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This is the thread where we talk about how awesome Kris Bryant is
sneakypower replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
now look at Javy and check it twice -
This is the thread where we talk about how awesome Kris Bryant is
sneakypower replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Something like those good Troy Glaus years that he's been comped at before hold pretty well still. He'll sneak a .300 season or three in. I actually thought I made a comment about how we're not talking enough about Bryant shaving almost 10%(!!!) off his rookie K rate. Guess not, but the guy is a legit monster. we're really not talking enough about the whole team basically shaving like 10% off their K rate; it's a scary prospect to consider -
it's drake fyi
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it looks like Ross hasn't given up a dong yet
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there are some good signs there: he's really improved his discipline from where it was last year (mostly disastrous) to acceptable levels and he seems to have added loft to his swing now and is hitting a lot more fly balls; he was never going to make it as an empty batting average guy so you can see the gains his fellow expatriate has made and it's not unforeseeable to imagine him as a similar type of power bat but you hope he will be less of a total black hole in the field, and this is perhaps sanguine...i don't close the book on it because we've seen coaching/instruction do immense amounts of good in helping player performance (Fowler, Bryant, Russell) greatly outpace their reputation and i still don't know how he ended up on 2nd after Bryant's ball hit off the wall the other day (eventually costing a run) Yeah, him seemingly adding some serious TOOTBLAN tendencies to his game kinda quells any hope I have for him to make up for his deficiencies via his bat. It's, like, "damn, dude, you already suck defensively, but now you gotta suck at THIS, too?" It feels like he's got to REALLY hit well to offset how stank he is at everything else. well, you never know...
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there are some good signs there: he's really improved his discipline from where it was last year (mostly disastrous) to acceptable levels and he seems to have added loft to his swing now and is hitting a lot more fly balls; he was never going to make it as an empty batting average guy so you can see the gains his fellow expatriate Yasmany Tomas has made and it's not unforeseeable to imagine him as a similar type of power bat but you hope he will be less of a complete liability in the field, and this is perhaps sanguine...i don't close the book on it because we've seen coaching/instruction do immense amounts of good in helping player performance (Fowler, Bryant, Russell) greatly outpace a player's reputation and i still don't know how he ended up on 2nd after Bryant's ball hit off the wall the other day (eventually costing a run)
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Len wants you to know the Cubs are good (a/k/a the Len thread)
sneakypower replied to Brian's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Len Kasper @LenKasper Lead majors in ERA, runs per game, advanced defense, advanced base-running, reigning Manager of the Year, best Broadcast Booth. It's pretty stunning. ftfy len -
i think he's been the best hitter in baseball so far; the players who've outperformed him so far have had crazy amounts of good fortune, which is of course normal for a monthly sample leaderboard Daniel Murphy (.471 wOBA): .110 above career BABIP Aledmys Diaz (.462): [self-explanatory] Manny Machado (.457): .070 above career BABIP, 10% over his career HR/FB rate Dexter Fowler (.452): .080 above career BABIP Ryan Braun (.441): .070 above career BABIP Jose Altuve (.439): 21%! over his career HR/FB rate and Rizzo (.434): .060 below career BABIP, 7% over his career HR/FB rate (still just 22nd-highest in MLB) also perhaps it's worth noting if Grichuk doesn't rob his HR, he's currently at .271/.412/.677 (.437 wOBA)
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he's gotta be aiming for some kind of "most bodies at 1B" record
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.430 wOBA with .214 BABIP is not to be believed
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goodness gracious, Rizzo is locked in
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creeping sharia
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i think Pirates ultimately switch it up & put Glasnow on the hill for that one and Syndergaard as Mets WC starter seems likeliest (Cardinals i'm sure would still trot old cagey broken Waino over STD Distributor)
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Tunsil's hacker is the new Becky with the Good Hair will we ever know the truth??
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http://m.mets.mlb.com/news/article/125219330/jim-duquette-constructing-the-perfect-cubs-mets-trade
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What? Wasn't the whole point of Zobrist that he can move around and Maddon previously used him by moving him around? It's a little late in the game for him to stop being okay with moving around. more of the point with Zobrist is that he's an OBP machine that provides value in myriad ways, one of which might be the now occasional position shift
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http://www.espnfc.us/blog/five-aside/77/post/2863760/the-numbers-behind-leicester-city-premier-league-title Jesus.
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2016 HR Derby :: Discussion + Transaction Thread
sneakypower replied to Southpaw19's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
soon the entire top tier will be just those that had faith in Park -
i do not consider this to be true this is insulting; for his career, Russell is +21 UZR/150, better than every other SS in baseball during that span...yes, Javy might theoretically make for a better SS except for all the errors he would sure to make
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what if Schwarber is Zack
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well he's lost out on about the last few dozen recruiting battles and i was still [ThisisFine.jpg], thinking we can just be Wisconsin or (now) Iowa with 4-year players developing into a complex offensive system, but now that's not even a possibility with these mass exoduses and seniors being replaced with an empty folding chair frustrating.
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and Kam Chatman's probably out the door too so really, who even cares anymore
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Spike Albrecht to Purdue; seems a sizable upgrade for them at PG if he can play
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he & Ed Harris next to him must have had quite the night
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what's the procedure for players not in the system? just declare them here & they're off-limits til next amateur draft?
