Ian Happ is Learning

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I put something together on Happ and his in-season adjustments this year: http://northsidebaseball.com/articles/prospect-articles/41-ian-happ-is-learning

 

Come for the Excel graph, stay for the words putting it in context!

 

[Tim]

That's fantastic!

 

Also probably a record for articles in one day. :)

[CaliforniaRaisin]

You guys should do more articles on weekdays when I'm stuck at work.

 

I'm glad Happ has stopped making me wish Benintendi had fallen to 9.

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[David]

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[CubInOK]

Happ used all fields during the 2 games in OKC I watched him. He hit HRs to LF and the gap between CF and RF. Great crack off the bat, no doubters, long dongs. Even the outs were sprayed everywhere.

 

Yes, my pants were also sprayed everywhere.

[Cubswin11]

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I don't think it's fair to put the weight of Jake Fox's legacy on his shoulders

[David]

what about jason dubois

[sneakypower]

http://i.imgur.com/nCAtnHR.jpg

[David]

http://i.imgur.com/nCAtnHR.jpg

 

love this

[Aaron_Kennelly]

I like it, but I also want Almora and Javy on there. We're gonna need a bigger board.

[David]

javy can go

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*ducks*

[sneakypower]

I like it, but I also want Almora and Javy on there. We're gonna need a bigger board.

it cheapens it to showcase def. replacements

[We Got The Whole 9]

I like it, but I also want Almora and Javy on there. We're gonna need a bigger board.

it cheapens it to showcase def. replacements

Willson might find himself there if he doesn't snap out of his disciplinary funk at the plate and make contact on more than half of his swings

[David]

I like it, but I also want Almora and Javy on there. We're gonna need a bigger board.

it cheapens it to showcase def. replacements

Willson might find himself there if he doesn't snap out of his disciplinary funk at the plate and make contact on more than half of his swings

 

do you post about anything else?

 

we get it. almost everyone has bad peripherals but YOU'RE NOT WORRIED OR DOOM BONERING, you're just posting about it in every single thread.

[We Got The Whole 9]

it cheapens it to showcase def. replacements

Willson might find himself there if he doesn't snap out of his disciplinary funk at the plate and make contact on more than half of his swings

 

do you post about anything else?

 

we get it. almost everyone has bad peripherals but YOU'RE NOT WORRIED OR DOOM BONERING, you're just posting about it in every single thread.

 

Am I? Or is this the only thread, besides, you know, game threads, where we talk about players and stuff, that I've mentioned it?

[We Got The Whole 9]

And seriously, do you realize you're getting on me for doing a smaller version of what you do constantly in regards to Javy?

 

I hope so.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

And seriously, do you realize you're getting on me for doing a smaller version of what you do constantly in regards to Javy?

 

I hope so.

 

Here's your last 10 posts, excluding the two in response to David: search.php?author_id=15869&sr=posts

 

- Zobrist's contact rate is down 10%

- Contreras is a defensive replacement if he doesn't figure out his plate discipline

- the offense looks terrible right now

- Bryant got 5 pitches he should have destroyed

- Happ is going to pass the whole Cubs team in HR

- Contreras can't hit changeups

- "Awesome" after Strop pitched poorly

- "Let's get that BB/9 in order Pedro"

- "Schwarber is going Gallo on us" (referring to K's)

- commiserating about the strike zone and glad Jake got out of it

 

9 out of 10 posts complaining about individual players or the offense as a whole.

 

Now do the same thing for David to see how often he actually complains about Baez: search.php?author_id=576&sr=posts

 

Criticism or disagreeing as fine. Criticism of this Cubs team as the overwhelming majority of what you say is obnoxious.

[David]

i gotta say it's kinda funny that i was seen as a javy apologist like 2 years ago and then after the playoffs the hype got so out of control that i'm seen as the opposite even though i feel like i feel basically the same as i did back then about him as a player, if not a little better about his floor (if deployed properly)

[Cubswin11]

i gotta say it's kinda funny that i was seen as a javy apologist like 2 years ago and then after the playoffs the hype got so out of control that i'm seen as the opposite even though i feel like i feel basically the same as i did back then about him as a player, if not a little better about his floor (if deployed properly)

Agree, David, my feelings exactly. I think we should start the Javy realist's? Pragmatic's? club. I'm open to the naming rights of it.

[sneakypower]

And seriously, do you realize you're getting on me for doing a smaller version of what you do constantly in regards to Javy?

 

I hope so.

