Jack Cust

[BigSlick]

Jack Cust is my hero.

 

I'm pretty happy the A's have finally found some offense of some sort. With Swisher, Cust, Johnson and Travis Buck, they'll be able to put up a fight in the West. (assuming Harden comes back in some way shape or form)

[TruffleShuffle]

homer #11 today... sporting a 268/412/590 line now (1.002 OPS), with a fun 31 BB/52 K ratio in 41 games. Glad the A's let him work through his slump... Cubs probably would've farmed him out after a bad week.

[radarluv1]

i picked him up in fantasy this week. how he was even available in a 12 team mixed league i dont know. hope he keeps hitting bombs.

[jjgman21]

homer #11 today... sporting a 268/412/590 line now (1.002 OPS), with a fun 31 BB/52 K ratio in 41 games. Glad the A's let him work through his slump... Cubs probably would've farmed him out after a bad week.

 

hilarious. if that was a slump, then there's a chance Jacque breaks out of it any day. Cust goes 7/52, 2 2B, 8/24 bb/k ratio for a month and noone talks about him. he lights up the NLs worst pitching staff, then gets a couple dingers over the following week, and he's back to hero status.

 

 

Cubs definitely would have farmed him out considering he proved today he's incapable of fielding and throwing the baseball and the Cubs play in the National League.

[TruffleShuffle]

homer #11 today... sporting a 268/412/590 line now (1.002 OPS), with a fun 31 BB/52 K ratio in 41 games. Glad the A's let him work through his slump... Cubs probably would've farmed him out after a bad week.

 

hilarious. if that was a slump, then there's a chance Jacque breaks out of it any day. Cust goes 7/52, 2 2B, 8/24 bb/k ratio for a month and noone talks about him. he lights up the NLs worst pitching staff, then gets a couple dingers over the following week, and he's back to hero status.

 

 

Cubs definitely would have farmed him out considering he proved today he's incapable of fielding and throwing the baseball and the Cubs play in the National League.

 

 

.412 OBP and 1.002 OBP, you're right, he sucks.

[jjgman21]

homer #11 today... sporting a 268/412/590 line now (1.002 OPS), with a fun 31 BB/52 K ratio in 41 games. Glad the A's let him work through his slump... Cubs probably would've farmed him out after a bad week.

 

hilarious. if that was a slump, then there's a chance Jacque breaks out of it any day. Cust goes 7/52, 2 2B, 8/24 bb/k ratio for a month and noone talks about him. he lights up the NLs worst pitching staff, then gets a couple dingers over the following week, and he's back to hero status.

 

 

Cubs definitely would have farmed him out considering he proved today he's incapable of fielding and throwing the baseball and the Cubs play in the National League.

 

 

.412 OBP and 1.002 OBP, you're right, he sucks.

 

my comment was more about fair weather fandom then Jack Cust.

[Mephistopheles]

homer #11 today... sporting a 268/412/590 line now (1.002 OPS), with a fun 31 BB/52 K ratio in 41 games. Glad the A's let him work through his slump... Cubs probably would've farmed him out after a bad week.

 

hilarious. if that was a slump, then there's a chance Jacque breaks out of it any day. Cust goes 7/52, 2 2B, 8/24 bb/k ratio for a month and noone talks about him. he lights up the NLs worst pitching staff, then gets a couple dingers over the following week, and he's back to hero status.

 

He went through a slump, and did fine. You can cut up the best offensive season of the last fifty years (quite possibly ever) and find a stretch of 50 PAs where he hit .162. Looking for streaks in a gamelog is a dangerous thing.

[jjgman21]

homer #11 today... sporting a 268/412/590 line now (1.002 OPS), with a fun 31 BB/52 K ratio in 41 games. Glad the A's let him work through his slump... Cubs probably would've farmed him out after a bad week.

 

hilarious. if that was a slump, then there's a chance Jacque breaks out of it any day. Cust goes 7/52, 2 2B, 8/24 bb/k ratio for a month and noone talks about him. he lights up the NLs worst pitching staff, then gets a couple dingers over the following week, and he's back to hero status.

 

He went through a slump, and did fine. You can cut up the best offensive season of the last fifty years (quite possibly ever) and find a stretch of 50 PAs where he hit .162. Looking for streaks in a gamelog is a dangerous thing.

 

I could also look at last year and marvel at the April Chris Shelton had. If I were a Tiger fan, I might even have declared his slump over on May 23, or on June 18, or on July 8, but I would have been wrong.

 

if I don't look for streaks in gamelogs, where exactly would I look for them? and I'm pretty sure you are wrong about the best years claim you make. while I'm sure there were a few such streaks in a few such years, I'm sure it is far from the norm. just picking a random one, I see Mike Schmidt had no such streak in 1981 despite having a month off in the middle of the season. you think we could find one of the top 50 seasons in the past 50 yeasrs where the player went nearly a calendar month without a dinger?

