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Since 2013:

Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder combined: 4.5 fWAR

Anthony Rizzo: 4.8 fWAR

Good thing Theo didn't make that big splash in his first year. Things would be a lot different.

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Since 2013:

Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder combined: 4.5 fWAR

Anthony Rizzo: 4.8 fWAR

Good thing Theo didn't make that big splash in his first year. Things would be a lot different.

 

And that doesn't even include Rizzo's pretty good 2012 and does include his disappointing 2013.

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Since 2013:

Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder combined: 4.5 fWAR

Anthony Rizzo: 4.8 fWAR

Good thing Theo didn't make that big splash in his first year. Things would be a lot different.

 

And that doesn't even include Rizzo's pretty good 2012 and does include his disappointing 2013.

 

Of course it doesn't include Pujols's good 2012 and Fielder's great one.

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Since 2013:

Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder combined: 4.5 fWAR

Anthony Rizzo: 4.8 fWAR

Good thing Theo didn't make that big splash in his first year. Things would be a lot different.

 

As much as I would have loved the reaction of Cards fans, I had a pretty good idea that signing Pujols would have been a grievous error. At least to the contract it was going to take to get him.

 

I didn't think the wheels would come off for Fielder this quickly, though.

 

Rizzo's not ever going to be 2000's Pujols, but he's almost certainly going to produce more than either of those guys will over the next five years, barring disaster.

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Yes, but there's two sides there. Let's check in with Cashner:

 

 

http://fapress.jasonconnorswebs.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/pitching-mound.jpg

OK, that was reasonably humorous. :D

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Since 2013:

Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder combined: 4.5 fWAR

Anthony Rizzo: 4.8 fWAR

Good thing Theo didn't make that big splash in his first year. Things would be a lot different.

 

And that doesn't even include Rizzo's pretty good 2012 and does include his disappointing 2013.

 

Of course it doesn't include Pujols's good 2012 and Fielder's great one.

 

No, but if you do, he's produced more fWAR than either of them individually (barely, but still).

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Since 2013:

Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder combined: 4.5 fWAR

Anthony Rizzo: 4.8 fWAR

Good thing Theo didn't make that big splash in his first year. Things would be a lot different.

 

And that doesn't even include Rizzo's pretty good 2012 and does include his disappointing 2013.

 

Of course it doesn't include Pujols's good 2012 and Fielder's great one.

 

No, but if you do, he's produced more fWAR than either of them individually (barely, but still).

 

Oh, I don't think anyone disagrees that avoiding them turned out to be the right move(it'd take a lot of twisting to say otherwise). It was just kind of a silly comment implying that Rizzo was being shortchanged on the comparison.

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I wasn't implying Rizzo was being shortchanged on anything. I was just reminding people that Rizzo's results (the peripherals were there) kinda sucked last year.
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Brett did a write up on how much his numbers have jumped since the ASB...

 

Heading into the All-Star break, Rizzo was hitting .275/.381/.499 with a .382 wOBA and a 142 wRC+. These are awesome numbers, and they came in 407 plate appearances – meaning that it’s hard to move the needle at that point with a good game or two.

 

But four games later, Rizzo is hitting .283/.385/.539 with a .398 wOBA and a 154 wRC+. Just four games, and his OPS climbed 44 points, his wOBA climbed 17 points, and his wRC+ climbed 12 points. That’s nutty.

 

Rizzo now has the 9th best wOBA in all of baseball, and the 11th best wRC+.

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Brett did a write up on how much his numbers have jumped since the ASB...

 

Heading into the All-Star break, Rizzo was hitting .275/.381/.499 with a .382 wOBA and a 142 wRC+. These are awesome numbers, and they came in 407 plate appearances – meaning that it’s hard to move the needle at that point with a good game or two.

 

But four games later, Rizzo is hitting .283/.385/.539 with a .398 wOBA and a 154 wRC+. Just four games, and his OPS climbed 44 points, his wOBA climbed 17 points, and his wRC+ climbed 12 points. That’s nutty.

 

Rizzo now has the 9th best wOBA in all of baseball, and the 11th best wRC+.

 

It's obviously all the homers he would have hit during the derby.

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You know how you always see in TV an movies a terminally ill child/young person meeting a baseball player and asking him to hit a home run for him, and then the player dramatically has to hit a home run some how to make the kid happy? And it's super tacky and you're just like "Ugh, this is so cliché!"

 

Rizzo did that for real, which is way more awesome

 

http://www.si.com/mlb/2014/07/23/cubs-anthony-rizzo-home-run-cancer-patient

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You know how you always see in TV an movies a terminally ill child/young person meeting a baseball player and asking him to hit a home run for him, and then the player dramatically has to hit a home run some how to make the kid happy? And it's super tacky and you're just like "Ugh, this is so cliché!"

 

Rizzo did that for real, which is way more awesome

 

http://www.si.com/mlb/2014/07/23/cubs-anthony-rizzo-home-run-cancer-patient

 

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http://i.imgur.com/PLfIG6L.gif

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Why was he pointing at the sky? The kid isn't dead.
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Why was he pointing at the sky? The kid isn't dead.

 

Yeah, I thought the same thing when Len was talking about this last night. I mean, cool...but...odd.

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The kid is 22, Rizzo should have done the universal [expletive] licking sign.
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Unless he was threatening God, like, "see what I can do? You try and take that guy and I'm coming after you," in which case I take back my take back.

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