospectus’s Dayn Perry named Estes (subscription req’d) to his All-Disappointment Team on Thursday. As much as we could have expected Estes to be bad this year, there was little reason to believe he would be this bad. It has been clear that he has been this bad for awhile now, though. It’s nice to see Baker finally take the ball away from him.

On another note, updating the strikeout record quest, with 15 games remaining, Cubs pitchers need 75 more K’s to break the all-time record of 1344, set by the 2001 Cubs.