Howie Kendrick sent down?

[Oscar Zamora]

Did I see that the Angels recently sent down second baseman Howard Kendrick to Triple A? Didn't he have a pretty good season for them last year? I doubt that the Halos are about to give up on him...but if he were available. What do you think it would cost the Cubs to get him?

[17 Seconds]

i wouldn't be interested anyways.

[A-Cal]

very similar to hermida...lots of potential

 

i would be shocked if the angels were willing to part with him though

[17 Seconds]

i just don't think he's that good. he has horrible patience, doesn't really hit for power (he showed some pop in the minors at times but only has 16 home runs in almost 1200 major league at-bats), and isn't a big base stealer.

 

so far in his major league career he's been juan pierre with less speed and a little more power. i think he's going to rely on hitting for crazy average if he wants to be anything more than like a .750 OPS guy.... unless he starts hitting for more power.

 

he's not a bad player or anything... he has good minor league numbers. the problem is he'd cost a lot... wayyyy more than he's worth imo

 

i just would like hendry to try and stay away from guys with horrible disicipline. the organization has gotten a lot more OBP friendly over the past couple years and i don't want to start sliding back the other way

[badnews]

Okay... not sure why we're pretending this is 2006... he'll be 26 in a month, his stock is not even close to what it once was. I don't much care for his game. He strikes out too much to be the perennial .330 hitter people predicted. He's not a good defender. His potential clock is running down, just like Jeff Mathis, Dallas MacPherson, Casey Kotchman's, etc. did.

 

If we wait a year and a half we can have him for free.

[dew1679666265]

Okay... not sure why we're pretending this is 2006... he'll be 26 in a month, his stock is not even close to what it once was. I don't much care for his game. He strikes out too much to be the perennial .330 hitter people predicted. He's not a good defender. His potential clock is running down, just like Jeff Mathis, Dallas MacPherson, Casey Kotchman's, etc. did.

 

If we wait a year and a half we can have him for free.

 

You could also say if he's going to break out, this year or next would be the time he'd do it, since he's about to enter his prime years.

 

Not advocating acquiring him, just throwing that out there.

[imb]

LETS GET BRANDON WOOD YEAH

[Drew Doughty]

LETS GET BRANDON WOOD YEAH

 

we got wood

 

lol get it???

[squally1313]

The thing about Kendrick is you have to decide what kind of BABIP is sustainable for him as he enters his prime years. Obviously since he's never shown much ability to take a walk, his OBP is going to be largely dependent on batting average. Coming into this year he had averages of .285, .322, and .306 the last three years, with corresponding BABIPs of .324, .381, and .357. This year his average is down to .231, with a BABIP of .269, far below his career average. To be fair, his LD% has fallen a lot, from 19% and 17% the last two years to 13% now. If he can get that back up to where it's been the past couple years, you can definitely expect his average to rise a little bit.

 

Combine that with above average defense at second base, and it's more a matter of much it would take to get him, because he would definitely be an upgrade over Miles. And even though he hits lefties and righties about the same (740ish OPS, which obviously isn't great, but again...would be an upgrade), his numbers against lefties are significantly better than Fontenot's so we'd be upgrading the platoon at second when Ramirez comes back.

 

Again, not saying this is the difference maker, but we've already pretty much established that we're more or less stuck with our offense as is, and minor improvements like this are the types of moves we should be focusing on.

[wrigley23]

for the "more plate discipline" crowd, the Brett Jackson pick won't do much for you.

[imb]

for the "more plate discipline" crowd, the Brett Jackson pick won't do much for you.

 

oh really what a novel thought please tell me more about this "brett jackson"

 

i wish there was a forum where we could have discussed "brett jackson" before, during and after the draft. oh well, dare to dream i guess.

[badnews]

for the "more plate discipline" crowd, the Brett Jackson pick won't do much for you.

 

oh really what a novel thought please tell me more about this "brett jackson"

 

i wish there was a forum where we could have discussed "brett jackson" before, during and after the draft. oh well, dare to dream i guess.

 

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