2017 Spring Training Game Thread

[UMFan83]

Happy to hear that about Heyward. I don't dwell on bad Spring Training performance but given that he made significant changes to his swing it's obviously a good thing to start to see positive results.

[David]

For those (like me) who missed it:

 

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/69972428/v1231836283/chclaa-heyward-rips-a-tworun-double-to-left/?query=cubs - Double

 

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/69972428/v1231724783/chclaa-heyward-opens-scoring-with-long-home-run/?query=cubs - Dong

[Derwood]

For those (like me) who missed it:

 

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/69972428/v1231836283/chclaa-heyward-rips-a-tworun-double-to-left/?query=cubs - Double

 

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/69972428/v1231724783/chclaa-heyward-opens-scoring-with-long-home-run/?query=cubs - Dong

 

That home run swing was still....weird. He looked like he rolled by ankles on the swing.

[David]

For those (like me) who missed it:

 

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/69972428/v1231836283/chclaa-heyward-rips-a-tworun-double-to-left/?query=cubs - Double

 

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/69972428/v1231724783/chclaa-heyward-opens-scoring-with-long-home-run/?query=cubs - Dong

 

That home run swing was still....weird. He looked like he rolled by ankles on the swing.

 

Maybe not as pronounced, but 2012 Heyward doesn't look that much different to me

 

http://m.mlb.com/video/v24710295/atlmil-heyward-homers-into-the-second-deck-in-right/?query=jason+heyward+2012+home+run

 

Again, tho, it's still my stance that none of us is qualified to comment on these things

[Derwood]

For those (like me) who missed it:

 

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/69972428/v1231836283/chclaa-heyward-rips-a-tworun-double-to-left/?query=cubs - Double

 

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/69972428/v1231724783/chclaa-heyward-opens-scoring-with-long-home-run/?query=cubs - Dong

 

That home run swing was still....weird. He looked like he rolled by ankles on the swing.

 

Maybe not as pronounced, but 2012 Heyward doesn't look that much different to me

 

http://m.mlb.com/video/v24710295/atlmil-heyward-homers-into-the-second-deck-in-right/?query=jason+heyward+2012+home+run

 

Again, tho, it's still my stance that none of us is qualified to comment on these things

 

If the results are good, who cares (of course), but yeah, that 2012 clip was just a footwork mess.

[David]

basically, what i'm saying is, heyward has always looked ugly. last year def more out of whack and obviously results were awful, but scouts have been talking crap about his swing and overall mechanics forever. so hopefully he can go back to being good at the plate again despite looking goofy, instead of looking a little more goofy and being very bad like last year.

 

edit - here he is with the goofy footwork again, taking james russell deep

 

http://m.mlb.com/video/v32792295/chcatl-heyward-adds-insurance-with-tworun-homer/?query=jason+heyward+braves+cubs+home+run

[imb]

you can tell he's really trying to keep from tucking in his front shoulder. Sometimes he even does it and realizes it and sticks it back in during his load.

[Banedon]

It's almost like he's using spring training to work on a new swing.

[jersey cubs fan]

It's almost like he's using spring training to work on a new swing.

first I've heard of it

[Sammy Sofa]

Sometimes he even does it and realizes it and sticks it back in during his load.

 

I had no idea they had hired Sting as a coach.

[David]

heyward lined one hard in his first ab

 

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[treebird]

i know i said last year that everyone talking themselves into heyward's fluke 3 for his last 9s or whatever was like in little big league when billy falls in love with his favorite player's seeing-eye singles, but this new "ALERT ALERT HEYWARD HAS HIT THE BALL AT LEAST KIND OF HARD IN CONSECUTIVE SPRING TRAINING GAMES" really takes the cake.

 

we all want him to be good soooooo much. it is adorable.

[David]

i know i said last year that everyone talking themselves into heyward's fluke 3 for his last 9s or whatever was like in little big league when billy falls in love with his favorite player's seeing-eye singles, but this new "ALERT ALERT HEYWARD HAS HIT THE BALL AT LEAST KIND OF HARD IN CONSECUTIVE SPRING TRAINING GAMES" really takes the cake.