 

it's also real tidy characterizing this as "50 PAs." if he could catch and throw the baseball, or not have horrific slumps?, maybe he gets more than 50 PAs (actually it was 60 btw, but shhhh, that makes the slump look even worse) in three weeks of baseball games.

[Mephistopheles]

Actually we can expand the Cust sample size to about 3k PAs in AAA. I'll shove them down your throat if you want me to. They do matter.

[jjgman21]

Actually we can expand the Cust sample size to about 3k PAs in AAA. I'll shove them down your throat if you want me to. They do matter.

 

as long as I get Jason Dubois's AAA career for dessert.

[TruffleShuffle]

Actually we can expand the Cust sample size to about 3k PAs in AAA. I'll shove them down your throat if you want me to. They do matter.

 

as long as I get Jason Dubois's AAA career for dessert.

 

not even close to being a good comparison

[jjgman21]

Actually we can expand the Cust sample size to about 3k PAs in AAA. I'll shove them down your throat if you want me to. They do matter.

 

as long as I get Jason Dubois's AAA career for dessert.

 

not even close to being a good comparison

 

I know, Cust took 6 years in AAA before he dominated it like Dubois did in his first year.

 

 

look, Cust has had a great minor league career and an incredible start to this year. I have no idea why he was never given a better shot (other than spending most of his career in NL systems and lacking the abilities to catch and throw the ball).

 

all I am saying is it's lame to declare him the second coming, then the thread making such declarations comes to an abrupt end when he goes into a month long skid, only to be revived when he has a bit of a hot streak. not only that, but using a tiny sample size to declare the month long skid an aberration, especially when as recently as 2004 around the age when a player should be entering his prime, he had a whopping 791 OPS at AAA, followed by a year of 840 OPS.

 

walk rate, fantastic. great year last year at AAA, absolutely. enough evidence to declare him out of his slump and a full year 1.000 OPS player, hardly.

[TruffleShuffle]

Actually we can expand the Cust sample size to about 3k PAs in AAA. I'll shove them down your throat if you want me to. They do matter.

 

as long as I get Jason Dubois's AAA career for dessert.

 

not even close to being a good comparison

 

I know, Cust took 6 years in AAA before he dominated it like Dubois did in his first year.

 

 

look, Cust has had a great minor league career and an incredible start to this year. I have no idea why he was never given a better shot (other than spending most of his career in NL systems and lacking the abilities to catch and throw the ball).

 

all I am saying is it's lame to declare him the second coming, then the thread making such declarations comes to an abrupt end when he goes into a month long skid, only to be revived when he has a bit of a hot streak. not only that, but using a tiny sample size to declare the month long skid an aberration, especially when as recently as 2004 around the age when a player should be entering his prime, he had a whopping 791 OPS at AAA, followed by a year of 840 OPS.

 

walk rate, fantastic. great year last year at AAA, absolutely. enough evidence to declare him out of his slump and a full year 1.000 OPS player, hardly.

 

yeah, because clearly in making this thread i was declaring him the next albert pujols

[TruffleShuffle]

all I am saying is it's lame to declare him the second coming, then the thread making such declarations comes to an abrupt end when he goes into a long skid, only to be revived when he has a bit of a hot streak.

 

I don't know what you expect. Should I have been bumping the thread every time he went 0-4 with three K's? I was a Jack Cust fan all along; this shouldn't be a surprise given my rants on this site about plate discipline and the Cubs' lack of it. You can compare him to Jason Dubois all you want, but their minor league K/BB ratios are wildly different, and PECOTA suggests a much more successful big league player in Cust.

 

 

not only that, but using a tiny sample size to declare the month long skid an aberration, especially when as recently as 2004 around the age when a player should be entering his prime, he had a whopping 791 OPS at AAA, followed by a year of 840 OPS.

 

okay, then is it more okay to use the small sample size when you know that his performance in 2004 and 2005 was affected by significant problems in his wrists caused by carpal tunnel syndrome? Or when you know that he had surgery to correct the problem in the offseason of 2005, after which point he promptly returned to destroying minor league pitching?

[TruffleShuffle]

Homer #13 for Jack. He's hit a home run on a beastly 43% of his fly balls, leads the team with 8.5 RC/27. For a AAAA player, he's made quite an impact.

[TruffleShuffle]

Fun fact - of all players with 150 PAs this season, a grand total of three (A-Rod, Magglio, Bonds) have a higher OPS than Cust. Good times.

[TruffleShuffle]

15th homer last night; he's 8th in the league with 8.48 RC/27. And he's now #1 among all A's players with a 20.4 VORP. Not bad for a guy who spent the first month of the season in the Padres' minor league system.