Let's All Freak Out About Jorge Soler, You Guys

[Sammy Sofa]

I remember the talk about him standing further back and the meatballs drooling over how he was hopping less, but the numbers seem kind of inconclusive. FG seems to think he improved in his final full season with the Cubs, but it wasn't his best defensive year with them. BR shows little variance between that final full season and the season before.

[Guest]

I'm not going to look it up for you [expletive] but Sveum and Dave McKay "worked" with Soriano on his defense for among other things his ridiculous hop catch. But mostly they told him to play deeper. On some AB he would stand right in front of the warning track. There were several articles written about it at the time discussing his improved defense.

 

I know it's cool to be anti anti Soriano, but he was a poor defensive baseball player.

Okay, so you admit you were wrong earlier.

 

 

Ok, you win. Soriano was a better defender when he played so deep it was virtually impossible for him to misplay a ball.

[Sammy Sofa]

So deep.

 

He put our asses to sleep.

[Derwood]

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn233/OHCubsFan/OuterSpace.jpg

[Guest]

https://www.instagram.com/p/_PXk0CSBbV/

[Sammy Sofa]

[expletive], he is ridiculously good-looking.

[Andy]

https://www.instagram.com/p/_PXk0CSBbV/

Wait, he's married and has a kid? Count me as knowing neither of those things.

[jersey cubs fan]

That's an ugly kid

[Derwood]

That's an ugly kid

 

He could've reached higher on the wife, too

[SouthSideRyan]

I think the kid is A-Rod's

[Guest]

https://www.instagram.com/p/_PXk0CSBbV/

Are they members of the guilty remnant now?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I think the kid is A-Rod's

Holy [expletive], that's crazy.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

I think the kid is A-Rod's

 

I thought it was Steph Curry's, but am now disappointed in myself for not thinking A-Rod first.

[Guest]

I don't remember seeing this before, but it was fun to look through

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-best-thing-about-all-nine-jorge-soler-plate-appearances/

 

Almost forgot he hit another dong and a two double game in the NLCS too.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I predict he has a respectable but ultimately uninteresting career as a platoon outfielder outside of one completely random season where he jacks 48 for the Kansas City Royals.

[UMFan83]

7 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

I predict he has a respectable but ultimately uninteresting career as a platoon outfielder outside of one completely random season where he jacks 48 for the Kansas City Royals.

Are we just going to ignore the fact that he was the World Series MVP for the Braves?

[17 Seconds]

he had one of the cooler postseason home runs in recent memory

 

 

[Tim]

2 minutes ago, 17 Seconds said:

he had one of the cooler postseason home runs in recent memory

 

 

I'm more partial to this one:

Or this one:

Or even this one:

 

[UMFan83]

Personally enjoy watching them all (2016 at least):

 

 

[Hairyducked Idiot]

27 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Are we just going to ignore the fact that he was the World Series MVP for the Braves?

I did not know that. I cannot emphraize enough how much I have not paid attention to baseball the last five years.

[17 Seconds]

10 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

I did not know that. I cannot emphraize enough how much I have not paid attention to baseball the last five years.

you're so full of horsefeathers

[chopsx9]

52 minutes ago, 17 Seconds said:

you're so full of horsefeathers

In the spirit of the new board you should empharize with him more.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

1 hour ago, 17 Seconds said:

you're so full of horsefeathers

True but unrelated to this subject 

[David]

I completely believe that Kyle does not watch much baseball. Or football.

[Matthew Trueblood]

I think he still counts as ultimately uninteresting, but I have one Jorge Soler anecdote to share. I was in the Cubs' clubhouse for two days in June 2015, working on a feature for Baseball Prospectus. I must've spent three hours in the clubhouse and the dugout. I never saw Jorge Soler's left hand. The man walked around, everywhere, for a long time on two consecutive days, with one hand down his pants.