 

we all want him to be good soooooo much. it is adorable.

 

nah actual hard contact >> those seeing eye singles even if it is ST

 

i can barely even picture heyward with anything resembling hard contact last year outside of his 7 dongs, of which i remember only 2 of them and i can only assume the other 5 were heavily wind blown popups

[David]

funny but #truefact

 

heyward actually hit 11% fewer grounders last year than he did the year before with STL, and his LD% (lol LD%) was a little over a percent higher. 1.39 gb/fb ratio compared to 2.44 the year before. imagine seeing that many more ground balls from him than he already had despite him having basically put up an .800 ops that year.

[Banedon]

i know i said last year that everyone talking themselves into heyward's fluke 3 for his last 9s or whatever was like in little big league when billy falls in love with his favorite player's seeing-eye singles, but this new "ALERT ALERT HEYWARD HAS HIT THE BALL AT LEAST KIND OF HARD IN CONSECUTIVE SPRING TRAINING GAMES" really takes the cake.

 

we all want him to be good soooooo much. it is adorable.

 

It goes the other way too. With every bad AB suddenly everyone becomes a swing doctor and tries to pick apart his failures.

[bukie]

i know i said last year that everyone talking themselves into heyward's fluke 3 for his last 9s or whatever was like in little big league when billy falls in love with his favorite player's seeing-eye singles, but this new "ALERT ALERT HEYWARD HAS HIT THE BALL AT LEAST KIND OF HARD IN CONSECUTIVE SPRING TRAINING GAMES" really takes the cake.

 

we all want him to be good soooooo much. it is adorable.

 

It goes the other way too. With every bad AB suddenly everyone becomes a swing doctor and tries to pick apart his failures.

 

The only thing that bothers me are the people actively rooting for him to fail because they want to be proven right in their opposition to his acquisition.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

i know i said last year that everyone talking themselves into heyward's fluke 3 for his last 9s or whatever was like in little big league when billy falls in love with his favorite player's seeing-eye singles, but this new "ALERT ALERT HEYWARD HAS HIT THE BALL AT LEAST KIND OF HARD IN CONSECUTIVE SPRING TRAINING GAMES" really takes the cake.

 

we all want him to be good soooooo much. it is adorable.

 

It goes the other way too. With every bad AB suddenly everyone becomes a swing doctor and tries to pick apart his failures.

 

The only thing that bothers me are the people actively rooting for him to fail because they want to be proven right in their opposition to his acquisition.

nobody gives a horsefeathers about Cardinals fans

[David]

i know i said last year that everyone talking themselves into heyward's fluke 3 for his last 9s or whatever was like in little big league when billy falls in love with his favorite player's seeing-eye singles, but this new "ALERT ALERT HEYWARD HAS HIT THE BALL AT LEAST KIND OF HARD IN CONSECUTIVE SPRING TRAINING GAMES" really takes the cake.

 

we all want him to be good soooooo much. it is adorable.

 

It goes the other way too. With every bad AB suddenly everyone becomes a swing doctor and tries to pick apart his failures.

 

The only thing that bothers me are the people actively rooting for him to fail because they want to be proven right in their opposition to his acquisition.

 

i'm more annoyed at the people who were either against his acquisition (or the cards fans who were like good riddens) acting vindicated like last year was anything like heyward has been the rest of his career. he was a 26 year old coming off a very good year who cratered out of nowhere.

[David]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/839231794629103616[/tweet]

[Derwood]

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I feel like there is a bucket full of context missing here

[Banedon]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/839231794629103616[/tweet]

 

I feel like there is a bucket full of context missing here

 

Not if you know how to read a twitter thread.

[Derwood]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/839231794629103616[/tweet]

 

I feel like there is a bucket full of context missing here

 

Not if you know how to read a twitter thread.

 

I think we've established that I don't.

[Banedon]

I think we've established that I don't.

 

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[Derwood]

There's the bucket

[Ding Dong Johnson]

such a painful way to read a solid conversation