Javy?

[Guest]

Back to the original topic, it looks like Javy's sister's funeral/burial, so I'm guessing we might know something soon enough.

 

Actually I don't know that to be true...just what I can gather from what I happened to see on Instagram.

[Banedon]

Back to the original topic, it looks like Javy's sister's funeral/burial, so I'm guessing we might know something soon enough.

 

Actually I don't know that to be true...just what I can gather from what I happened to see on Instagram.

 

I think you might've missed some words there.

[Guest]

Back to the original topic, it looks like Javy's sister's funeral/burial, so I'm guessing we might know something soon enough.

 

Actually I don't know that to be true...just what I can gather from what I happened to see on Instagram.

 

I think you might've missed some words there.

 

jesus wtf

 

was yesterday. he posted on instagram yesterday.

[Brian]

He's reporting to Mesa today

[Cubswin11]

He's reporting to Mesa today

Good to hear, hopefully he's in as good a spot mentally as one can be in his spot and I think it's probably best he spends some time there to work on things.

[d_money]

He's reporting to Mesa today

Good to hear, hopefully he's in as good a spot mentally as one can be in his spot and I think it's probably best he spends some time there to work on things.

"Things" being contact rate hopefully

[Cubswin11]

He's reporting to Mesa today

Good to hear, hopefully he's in as good a spot mentally as one can be in his spot and I think it's probably best he spends some time there to work on things.

"Things" being contact rate hopefully

Looking at the game thread today, hopefully he's focusing on velocity off the bat first. Contact rate comes second

[Guest]

http://chicagocubsonline.com/archives/2015/04/jason-mcleod-talks-cubs-prospects-and-the-draft-on-mlb-network-radio.php#.VT8b9yFViko

 

On Javier Baez, the Cubs plan for him going forward and what he has to work on once he returns to Iowa

“Obviously it was a learning experience for him last year, throughout the whole year. He had his struggles at Triple-A. Certainly showed some flashes of brilliance like we’ve seen in the past and then his Major League experience was somewhat of the same. We all know what the strikeouts were. He showed some very good things with the bat speed and the power. The one thing and Joe [Maddon] talked a lot about it in Spring Training, the defense and the other things that he brings to the game every day that never wavered. He played at an extremely high level defensively and on the base paths. This whole off-season there was a lot of discussion with him about the approach. He went down to Puerto Rico and went in to Spring Training and the numbers weren’t there for Javy, but the work ethic was. And then this unfortunately happened with his sister passing away. He’s just had a lot on his mind, certainly both on and off the field. Right now he’s back in extended Spring Training. He will get into a couple of extended games this week and we expect him to join our Triple-A club at the end of the week. It’s been a pretty trying time for him and certainly we, as an organization, are here to support him and continue to work with him on the on-field things as well as off-field stuff. More than anything he has been working his tail off, the reports have come back very good and we’re just looking forward to seeing him between the lines again, enjoying his teammates in Iowa and starting to play again.”

 

On the main things the Cubs are talking to Javier Baez about when it comes to his development

“I think more than anything it’s just simplifying it and understanding the ability that he has and the bat speed that he has and the fact that this is a player who can the ball out to any part of the park with ease and that it doesn’t have to be 550-foot home runs that 400-foot home runs count, too. It’s just slowing things down when he gets into the box because his work ethic, like I said, is tremendous and he can do anything you ask him to do in BP [batting practice] in terms of how high the leg kick might be or the effort level in the swing. When the game starts that motor gets going a little higher at the plate, you don’t see it in the field, he really slows the game down defensively, on the base paths, all of that. But at the plate it starts, the motor gets revved up a little bit and the effort level is high and then you see some of those big, wild swings. That’s really it, it’s the mindset in the batter’s box, slow things down and understand how good he is and that he can take any pitch in any part of the zone and hit hard to all fields.”

[Boris]

I really want Javier to be good. Icing on an already delicious cake.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

would be completely unfair if he was

[SouthSideRyan]

would be completely unfair if he was

 

Especially if it moved Kris Bryant to CF

[Guest]

would be completely unfair if he was

 

Especially if it moved Kris Bryant to CF

 

Stop it's too exciting

[Brian]

Fast forward two years, the NL has adopted the DH and magically nobody busts

 

1B - Rizzo

2B - Russell

SS - Castro

3B - Baez

C - Schwarber

RF - Soler

CF - Bryant

LF - Almora/McKinney/big free agent signing

DH - Vogelbach

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[JennieGarthAlgar]

Why in god's name would Bryant be in center and Almora in left?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Why in god's name would Bryant be in center and Almora in left?

