Games Involving Former Cubs Megathread

[d_money]

lester has allowed the first 7 to reach in his cardinals debut

Thanks Jon!

[mias_tisg]

Outside of the HR, Baez has been pretty bad so far on the Mets. If he can't get it done there with the Lindor friendship and Cohen's deep pockets, I really think he's gonna struggle to get much on the open market. For sure less than he wants.

[squally1313]

Outside of the HR, Baez has been pretty bad so far on the Mets. If he can't get it done there with the Lindor friendship and Cohen's deep pockets, I really think he's gonna struggle to get much on the open market. For sure less than he wants.

It's been 4 games.

[mias_tisg]

Outside of the HR, Baez has been pretty bad so far on the Mets. If he can't get it done there with the Lindor friendship and Cohen's deep pockets, I really think he's gonna struggle to get much on the open market. For sure less than he wants.

It's been 4 games.

He's been the same player all year though granted he was hitting by the time the Cubs traded him which was awesome because it probably landed them PCA.

[TysonCBulls423]

I'm grateful this thread exists. Made me remember my old login from years back :)

[squally1313]

Outside of the HR, Baez has been pretty bad so far on the Mets. If he can't get it done there with the Lindor friendship and Cohen's deep pockets, I really think he's gonna struggle to get much on the open market. For sure less than he wants.

It's been 4 games.

He's been the same player all year though granted he was hitting by the time the Cubs traded him which was awesome because it probably landed them PCA.

I mean, no, he hasn't been. That's the thing about trying to draw any conclusions from four horsefeathering games. He was a 2 fWAR player on his way to a 3 win season. And he's one of the few players in baseball where you from a business perspective look beyond his statistical production. I don't know what he's going to get, but a single series worth of baseball games isn't going to have any impact whatsoever.

[CubinNY]

Javy did a Javy thing for the Mets and I almost cried.

[muntjack]

Yeah, watching that was gross.

[TysonCBulls423]

And now a go-ahead Javy Bomb. So hard to see in a different uniform #-o

[Outshined_One]

Javy did a Javy thing for the Mets and I almost cried.

 

For those of you who missed it:

 

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[17 Seconds]

0-5 with 5 k today

[PackLandVA]

Just Javy being Javy.

[d_money]

Strikeout king

[squally1313]

Yankee Legend Rizzo tests positive

[BigSlick]

Of horsefeathering course he does. It was only a matter of time when he decided against taking the vaccine.

 

horsefeathering hell man.

[17 Seconds]

eloy has 2 more home runs already tonight. things are going great.

[Cubswin11]

eloy has 2 more home runs already tonight. things are going great.

Maybe he’ll be a 2-3 win player some day over a 162 game season

[17 Seconds]

eloy has 2 more home runs already tonight. things are going great.

Maybe he’ll be a 2-3 win player some day over a 162 game season

 

if he plays 150 games hes going to be worth more than that

[Cubswin11]

eloy has 2 more home runs already tonight. things are going great.

Maybe he’ll be a 2-3 win player some day over a 162 game season

 

if he plays 150 games hes going to be worth more than that

He’s going to really have to hit because he’s a drain defensively or as a DH. Plus at this point he’s proven he can’t stay healthy as a position player, which becomes a skill at some point. Other than his power his other offensive skills don’t really jump off the chart. I’d be shocked if his peak is more than 3.5-4 WAR, which is plenty good but not a star, and I’d bet he’s more 1.5-2.5 type most years with injures and just not a great offensive profile.

 

To date he’s a .276/.319/.534 hitter with a ~5% walk rate and ~26% K rate and ~70% contact rate. That’s not overly special when the offense really needs to carry you and you’ve shown you can’t stay healthy. He’s probably a version of Castellanos as a very good outcome for him at this point, which, again is a fine outcome. However outside of this year Nick has never topped 3 WAR and has been able to stay healthier and probably is the better athlete since he came up a 3B (albeit a terrible one but had more positional versatility going down the value chart) while everyone knew Eloy coming up was always a fringe OF’er and DH was his destiny.

Edited August 10, 2021 by Cubswin11

[squally1313]

Look, when someone who played major league games for the cubs goes on a hot streak, it’s a fluke, and actually he sucks. If it’s someone else, just extrapolate the 4 HRs in two games to a full healthy season of ABs and figure out the math accordingly.

[17 Seconds]

we would all be completely in love with eloy if he were knocking these dingers for the cubs, admit it

[Cubswin11]

we would all be completely in love with eloy if he were knocking these dingers for the cubs, admit it

He would’ve killed himself going against the brick walls by now. And we’ve had similar heaters of Nick, Happ and Schwarbs going nuts before of similar players who end up being not overly valuable.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Bryant 0-3 on the night, dropping his SF line to 261/320/413. His last 7 games in particular have been awful.

 

Edit: now 277/333/426 after a single and a double

[UMFan83]

 

Lol what?

[17 Seconds]

baez/bryant/rizzo/kimbrel all have worse numbers with their new teams. kimbrel lost another one tonight and is starting to become their quintana.