Quote Originally Posted by Hockey Guy View Post
Quote Originally Posted by BeerAndPoker View Post
Cueto is a goat at pitching to NL teams but wow what a difference coming over to throw to AL hitters was for him.

Baseball is a long grind people. The Cubs are a very good team regardless of this slide it's just they aren't going to be winning 105 to 110 games like people thought was possible early on.
You must have missed the fact that Cueto was tipping his pitches in the AL by using hand signals to his catcher to call the game. It took AL hitters about 4 & 1/2 seconds to figure this out.

Pretty easy to hit when you know exactly what's coming.
For those who didn't know about this: http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb...ve-it-to-them/

I posted this last year in the MLB thread during the World Series & had been happening to varying degrees the whole of his Royals tenure.