 

A combination of the standard prospect defense overhype and repeated injuries leave Almora with roughly the defensive abilities of Matt Stairs.

[Guest]

Why in god's name would Bryant be in center and Almora in left?

 

A combination of the standard prospect defense overhype and repeated injuries leave Almora with roughly the defensive abilities of Matt Stairs.

 

in which case we are better off putting dan vogelbach in LF

 

and i realize what i'm saying there

[minnesotacubsfan]

Why in god's name would Bryant be in center and Almora in left?

 

A combination of the standard prospect defense overhype and repeated injuries leave Almora with roughly the defensive abilities of Matt Stairs.

 

that would be Vogelbach

[Brian]

Isn't the story that Kris said he's more comfortable in center? that's the reason I put him there in that scenario. Wherever he wants to play he can play.

[sontensei]

Fast forward two years, the NL has adopted the DH and magically nobody busts

 

1B - Rizzo

2B - Russell

SS - Castro

3B - Baez

C - Schwarber

RF - Soler

CF - Bryant

LF - Almora/McKinney/big free agent signing

DH - Vogelbach

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

This combined with a rotation of say

 

Price

Cueto

Lester

Arietta

This years 7th pick (yeah its a strech but yeh cubs have money...)

 

holy fck what if they dipped and signed both next offseason? whats that rotation.

 

Baez, if he can learn to take some pitches and get some hits like bryant deep in the count (rbi singles) he could be like Nolan Arenado. he has the D and speed to be a webgem monster at 3b

[Cubbie Swagger]

Fast forward two years, the NL has adopted the DH and magically nobody busts

 

1B - Rizzo

2B - Russell

SS - Castro

3B - Baez

C - Schwarber

RF - Soler

CF - Bryant

LF - Almora/McKinney/big free agent signing

DH - Vogelbach

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Why would they put Baez at 3rd and Russell at 2nd? I would have guessed it would be the other way around.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Why would they put Baez at 3rd and Russell at 2nd? I would have guessed it would be the other way around.

In a world where "magically nobody busts", they can all take turns playing a different position every inning.

[Andy]

Fast forward two years, the NL has adopted the DH and magically nobody busts

 

1B - Rizzo

2B - Russell

SS - Castro

3B - Baez

C - Schwarber

RF - Soler

CF - Bryant

LF - Almora/McKinney/big free agent signing

DH - Vogelbach

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

This combined with a rotation of say

 

Price

Cueto

Lester

Arietta

This years 7th pick (yeah its a strech but yeh cubs have money...)

 

holy fck what if they dipped and signed both next offseason? whats that rotation.

 

Baez, if he can learn to take some pitches and get some hits like bryant deep in the count (rbi singles) he could be like Nolan Arenado. he has the D and speed to be a webgem monster at 3b

No. No, no, no. Take the best college bat and never draft a pitcher high ever.

[SouthSideRyan]

This year's 7th pick should slot in nicely with 2013's 2nd pick(hopefully Appel gets there.) and 2014's #4 pick for a stud rotation.

[JennieGarthAlgar]

This year's 7th pick should slot in nicely with 2013's 2nd pick(hopefully Appel gets there.) and 2014's #4 pick for a stud rotation.

 

Can you explain to me what you mean by all of this?

[sontensei]

Fast forward two years, the NL has adopted the DH and magically nobody busts

 

1B - Rizzo

2B - Russell

SS - Castro

3B - Baez

C - Schwarber

RF - Soler

CF - Bryant

LF - Almora/McKinney/big free agent signing

DH - Vogelbach

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

This combined with a rotation of say

 

Price

Cueto

Lester

Arietta

This years 7th pick (yeah its a strech but yeh cubs have money...)

 

holy fck what if they dipped and signed both next offseason? whats that rotation.

 

Baez, if he can learn to take some pitches and get some hits like bryant deep in the count (rbi singles) he could be like Nolan Arenado. he has the D and speed to be a webgem monster at 3b

No. No, no, no. Take the best college bat and never draft a pitcher high ever.

 

Its reported that the college top end prospect pool is pretty thin this year... I think i read it on a BA article..