Addison Russell is awesome and deserves a thread

[KrisBryantisaBeast]

This makes me a little nervous because I was hoping to see him play for Iowa when they come to Round Rock on like June 20th or something like that. I hope it takes him awhile to learn how to play second base effectively so he's still around when I go to the game!

Yeah, that's not going to happen, and you shouldn't want it to happen. The sooner Russell is up here and Jonathan Herrera isn't getting starters' ABs, the more games the Cubs will likely win.

 

I'm not sorry that I am selfish like that.

[Guest]

C - 2 headed monster with a papier mache third head that gets smashed with ease at every opportunity

 

fixd

 

DID YOU KNOW: Ross leads Cubs catchers with a .370 wOBA, 2nd only to Bryant for players with 10+ PA.

 

entirely on the back of intentional walks and unintentional intentional walks, don't care at all

 

You'd rather have had him expand the zone and ground out/pop-up weakly?

 

Ross was my least favorite move of the offseason, and I really hope they stop using him as Lester's caddy the moment that Castillo is gone. But I think some are so predisposed to hate him that the fact that he's been fine so far is being cast aside as irrelevant.

[SouthSideRyan]

C - 2 headed monster with a papier mache third head that gets smashed with ease at every opportunity

 

fixd

 

DID YOU KNOW: Ross leads Cubs catchers with a .370 wOBA, 2nd only to Bryant for players with 10+ PA.

 

He's got nothing on Jason Hammel

[jersey cubs fan]

You'd rather have had him expand the zone and ground out/pop-up weakly?

 

Ross was my least favorite move of the offseason, and I really hope they stop using him as Lester's caddy the moment that Castillo is gone. But I think some are so predisposed to hate him that the fact that he's been fine so far is being cast aside as irrelevant.

 

not being impressed by his gifted walks is not the same as wishing he's swing away more often.

[sneakypower]

probably the best prospect in baseball now

Not until Bryant loses prospect status.

to be perfectly clear, i don't consider players who are up in the majors to stay prospects anymore, so Bryant/Pederson/Soler aren't considered

[jersey cubs fan]

sneaky makes his own rules

[SouthSideRyan]

C - 2 headed monster with a papier mache third head that gets smashed with ease at every opportunity

 

fixd

 

DID YOU KNOW: Ross leads Cubs catchers with a .370 wOBA, 2nd only to Bryant for players with 10+ PA.

 

entirely on the back of intentional walks and unintentional intentional walks, don't care at all

 

You'd rather have had him expand the zone and ground out/pop-up weakly?

 

Ross was my least favorite move of the offseason, and I really hope they stop using him as Lester's caddy the moment that Castillo is gone. But I think some are so predisposed to hate him that the fact that he's been fine so far is being cast aside as irrelevant.

 

I think it's been cast aside as irrelevant because it's 10 PAs

[Andy]

C - 2 headed monster with a papier mache third head that gets smashed with ease at every opportunity

 

fixd

 

DID YOU KNOW: Ross leads Cubs catchers with a .370 wOBA, 2nd only to Bryant for players with 10+ PA.

 

entirely on the back of intentional walks and unintentional intentional walks, don't care at all

 

You'd rather have had him expand the zone and ground out/pop-up weakly?

 

Ross was my least favorite move of the offseason, and I really hope they stop using him as Lester's caddy the moment that Castillo is gone. But I think some are so predisposed to hate him that the fact that he's been fine so far is being cast aside as irrelevant.

Any chance of that? I get the impression Ross is taking starts from Montero right now, not Castillo, and don't see any reason that would stop - if anything, him catching Lester after Castillo is gone seems more likely to me.

[SouthSideRyan]

I guess the thought it is Castillo won't be around to start against lefties in non-Lester starts.

[Guest]

Any chance of that? I get the impression Ross is taking starts from Montero right now, not Castillo, and don't see any reason that would stop - if anything, him catching Lester after Castillo is gone seems more likely to me.

 

The idea/hope would be that he'd move into a more traditional backup C/vs. lhp side of a platoon if castillo is gone to fill those roles and give montero rest against what would be his bad matchups.

