This is the thread where we talk about how awesome Kris Bryant is

[Sammy Sofa]

His haircut offends me.

[David]

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it's funny how a couple years ago we thought he might have issues sticking at 3rd and would almost certainly strike out a lot, but we still expected him to be a monster. then it turns out that he's actually good at 3rd and he cuts the strikeouts down to nearly 20%.

[BigSlick]

The guy is on a 4-5+ WAR/fWAR/WARP pace with "just" the .785 OPS he has now.

He's quietly on a 10 game hitting streak and a 6 game walking streak. He's raised his OPS to the .890s and I didn't even notice.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

So this guy is even better than he was last year.

[philosophizer75]

Reminds me of Lebron, in the sense that he is so SO good so consistently that it becomes ho-hum to watch him perform like an MVP and you only really take note if something is going poorly.

[Banedon]

So this guy is even better than he was last year.

 

Almost exactly the same other than walks.

 

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[We Got The Whole 9]

I don't like seeing Sano above him on the leaderboard. Hopefully that is over with soon.

 

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[soccer10k]

Reminds me of Lebron, in the sense that he is so SO good so consistently that it becomes ho-hum to watch him perform like an MVP and you only really take note if something is going poorly.

 

Also known as Mike Trout syndrome.

[Regular Show]

Reminds me of Lebron, in the sense that he is so SO good so consistently that it becomes ho-hum to watch him perform like an MVP and you only really take note if something is going poorly.

 

I wouldn't compare KB to Lebron in any way lol. Yeah, Lebron is consistently great and I get what you're saying, but I don't think KB is there yet...

[imb]

up to .321/.417/.563 and the power hasnt even turned on yet

 

19 for his last 38 with 8/9 bb/k

 

that will help

[Sammy Sofa]

He's using Mormon voodoo to feast off of the lifeforces of Schwarber and Rizzo.

[We Got The Whole 9]

KBs numbers get absolutely silly if you remove his oppo balls in play. For his career he's hitting 530 to the pull side with a 1000 slug and up the middle he's 400/700... but to oppo he's 220/375. Once he gets that oppo mojo he used to have it's horsefeathering curtains for the league.

 

Even a guy like Trout is only at 770 oppo OPS for his career so Bryant is not far off. And he has similar pull and up the middle results as KB. I could not find many other guys who have done that over a large sample.

 

A 170 wRC+ is certainly feasible.

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[Omar]

Its amazing how a man from Sin City has never committed a single one.

[doublebubble]

Met Mike Bryant today. Great guy. Talked for about an hour and told him about this message board. He may pop up here.

[imb]

oh god now we gotta stop cussing again

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

I want to know if they have watched Office Space.

[Sammy Sofa]

It's August and somehow this pants pooping magoob only has 20 dongs.

[Cubswin11]

It's August and somehow this pants pooping magoob only has 20 dongs.

Nobody is getting on base in front of him, pitchers can attack him more with pitchers, pitches and not have to give in as much when sexy dexy and the like were OBP monsters in front of him last year.

[Sammy Sofa]

Sure, why not.

[We Got The Whole 9]

I mean man I love the guy and he's still having a great season but why is it so sacrilegious to acknowledge the fact that his numbers say he has performed extremely poorly this season with RISP. You guys can say bad babip and small sample stuff but he's hit 5 HR all year with runners on base. I think it's fine to admit that that is not characteristic of Kris Bryant and it is disappointing. The general theory is that players' numbers should play across all situations but his 780 OPS is not what we all expect from KB. I'm going baseless meatball here but his swing looks a lot more 2015 than 2016 and he cannot catch up to the inside fastball with the regularity he did last season. He's fouling off a ton of pitches he was crushing last year. There's a significant drop in his LD (6%) and hard contact (9%) rates and he is not catching the barrel often. His pull% is also slightly down and his center% is slightly up. A lot of those 380 foot flies from last year are dying in CF gloves.

 

Not sure how to look it up but I'm curious about his batted ball distance compared to last year.

[Sammy Sofa]

I don't know why you keep looking crosseyed at it; the guy is just generally hitting for less power.

[Splendid Splinter]

Again?

[Aaron_Kennelly]

I mean man I love the guy and he's still having a great season but why is it so sacrilegious to acknowledge the fact that his numbers say he has performed extremely poorly this season with RISP. You guys can say bad babip and small sample stuff but he's hit 5 HR all year with runners on base. I think it's fine to admit that that is not characteristic of Kris Bryant and it is disappointing. The general theory is that players' numbers should play across all situations but his 780 OPS is not what we all expect from KB. I'm going baseless meatball here but his swing looks a lot more 2015 than 2016 and he cannot catch up to the inside fastball with the regularity he did last season. He's fouling off a ton of pitches he was crushing last year. There's a significant drop in his LD (6%) and hard contact (9%) rates and he is not catching the barrel often. His pull% is also slightly down and his center% is slightly up. A lot of those 380 foot flies from last year are dying in CF gloves.

 

Not sure how to look it up but I'm curious about his batted ball distance compared to last year.

 

You've got to quit inferring so much from stuff like LD%. It's crazy unstable. It does do a really good job of explaining why things have happened. But it's hard to use contact quality stats to tell us much going forward. Remember when Miguel Sano and Aaron Judge were BABIP'ing over .400 and making no weak contact and you were going gaga over them and proclaiming that Judge was going to BABIP over .400 all year?