Addison Russell is awesome and deserves a thread

[Sammy Sofa]

I just want to pinch his chubby cheeks.

[treebird]

this guy kind of sucks of late.

 

.206/.289/.324 in his last 10 games. last 20 games aren't much prettier.

 

TIME TO GET IT GOING BUDDY

[Cubswin11]

this guy kind of sucks of late.

 

.206/.289/.324 in his last 10 games. last 20 games aren't much prettier.

 

TIME TO GET IT GOING BUDDY

If that's his lowest level he reaches of sucking as a rookie that isn't that bad.

[sneakypower]

this guy kind of sucks of late.

 

.206/.289/.324 in his last 10 games. last 20 games aren't much prettier.

 

TIME TO GET IT GOING BUDDY

since this post

 

.314/.415/.457 (19.5% K) in his last 11 games

 

http://24.media.tumblr.com/45ad8acbb0dd140c0c3d13b503e80615/tumblr_mk70v8snXv1qzqbm3o2_500.gif

[SouthSideRyan]

this guy kind of sucks of late.

 

.206/.289/.324 in his last 10 games. last 20 games aren't much prettier.

 

TIME TO GET IT GOING BUDDY

 

TALK MORE [expletive]

[Tracer Bullet]

Hey tree, got any comments to make about my terrible lottery winning percentage?

[treebird]

y'all welcome

[Guest]

y'all don't know my struggle

y'all can't match my hustle

[ARCubsFan]

Addison is seriously a wizard with a glove, never seen anyone do what he does with the glove at his age although Correa might be matching it. If Addison lives up to his bat potential, he could be among the league leaders in WAR every year and this makes me happy

[treebird]

this guy kind of sucks of late.

 

.206/.289/.324 in his last 10 games. last 20 games aren't much prettier.

 

TIME TO GET IT GOING BUDDY

since this post

 

.314/.415/.457 (19.5% K) in his last 11 games

 

http://24.media.tumblr.com/45ad8acbb0dd140c0c3d13b503e80615/tumblr_mk70v8snXv1qzqbm3o2_500.gif

 

since this post

 

.000/.000/.000 (66.7% K)

 

thanks for undoing my good juju

[minnesotacubsfan]

TAKE IT BACK

[Guest]

When is it ok to start worrying about his hitting?

[UMFan83]

When is it ok to start worrying about his hitting?

 

Definitely not when he's still 21 and has played less than 75 career games above AA. He's shown flashes and has too much talent to not succeed imo.

[downsr30]

Russell will probably hit this way the rest of the year. They will let him have his struggles and figure out what he can, but I imagine he plays in a fall league and come next spring training he will have refined a few different things that coaches want him to change to have a better approach. I bet next year we see a much more polished player. While some players come up and excel with the bat and are terrible with the glove but improve over time - others players are the opposite and Russell has excelled with the glove and has been just OK at the plate.

 

 

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[treebird]

When is it ok to start worrying about his hitting?

 

Definitely not when he's still 21 and has played less than 75 career games above AA. He's shown flashes and has too much talent to not succeed imo.

 

long-term or short-term? long-term, i'm still confident he's going to be a very nice player. short-term (aka the rest of this season), i'm worried that one of the spots from which i hoped we'd get solid production has turned into a second castro.

[CubInOK]

Russell's OPS is currently at .664. That's close to what I expected out of him this season.

[ARCubsFan]

The offense will come, his defense is near elite level already at age 21

[Guest]

Tony Andracki ‏@TonyAndracki23 17m17 minutes ago

Addison Russell is hitting .368/.478/.421 (.899 OPS) in the 2nd half so far. #CubsTalk

[Burt Macklin, FBI]

The overall results aren't quite there yet, but the peripherals are really coming around. I expect the hits will start to come soon and he'll have a really nice 2nd half.

 

K%

April (only 29 PA) 48.3%

May 32.1%

June 26.8%

July 22.4%

 

BB%

April 3.4%

May 6.6%

June 9.3%

July 11.8%

[Andy]

The overall results aren't quite there yet, but the peripherals are really coming around. I expect the hits will start to come soon and he'll have a really nice 2nd half.

 

K%

April (only 29 PA) 48.3%

May 32.1%

June 26.8%

July 22.4%

 

BB%

April 3.4%

May 6.6%

June 9.3%

July 11.8%

His adjustments have really been impressive. Plenty of reason for optimism that he will become the 'Barry Larkin' that Beane promised when he sent him over.

[TruffleShuffle]

http://m.cubs.mlb.com/news/article/140670646

 

also, that pitch he homered on yesterday was a good pitch. low and outside fastball and he drove it 400 feet to center. definitely not the kind of pitch you expect a 21 year old middle infielder to do much damage with.

[KingCubsFan]

Another thing keeping his overall numbers down is his surprisingly terrible numbers against LHP. I'd expect those to increase by the end of the year.

[rawaction]

The overall results aren't quite there yet, but the peripherals are really coming around. I expect the hits will start to come soon and he'll have a really nice 2nd half.

 

K%

April (only 29 PA) 48.3%

May 32.1%

June 26.8%

July 22.4%

 

BB%

April 3.4%

May 6.6%

June 9.3%

July 11.8%

 

LD% per month? He seems to be hitting the ball with more authority recently too. Especially to RCF.

[Clem Fandango]

The overall results aren't quite there yet, but the peripherals are really coming around. I expect the hits will start to come soon and he'll have a really nice 2nd half.

 

K%

April (only 29 PA) 48.3%

May 32.1%

June 26.8%

July 22.4%

 

BB%

April 3.4%

May 6.6%

June 9.3%

July 11.8%

 

LD% per month? He seems to be hitting the ball with more authority recently too. Especially to RCF.

 

April (only 7 games): 28.6%

May: 20.0%

June: 20.0%

July: 13.1%

 

Sooooooo yeah he's gotten worse, lol.

[sneakypower]

http://i.imgur.com/5eHRFwj.png

(just 7 G in April, 2 G in August)

 

you do like to see FBs go up, IFFB go down and soft contact go down