Kris Bryant is awesome and we were always right to love him

[Hairyducked Idiot]

The best predictor of future injury is still past injury.

 

Never extend anyone. Betting on decline is always better value

[Cubswin11]

[Bertz]

 

[Sammy Sofa]

[Gmoney23]

Sad hes been banged up and not the year in year out monster that we expected.

 

I would still see if we can sign him longterm south of 200m because he has never had a terrible career changing injuries.

 

The nagging injuries KB has had seem to he more bad luck than body breaking down.

[squally1313]

Sad hes been banged up and not the year in year out monster that we expected.

 

I would still see if we can sign him longterm south of 200m because he has never had a terrible career changing injuries.

 

The nagging injuries KB has had seem to he more bad luck than body breaking down.

 

After reading (and buying into) all the complaints about the Cubs making players play through minor injuries and constantly being nicked up, I'm starting to wonder if this is something all teams go through, but very few people around here follow other teams as closely as they do the Cubs. Like I have no idea if anybody on the Cardinals is battling something minor or not, but watching the games, reading here, following the beat writers makes me very aware of which Cubs are fighting through something.

 

To bring that back to KB, if the minor injuries thing the last few years has been uniquely a Cubs thing, then I'm more high on him because I'm more likely to believe it's just a fluky run of bad luck. But if these minor injuries happen across the whole population (and are more likely to continue), and he's just a player who needs everything to be perfect for his swing to be right....then I'm a lot more worried about his future.

[Cubswin11]

Extend him, most under appreciated player of all time honestly.

 

[Cubswin11]

Go off my dude

 

[17 Seconds]

Go off my dude

 

 

no pizza rolls for a week

[Omar]

heres what happened

 

Kris Bryant had a baby

 

having a baby has been proven to lower your testosterone / raise your estrogen and cholesterol (studies show)

 

Baseball is a very masculine sport

 

therefore

 

having a baby ruined KB's career

[Cubswin11]

[Derwood]

Will he now be excommunicated by the LDS?

[gflore34]

I think obviously what we're in store for is that the 2020s Bryant extension will do for Cubs what that insane Pujols extension did for whatstheirfaces

 

Also they should just assume most of those tweets are from bots anyway

 

Wasn't Pujols at least 50 years old though?

[Brian]

Cubs holding him back to get the 4th arb year stopped him from becoming a free agent in the middle of a pandemic. They are actually heroes.

[NOLA]

A really good read from Peter Gammons in the Athletic today (seriously) about what he misses by not being on the field talking to players.

https://theathletic.com/2234677/2020/12/04/gammons-what-2021-mlb-season-look-like/

 

A mention of KB:

I appreciate human contact with stars like Gerrit Cole, Giancarlo Stanton, Andrew McCutchen, Carlos Correa, Buster Posey, Marcus Semien, Stephen Strasburg, Andrew Miller, Jack Flaherty, Freddie Freeman and a hundred more because they look you in the eye, ingest every word of conversations. Add another person: Kris Bryant, because whoever gets the opportunity to find out why the fun has drained out of his baseball life will get a great player, great person.

:-k

[Clem Fandango]

A really good read from Peter Gammons in the Athletic today (seriously) about what he misses by not being on the field talking to players.

https://theathletic.com/2234677/2020/12/04/gammons-what-2021-mlb-season-look-like/

 

A mention of KB:

I appreciate human contact with stars like Gerrit Cole, Giancarlo Stanton, Andrew McCutchen, Carlos Correa, Buster Posey, Marcus Semien, Stephen Strasburg, Andrew Miller, Jack Flaherty, Freddie Freeman and a hundred more because they look you in the eye, ingest every word of conversations. Add another person: Kris Bryant, because whoever gets the opportunity to find out why the fun has drained out of his baseball life will get a great player, great person.

:-k

 

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30753695/chicago-cubs-kris-bryant-not-having-much-fun-before

 

After intimating as much over the last year or so, Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant admitted he isn't having as much fun playing baseball as he used to.

 

Bryant, 29, spoke to Red Line Radio, a Barstool podcast, and was asked if there was joy for him on the field.

 

"At times, no," Bryant responded. "It really got to me sometimes. The stuff I was hearing. The first trade rumors (in 2018) that started to pop up really got to me. I find myself (thinking) 'Man is this even fun anymore? Why did I start playing this game?' Because it was fun.

 

"There's a lot of other stuff involved. You make a ton of money and fame and all this. You have to get yourself back to why I started playing."

[NOLA]

Sunshine, where have you gone?

 

[jersey cubs fan]

leave the guy alone his buddy just lost his job and he's down about it

[Sammy Sofa]

Kris Bryant is sad about baseball because he's on the Cubs and talks about it on a horsefeathering Barstool podcast, and then Jesse Rogers writes about it. That's so many delicious layers of depressing.

[Derwood]

"Just smile more" is the thing that creepy dudes say to women walking down the street.

[KingCubsFan]

Bryant’s at .283/.380/.617 with a 21% K rate and 13% BB rate so far (71 PAs)...His 10% SwStr is in line with 2017, soft contact the lowest of his career, average EV and barrell rate the highest...Un-horsefeathers-believable that the Ricketts, Redacted (rhymes with Schmizney), and MLB were able to convince the world - so easily - that this guy was toast

I’m encouraged by the start too, but it’s 71 plate appearances.

[Cubswin11]

Bryant’s at .283/.380/.617 with a 21% K rate and 13% BB rate so far (71 PAs)...His 10% SwStr is in line with 2017, soft contact the lowest of his career, average EV and barrell rate the highest...Un-horsefeathers-believable that the Ricketts, Redacted (rhymes with Schmizney), and MLB were able to convince the world - so easily - that this guy was toast

I’m encouraged by the start too, but it’s 71 plate appearances.

As long as he’s healthy this is what he is. A very good baseball player. Every stretch of him being bad was always tied to an injury. I want him extended more than anyone.

[Backtobanks]

Bryant’s at .283/.380/.617 with a 21% K rate and 13% BB rate so far (71 PAs)...His 10% SwStr is in line with 2017, soft contact the lowest of his career, average EV and barrell rate the highest...Un-horsefeathers-believable that the Ricketts, Redacted (rhymes with Schmizney), and MLB were able to convince the world - so easily - that this guy was toast

I’m encouraged by the start too, but it’s 71 plate appearances.

As long as he’s healthy this is what he is. A very good baseball player. Every stretch of him being bad was always tied to an injury. I want him extended more than anyone.

 

He'll be traded for a couple of 18-year-olds in rookie ball, but it won't be because of money.

[CubinNY]

The Cubs know Bryant isn't going to re-sign with them. Why would he after the way he's been treated?

[Bryants Disco Ball]

The Cubs know Bryant isn't going to re-sign with them. Why would he after the way he's been treated?

 

Correction: They know he isn't going to re-sign with them for what they will be willing to offer. I'm confident he would re-sign with them if it was a good one.