Baez

[Sammy Sofa]

Has Baez been starting at 2B at all recently?

 

Not sure, but I know a report came out in the last few days that they were going to have him play a bunch of different positions.

 

Presumably 2B, SS and 3B. Anything beyond that would be overkill right now.

[jumbo]

Has Baez been starting at 2B at all recently?

 

Not sure, but I know a report came out in the last few days that they were going to have him play a bunch of different positions.

 

Presumably 2B, SS and 3B. Anything beyond that would be overkill right now.

 

What are the odds that Baez gets the Zobrist super sub role? I wouldn't worry about him taking up LF, but what about center or right? Mayne not enough range/fly ball tracking for CF? Not enough arm for RF?

[sontensei]

As far as I know baez has a pretty good arm..

[Sammy Sofa]

Hmmmmm.

 

Maybe they're just hoping that between Castro and Baez they can cover 2B and CF. Try and have a cheap platoon in LF again and then spend almost all of their money on a big starting pitcher?

[JennieGarthAlgar]

If Baez plays his way to our ML roster I don't think moving him all over the place is the best way to utilize him. Find him a spot and leave him there to mash. Coghlan can be the super sub guy, or he gets traded.

 

A figured out Javy Baez moves around for no man.

[Irrelevant Dude]

If Baez plays his way to our ML roster I don't think moving him all over the place is the best way to utilize him. Find him a spot and leave him there to mash. Coghlan can be the super sub guy, or he gets traded.

 

A figured out Javy Baez moves around for no man.

Coghlan is from the Jake Fox school of supersubs. He plays a lot of positions and plays most, if not all, of them poorly. If it is possible to park him where he can cause the least damage (Left Field) and have another more competent defender (Baez) at a key defensive position, I would be in favor of that. The Cubs are making the best of what they have to work with right now, but I would certainly not be married to Coghlan in the supersub role.

[sneakypower]

i don't really believe 2B is that difficult a position to man; Baltimore had Steve Pearce there for the better part of a month to little incident

 

balls aren't even often hit hard there unless it's a pull-heavy LH, but then these guys are playing short RF anyway

 

and the talk of Coghlan as a poor LF now is completely unfounded, at best it's drawing from outdated memories

 

edit: touching on this in a little further detail, team UZR/150 standard deviations:

1B - 6.2 runs

2B - 5.9

SS - 8.6

3B - 8.3

RF - 7.9

CF - 12.9

LF - 10

 

suggesting there seems to be less difference between the effect of a bad fielder at 2B/1B than there is at positions like CF & 3B

[Cubswin11]

i don't really believe 2B is that difficult a position to man; Baltimore had Steve Pearce there for the better part of a month to little incident

 

balls aren't even often hit hard there unless it's a pull-heavy LH, but then these guys are playing short RF anyway

 

and the talk of Coghlan as a poor LF now is completely unfounded, at best it's drawing from outdated memories

 

edit: touching on this in a little further detail, team UZR/150 standard deviations:

1B - 6.2 runs

2B - 5.9

SS - 8.6

3B - 8.3

RF - 7.9

CF - 12.9

LF - 10

 

suggesting there seems to be less difference between the effect of a bad fielder at 2B/1B than there is at positions like CF & 3B

Coghlan is pretty bad in LF, regardless what the numbers say he's one of those guys that doesn't really pass the eye test

[Guest]

neither did soriano

[Guest]

i don't really believe 2B is that difficult a position to man; Baltimore had Steve Pearce there for the better part of a month to little incident

 

balls aren't even often hit hard there unless it's a pull-heavy LH, but then these guys are playing short RF anyway

 

and the talk of Coghlan as a poor LF now is completely unfounded, at best it's drawing from outdated memories

 

edit: touching on this in a little further detail, team UZR/150 standard deviations:

1B - 6.2 runs

2B - 5.9

SS - 8.6

3B - 8.3

RF - 7.9

CF - 12.9

LF - 10

 

suggesting there seems to be less difference between the effect of a bad fielder at 2B/1B than there is at positions like CF & 3B

 

this is really interesting.

