Baez impresses Baez

[Clem Fandango]

[seanimal]

because of course he doesn't look at the person he's tagging like 90% of the time

[badger]

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[Bull]

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So is that Jay Bee, or Hota Beh?

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Javy!!! He keeps this up and someday he might be as good as Mike Fontenot.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Baez impresses Raisin:

 

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[Gmoney08]

Baez impresses Raisin:

 

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LOL... Javy...

 

Im kind of confused if lefty was his natural side why he didn't stick there though?

[Aaron_Kennelly]

There are so many things in this tweet to absorb.

 

1. What!?

2. How does he throw upwards of 100 mph with what is not his natural hand? What a freak.

3. Looking at his splits, does he need to go back to switch hitting?

4. If he went back to switch hitting, would he be better than Kris Bryant?

5. How does him swinging so hard that he hurt his back make him decide to stop swinging left-handed when he is naturally a lefty?

6. How hard did he have to swing left-handed to hurt his back, considering how hard he kept swinging right-handed?

7. Can he pitch left-handed on days that he is not playing the field?

[Gmoney08]

There are so many things in this tweet to absorb.

 

1. What!?

2. How does he throw upwards of 100 mph with what is not his natural hand? What a freak.

3. Looking at his splits, does he need to go back to switch hitting?

4. If he went back to switch hitting, would he be better than Kris Bryant?

5. How does him swinging so hard that he hurt his back make him decide to stop swinging left-handed when he is naturally a lefty?

6. How hard did he have to swing left-handed to hurt his back, considering how hard he kept swinging right-handed?

7. Can he pitch left-handed on days that he is not playing the field?

 

One thing is that he could be a naturally lefty hitter while being a righty in the field. Fairly common.

 

This could also be some sort of translation issue.

 

I believe there is guys who stopped switch hitting for years and started back up later in their career. Not many but im pretty sure I have read about it.

 

Somebody tweet him!

[jersey cubs fan]

Baez impresses Raisin:

 

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LOL... Javy...

 

Im kind of confused if lefty was his natural side why he didn't stick there though?

It's possible he didn't have access to the lh mitt as a kid.

It's also possible he writes left handed but plays baseball right handed. I learned to hit righty but have a more natural and powerful lh swing, but a terrible eye from that side. I learned to track a pitch from rh side and so that's how I played.

[BigSlick]

Apparently he writes with his left hand too. Which is strange...because he's so good at fielding as a righty.

[David]

Clearly, he's ambidextrous if anything. This just leaves me to daydream about how well he might hit righties if he would switch hit.

 

Also insane how hard and accurately he can throw. Wonder if he can come close throwing lefty.

[Banedon]

I like to imagine Maddon reading that tweet and being like...

 

http://gfycat.com/BoilingGrotesqueInexpectatumpleco

[Sammy Sofa]

Forget that freakish hitting Japanese pitcher TomBobomb keeps pining over; the Cubs can make their own out of Baez.

[Clem Fandango]

If he's truly ambidextrous that's awesome. Though I grew up as a lefty writer and a righty thrower, and a righty in the batters box, but a switch handed person on a tennis/raquetball court, I always assumed I was ambidextrous, but I recently learned not long ago that apparently that's called mixed-handedness, or cross-dominance. You're only ambidextrous if you can truly do everything with either your left or right hand and that is apparently very rare ("some suggest about 1%, others a vanishingly small percentage"), but if you can only do some things with both hands and strictly one hand on others (or if you can do things with both hands but one of them is more dominant than the other), it's mixed-handedness/cross-dominance.

 

[David]

If he's truly ambidextrous that's awesome. Though I grew up as a lefty writer and a righty thrower, and a righty in the batters box, but a switch handed person on a tennis/raquetball court, I always assumed I was ambidextrous, but I recently learned not long ago that apparently that's called mixed-handedness, or cross-dominance. You're only ambidextrous if you can truly do everything with either your left or right hand and that is apparently very rare ("some suggest about 1%, others a vanishingly small percentage"), but if you can only do some things with both hands and strictly one hand on others (or if you can do things with both hands but one of them is more dominant than the other), it's mixed-handedness/cross-dominance.

 

 

isn't there some nature vs. nurture involved in that, though? like many can probably write well with either hand if they learned (even though obviously we have some sort of predisposition to write with one hand or the other). and i bet many can learn to throw with their non dominant hand with enough practice.

 

i guess the question is what's the threshold and is it about being able to do it equally as well with either hand or is it being able to do it at an acceptable level with either hand. like if i can write or throw well with my left but i clearly write or throw better with my right, does that count?