 

Here's your last 10 posts, excluding the two in response to David: search.php?author_id=15869&sr=posts

 

- Zobrist's contact rate is down 10%

- Contreras is a defensive replacement if he doesn't figure out his plate discipline

- the offense looks terrible right now

- Bryant got 5 pitches he should have destroyed

- Happ is going to pass the whole Cubs team in HR

- Contreras can't hit changeups

- "Awesome" after Strop pitched poorly

- "Let's get that BB/9 in order Pedro"

- "Schwarber is going Gallo on us" (referring to K's)

- commiserating about the strike zone and glad Jake got out of it

 

9 out of 10 posts complaining about individual players or the offense as a whole.

 

Now do the same thing for David to see how often he actually complains about Baez: search.php?author_id=576&sr=posts

 

Criticism or disagreeing as fine. Criticism of this Cubs team as the overwhelming majority of what you say is obnoxious.

this guy's going be complaining even as his user name unwittingly refers to the NL all-star team

[We Got The Whole 9]

And seriously, do you realize you're getting on me for doing a smaller version of what you do constantly in regards to Javy?

 

I hope so.

 

Here's your last 10 posts, excluding the two in response to David: search.php?author_id=15869&sr=posts

 

- Zobrist's contact rate is down 10%

- Contreras is a defensive replacement if he doesn't figure out his plate discipline

- the offense looks terrible right now

- Bryant got 5 pitches he should have destroyed

- Happ is going to pass the whole Cubs team in HR

- Contreras can't hit changeups

- "Awesome" after Strop pitched poorly

- "Let's get that BB/9 in order Pedro"

- "Schwarber is going Gallo on us" (referring to K's)

- commiserating about the strike zone and glad Jake got out of it

 

9 out of 10 posts complaining about individual players or the offense as a whole.

 

Now do the same thing for David to see how often he actually complains about Baez: search.php?author_id=576&sr=posts

 

Criticism or disagreeing as fine. Criticism of this Cubs team as the overwhelming majority of what you say is obnoxious.

 

Honestly, Tiger

 

Is this really doom-bonering or is it simply negatively commenting on what is, right now? Do any of those posts attempt to portend what to expect in the future?

 

Any way, I don't want to soil this thread. Happ is having a killer start to the season. Does anyone know how he's looked defensively so far?

[CubInOK]

And seriously, do you realize you're getting on me for doing a smaller version of what you do constantly in regards to Javy?

 

I hope so.

 

Here's your last 10 posts, excluding the two in response to David: search.php?author_id=15869&sr=posts

 

- Zobrist's contact rate is down 10%

- Contreras is a defensive replacement if he doesn't figure out his plate discipline

- the offense looks terrible right now

- Bryant got 5 pitches he should have destroyed

- Happ is going to pass the whole Cubs team in HR

- Contreras can't hit changeups

- "Awesome" after Strop pitched poorly

- "Let's get that BB/9 in order Pedro"

- "Schwarber is going Gallo on us" (referring to K's)

- commiserating about the strike zone and glad Jake got out of it

 

9 out of 10 posts complaining about individual players or the offense as a whole.

 

Now do the same thing for David to see how often he actually complains about Baez: search.php?author_id=576&sr=posts

 

Criticism or disagreeing as fine. Criticism of this Cubs team as the overwhelming majority of what you say is obnoxious.

 

Honestly, Tiger

 

Is this really doom-bonering or is it simply negatively commenting on what is, right now? Do any of those posts attempt to portend what to expect in the future?

 

Any way, I don't want to soil this thread. Happ is having a killer start to the season. Does anyone know how he's looked defensively so far?

Made errors in OKC, but I honestly don't remember where he played.

[David]

was it birch that said he's been looking good?

 

he also made that sweet play in the clip above

[We Got The Whole 9]

 

Here's your last 10 posts, excluding the two in response to David: search.php?author_id=15869&sr=posts

 

- Zobrist's contact rate is down 10%

- Contreras is a defensive replacement if he doesn't figure out his plate discipline

- the offense looks terrible right now

- Bryant got 5 pitches he should have destroyed

- Happ is going to pass the whole Cubs team in HR

- Contreras can't hit changeups

- "Awesome" after Strop pitched poorly

- "Let's get that BB/9 in order Pedro"

- "Schwarber is going Gallo on us" (referring to K's)

- commiserating about the strike zone and glad Jake got out of it

 

9 out of 10 posts complaining about individual players or the offense as a whole.

 

Now do the same thing for David to see how often he actually complains about Baez: search.php?author_id=576&sr=posts

 

Criticism or disagreeing as fine. Criticism of this Cubs team as the overwhelming majority of what you say is obnoxious.

 

Honestly, Tiger

 

Is this really doom-bonering or is it simply negatively commenting on what is, right now? Do any of those posts attempt to portend what to expect in the future?

 

Any way, I don't want to soil this thread. Happ is having a killer start to the season. Does anyone know how he's looked defensively so far?

Made errors in OKC, but I honestly don't remember where he played.

Yeah I'm curious how much OF he is playing and how natural he looks out there