[The-Kris-Bryant]

i don't really believe 2B is that difficult a position to man; Baltimore had Steve Pearce there for the better part of a month to little incident

 

balls aren't even often hit hard there unless it's a pull-heavy LH, but then these guys are playing short RF anyway

 

and the talk of Coghlan as a poor LF now is completely unfounded, at best it's drawing from outdated memories

 

edit: touching on this in a little further detail, team UZR/150 standard deviations:

1B - 6.2 runs

2B - 5.9

SS - 8.6

3B - 8.3

RF - 7.9

CF - 12.9

LF - 10

 

suggesting there seems to be less difference between the effect of a bad fielder at 2B/1B than there is at positions like CF & 3B

that doesn't suggest anything of the sort

[Guest]

i don't really believe 2B is that difficult a position to man; Baltimore had Steve Pearce there for the better part of a month to little incident

 

balls aren't even often hit hard there unless it's a pull-heavy LH, but then these guys are playing short RF anyway

 

and the talk of Coghlan as a poor LF now is completely unfounded, at best it's drawing from outdated memories

 

edit: touching on this in a little further detail, team UZR/150 standard deviations:

1B - 6.2 runs

2B - 5.9

SS - 8.6

3B - 8.3

RF - 7.9

CF - 12.9

LF - 10

 

suggesting there seems to be less difference between the effect of a bad fielder at 2B/1B than there is at positions like CF & 3B

that doesn't suggest anything of the sort

The smaller the SD the less distance from the best to worst (i.e., data are bunched up). What I find interesting in those numbers is LF. But really, UZR is about as unreliable as a measurement system can be, so whatever.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

i don't really believe 2B is that difficult a position to man; Baltimore had Steve Pearce there for the better part of a month to little incident

 

balls aren't even often hit hard there unless it's a pull-heavy LH, but then these guys are playing short RF anyway

 

and the talk of Coghlan as a poor LF now is completely unfounded, at best it's drawing from outdated memories

 

edit: touching on this in a little further detail, team UZR/150 standard deviations:

1B - 6.2 runs

2B - 5.9

SS - 8.6

3B - 8.3

RF - 7.9

CF - 12.9

LF - 10

 

suggesting there seems to be less difference between the effect of a bad fielder at 2B/1B than there is at positions like CF & 3B

that doesn't suggest anything of the sort

The smaller the SD the less distance from the best to worst (i.e., data are bunched up). What I find interesting in those numbers is LF. But really, UZR is about as unreliable as a measurement system can be, so whatever.

 

Yes, but it doesn't suggest what he says it does. What it also could suggest is that teams are more willing to throw out a wider range of defenders in the outfield. Some teams might be willing to punt on defense to get a big bat in LF -- e.g., Schwarber -- whereas they wouldn't be willing to do that at second, with someone like Coghlan. Most second baseman are glove-first, slap hitters. So the standard deviation between them probably isn't going to be much.

 

Though, that also might be [expletive]. In reality those numbers suggest nothing.

[RynoRules]

Has Baez been starting at 2B at all recently?

 

Not sure, but I know a report came out in the last few days that they were going to have him play a bunch of different positions.

 

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[Sammy Sofa]

What are Baez's splits in the minors? Presumably he's only really going to get starts against LH since Coghlan is hitting again.

[Gilby]

What are Baez's splits in the minors? Presumably he's only really going to get starts against LH since Coghlan is hitting again.

 

.329/.397/.586/.983 vs lefties. He has a .861 OPS vs righties.

[Sammy Sofa]

What are Baez's splits in the minors? Presumably he's only really going to get starts against LH since Coghlan is hitting again.

 

.329/.397/.586/.983 vs lefties. He has a .861 OPS vs righties.

 

Bing-bang-boom. A platoon role might be what the doctor ordered to get him comfortable.

[davell]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/13512551/after-loss-injury-javier-baez-ready-cubs

 

Read this.

[badger1679666666]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/13512551/after-loss-injury-javier-baez-ready-cubs

 

Read this.

 

Thanks for posting, had no idea what he struggled with his whole life. Lot of resilience in that kid.

[Guest]

Yeah I had never heard the story of what happened to his dad.

[Banedon]

Goodness....that article...

 

Knew some of that ,but man...rooting for him big time.

[mul21]

Man, I really want to see him succeed more than ever now. Seems like a really good dude and it seems like the organization just gets it in general. They've handled situations like this so well in the last couple years and I really don't think there's a better guy to have leading them all than Maddon.

[Guest]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/13512551/after-loss-injury-javier-baez-ready-cubs

 

Read this.

Damn. Now I want him back up and mashing even more.

[Guest]

since everything great seems to happen to us, i'm gonna present this question

 

if starlin hits well the rest of the year and javy gets a significant amount of PA and mashes in a way that addresses some of our concerns about him, how seriously do we consider javy as next year's CF?

[sneakypower]

just 20 Ks in his last 100 PA