[Bull]

If he's truly ambidextrous that's awesome. Though I grew up as a lefty writer and a righty thrower, and a righty in the batters box, but a switch handed person on a tennis/raquetball court, I always assumed I was ambidextrous, but I recently learned not long ago that apparently that's called mixed-handedness, or cross-dominance. You're only ambidextrous if you can truly do everything with either your left or right hand and that is apparently very rare ("some suggest about 1%, others a vanishingly small percentage"), but if you can only do some things with both hands and strictly one hand on others (or if you can do things with both hands but one of them is more dominant than the other), it's mixed-handedness/cross-dominance.

 

 

isn't there some nature vs. nurture involved in that, though? like many can probably write well with either hand if they learned (even though obviously we have some sort of predisposition to write with one hand or the other). and i bet many can learn to throw with their non dominant hand with enough practice.

 

i guess the question is what's the threshold and is it about being able to do it equally as well with either hand or is it being able to do it at an acceptable level with either hand. like if i can write or throw well with my left but i clearly write or throw better with my right, does that count?

 

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Details, details. I want the man hitting left handed in winter leagues ALL WINTER LONG.

 

Javy against RHP: .258 .282 .415 .697

[David]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKW5D-TgJdW/

 

this caption is so perfectly javy

[USSoccer]

I want to know where to get that shirt.

[Banedon]

this caption is so perfectly javy

 

It's like Mojo made a fake caption in ""Javy voice" and put it on there. Except it's real.

[seanimal]

umm what is he doing?

[Aaron_Kennelly]

This is from earlier this week and I know it was posted elsewhere on here, but I really enjoyed it.

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-elite-skill-you-wont-find-on-javy-baezs-scouting-report/

 

The funny part to me was when he was talking about how there are a lot of minor things that we don't think about and aren't quantifiable, and someone is better than everyone else at each of these things.

There’s a king of the “second-base-glove-flip-to-first,” but we haven’t crowned him.

You know, I've seen Javy do this before, and I wouldn't be surprised if he is better than everyone else at it, too.

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/0/v767215883/lad-chc-baez-shows-off-some-nifty-defense-in-6th

 

He also showed a clip of Baez avoiding a tag in this article and talked briefly about it. He then talked about these "80-grade minor skills" a lot in his chat the next day. He was under the impression that Lindor was the king of the swim move on a slide to avoid a tag.

 

http://37.media.tumblr.com/71b766899c09cdac9f24721775327300/tumblr_n9ij0ekQmc1setsv8o1_400.gif

 

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/63817564/v630136483/milchc-baez-swipes-second-after-call-overturned

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/63817564/v832285683/pitchc-baez-steals-second-with-slick-slide

 

Barehanding a slow roller down the third-base line? Find someone better than Javy, I dare you.

 

Basically, what I'm saying is that Javy is better than everyone at all of these things. If it is a random, minor baseball skill that requires athleticism, then Javier Baez is better than you at it.

[Derwood]

umm what is he doing?

 

It's cute that you're pretending not to know what dabbing is

[Thrilho]

Basically, what I'm saying is that Javy is better than everyone at all of these things. If it is a random, minor baseball skill that requires athleticism, then Javier Baez is better than you at it.

 

Yeah I've been wrestling for a while with how I could like 2.2 WAR Javy as much as KB but I think you hit it on the head here. He's so athletic that he finds these nooks and crannies in the game where he can make use of it, and it's just so fun to watch. maybe more fun than a dude who is a conventionally awesome hitter, just because he's so rare.

 

But the other big part was he was supposed to be this braggart "I'll do whatever the horsefeathers I want" a-hole as an A baller and that's exactly what he is. He's the horsefeathers with the MLB tat, wearing a wide open leopard skin vest under his jersey making that crazy athletic play then slapping you in the chest as hard as he can to make the tag.

 

Definitely need that. Can't be all quire boys and seals. But even then he's not a Kolton Wong style angry horsefeathers. He's a goofball. You want a guy like him around retweeting his own articles, shooting selfies with an eye rolling Hendricks, or tricking Soler with hilarious fake Chinese food. Perfect weirdo for Maddon to point to and say "sure be whoever you want. This dude walked in here today with a baby tiger on a leash." Love that Javy.

[philosophizer75]

Javy is my favorite, and it didn't take long at all. He is a devastatingly fun to watch baseball player.

 

And thrilho, I agree with everything you said. I think it's spelled choir though, just an fyi.