This seems like a good time and place to go on record in support of Schwarber. He had a 3 WAR year last year at 25, is only now getting consistent PAs vs. LHP (he's improved every year) and I think he has another level coming. Just my opinion.
This is even more amazing when you consider that he woke up on May 1st with a line of .263 .349 .408 Numbers since (65 PA) .107 .203 .143 For reference, Yu Darvish's career slugging is .169
Of the 17 highest wOBA in the NL, 5 of them are Cubs. That's pretty a pretty ridiculous ~30%. Only one trending downward is Heyward, who has 3 xbh in his past 21 games.
Schwarber has less than 200 career PAs against lefties. I guess that closes the book. The funniest thing to me is that he had a .352 OBP against them last year, so he was showing considerable improvement.
I remember it doing that during the lean years when Brenly said something to the effect of, "I can't believe this stupid horsefeathers " when referring to the team.
I love that we have a 24 yr. old world series hero who is going to hit 30 HRs in a down year and "people" are calling for him to be dealt. 2013 is long gone.
Yeah, I said the same thing when the videos were posted showing off his 'new swing' a couple of months ago. His adjustments looked like they might actually exacerbate his issues. Hope we don't have to weather a .600 OPS from our full time RF.