 

It's a stretch IMO that doing this would also necessarily lead to him not getting the Lester starts too, though.

[Guest]

probably the best prospect in baseball now

Have you seen what Correa is doing this year? It's awfully close.

[sneakypower]

probably the best prospect in baseball now

Have you seen what Correa is doing this year? It's awfully close.

the .444 BABIP? i'll give him more respect when he starts showing more power

[abuck1220]

C - 2 headed monster with a papier mache third head that gets smashed with ease at every opportunity

 

fixd

 

DID YOU KNOW: Ross leads Cubs catchers with a .370 wOBA, 2nd only to Bryant for players with 10+ PA.

 

oh come on

[Guest]

I think it's been cast aside as irrelevant because it's 10 PAs

 

No one's saying it's predictive, but making Ross a punching bag without actually playing poorly yet makes even less sense.

[UMFan83]

This makes me a little nervous because I was hoping to see him play for Iowa when they come to Round Rock on like June 20th or something like that. I hope it takes him awhile to learn how to play second base effectively so he's still around when I go to the game!

Yeah, that's not going to happen, and you shouldn't want it to happen. The sooner Russell is up here and Jonathan Herrera isn't getting starters' ABs, the more games the Cubs will likely win.

 

I'm not sorry that I am selfish like that.

 

Selfish? If you are a Cubs fan, its not selfish its dumb to want to hurt the team you cheer for so that you can watch a guy play in a relatively meaningless game 2 months from now.

[jersey cubs fan]

I think it's been cast aside as irrelevant because it's 10 PAs

 

No one's saying it's predictive, but making Ross a punching bag without actually playing poorly yet makes even less sense.

That's a lot like Dusty's insistence on seeing established bad players actually play poorly for him before determining they were not good.

 

It makes more sense to criticize his presence on the roster based on his resume than shoosh the criticism based on a couple walks in a handful of PA.

[Guest]

probably the best prospect in baseball now

Have you seen what Correa is doing this year? It's awfully close.

the .444 BABIP? i'll give him more respect when he starts showing more power

The .297 IsoP doesn't do it for you?

[Guest]

This makes me a little nervous because I was hoping to see him play for Iowa when they come to Round Rock on like June 20th or something like that. I hope it takes him awhile to learn how to play second base effectively so he's still around when I go to the game!

Yeah, that's not going to happen, and you shouldn't want it to happen. The sooner Russell is up here and Jonathan Herrera isn't getting starters' ABs, the more games the Cubs will likely win.

 

I'm not sorry that I am selfish like that.

 

Selfish? If you are a Cubs fan, its not selfish its dumb to want to hurt the team you cheer for so that you can watch a guy play in a relatively meaningless game 2 months from now.

 

not if he's more a fan of watching the iowa cubs than the actual cubs for some reason

[abuck1220]

I think it's been cast aside as irrelevant because it's 10 PAs

 

No one's saying it's predictive, but making Ross a punching bag without actually playing poorly yet makes even less sense.

 

for one, I'd say he is playing poorly, as his lester magic hasn't worked and the only "good" he's done at the plate has been being walked intentionally.

 

secondly, my biggest issue with him is how his presence leaves the cubs with a four man bench, half of which are catchers.

[SouthSideRyan]

I think it's been cast aside as irrelevant because it's 10 PAs

 

No one's saying it's predictive, but making Ross a punching bag without actually playing poorly yet makes even less sense.

 

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[Guest]

brb digging up TT lahair hate posts from early 2012

[ctcf]

Am I the only one that actually wouldn't mind Addy getting a month or two more's worth of time in at AAA?

[Tracer Bullet]

I hope this leads to some TT rage posts, which are the only thing I'm looking forward to more than Addison Russell

[Guest]

Ideally, I'd like to see him draw more walks than Almora before getting the call.

[ctcf]

Ideally, I'd like to see him draw more walks than Almora before getting the call.

 

That would be nice. Also OPSing over .800 for a while would be nice too.