Addison Russell Coming Up Tomorrow!

[Little Slide Rooter]

My money's on Junior Lake. Not my first choice, not my last choice either, but he's done nothing to work his way back into the future plans. Being a right handed corner OF doesn't help his cause.

[PrimeTime]

Jesse Rogers @ESPNChiCubs

For those asking, Maddon said on the radio (WSCR) he likes Russell batting ninth. At least right now

[Banedon]

Cubs just tweeted the official news. Russell up, Alcantara down.

 

Olt to 60-day DL for room on 40-man.

[jersey cubs fan]

from day to day to 60 day

[Banedon]

from day to day to 60 day

 

The funeral date should be announced soon.

[Cubswin11]

Olt should probably start looking into real estate in Japan with his time off.

[Guest]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/projecting-addison-russell/

 

To try and zero in on players with Russell’s unique combination of low-walk high-power skill set, let’s pull up some comps. Below, you’ll find a list of all hitters aged 19-21 whose league-adjusted walk rate, strikeout rate, BABIP, ISO and stolen base frequency fell within 1.25 standard deviations of Russell’s marks from Double-A. The table includes each of these hitters’ major league stats through age 28.

 

Those comps are (in descending order of WAR):

 

Cargo

Jose Vidro

Javy Lopez

Tony Batista

Jermaine Dye

Juan Encarnacion

Randal Grichuk

Arquimedez Pozo (!)

Kevin Witt

Ruben Mateo

[Cubswin11]

I think I could live with a Cargo type bat at 2B for the next decade

[The-Kris-Bryant]

I'd be happy with Jose Vidro