"Time makes fools of us all" - The Kyle Schwarber Thread

[David]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp8LML649Ig

[David]

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/19069873/the-heroic-feats-chicago-cubs-star-kyle-schwarber

[17 Seconds]

schwarber is my number one guy, but he's gotta lose the goatee

[BigSlick]

I had a hideous Matt Clement beard when I was 22 too so I approve of him just being a silly chubby early 20s guy with terrible sense of style.

 

I love him.

[Sammy Sofa]

Bare-faced Schwarber might be even worse than just a Disgusting Baseball Chin. He's the kind of burly behemoth who would benefit from a majestic, well-maintained beard.

[David]

http://media2.wcpo.com/photo/2015/07/09/WCPO_Kyle_Schwarber_Middletown_1436432635879_21075377_ver1.0_400_300.jpg

[Splendid Splinter]

Every time I see him with his goatee, he reminds me of a young Tank Abbott.

 

http://17r1l63fshd52dy9yakdizhkog.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Tank-Abbot.png

[Sammy Sofa]

http://media2.wcpo.com/photo/2015/07/09/WCPO_Kyle_Schwarber_Middletown_1436432635879_21075377_ver1.0_400_300.jpg

 

What a babyface. He needs to make himself look like Zangief.

[Banedon]

http://www.csnchicago.com/chicago-cubs/inside-scouting-report-where-cubs-compared-kyle-schwarber-babe-ruth-and-called-their-shot

 

"I believed today," Stan Zielinski wrote in a report filed on May 4, 2014, teasing the Cubs with the video he shot on a handheld camera during an Indiana-Purdue game. "I will send clip. To preview, squint your eyes and imagine a grainy film of Babe Ruth hitting a ball in the stands at Yankee Stadium. I swear I saw that reenacted today as the ball flew out over the 2nd fence in RF."

[PetermanRealityTour]

Farrell remembered Zielinski's last line in a lengthy Schwarber report documenting all the games he had seen before the Cubs made a franchise-altering decision in the 2014 draft: "You won't ever regret taking him at No. 4."

 

The Chills

[Splendid Splinter]

I think I've contracted priapism.

[We Got The Whole 9]

horsefeathers it was posted already Edited April 12, 2017 by We Got The Whole 9

[cl smooth]

This is also a great article

 

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/19069873/the-heroic-feats-chicago-cubs-star-kyle-schwarber

 

our resident bot beat you by two days:

 

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1131&p=159753#p158955

[We Got The Whole 9]

Sometimes it's hard to tell by tapatalk

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Contact% is up to 77.6%. Join the bandwagon now before it's too late. He'll be OPS'ing 1.000 in no time.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Russell and Bryant are both above that, too. This offense is going to decimate NL pitching.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Contact% is up to 77.6%. Join the bandwagon now before it's too late. He'll be OPS'ing 1.000 in no time.

 

Don't have to squint too hard to see it

[Derwood]

That extra inning pitch last night was up in his eyes and he just buggy-whipped that thing to right field. Dude has an insanely quick swing

[Sammy Sofa]

He's so awesome that he can tell an ump to horsefeathers off and the ump just goes "yessir."

 

PS: I want that gif.

[mikeyt34]

I curious about Kyle's defensive metrics thus far in 2017. Can one of you guys be so kind and do a little breakdown. I don't know what I'm reading half the time from those spread sheets on Fan Graphs and such. Thanks.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

his defense is not very good. no metric needed

[David]

I curious about Kyle's defensive metrics thus far in 2017. Can one of you guys be so kind and do a little breakdown. I don't know what I'm reading half the time from those spread sheets on Fan Graphs and such. Thanks.

 

So far he has a positive UZR/150 in LF (0.7) in 154 innings

 

For his career he's a light negative as an outfielder at -1.9 in 471.1 innings

[Cubswin11]

his defense is not very good. no metric needed

He seems entirely adequate out there

[David]

his defense is not very good. no metric needed

He seems entirely adequate out there

 

Yeah, I mean, he's not going to catch anything especially difficult and he will look bad at times due to his build/lacking athleticism, but it's not like i cringe when the ball is hit to left. i expect him to catch what he should and surprise us with some that he shouldn't here and there.

[UMFan83]

his defense is not very good. no metric needed

He seems entirely adequate out there

 

Yeah, I mean, he's not going to catch anything especially difficult and he will look bad at times due to his build/lacking athleticism, but it's not like i cringe when the ball is hit to left. i expect him to catch what he should and surprise us with some that he shouldn't here and there.

 

Is it really any worse that how Soler looked out there tracking fly balls? I'm actually asking because he seems like he has some issues making quick reads on some fly balls or misjudges how they bounce off the wall, but overall he seems pretty competent.