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So for some reason in my head, I've always compared Schwarber and Conforto, probably because keith law kept [expletive] on schwarber in the minors and fawning over conforto. They're a pretty good illustration why none of us know anything and nothing matters. They're both the same age (Scwharbs is a whole 4 days younger,) same position, swing from the same side etc. So Schwarber hits AA and AAA in 2015 and goes bananas, posting a WOBA of .461 and .444. Conforto reaches AA that year and posts a WOBA of .405. So I'm feeling justified, like ok, Kyle is a better pure hitter, great! Then they both get called up and play roughly the same amount of games (69 for schwarber nice) and 55 for Conforto. They post identical 1.9 WAR. Schwarber is heavily offense while Conforto is more balanced. OK well, they're equals, whatever! 2016 is a lost regular season for Schwarber, but Conforto plays 109 games and is ass — .724 OPS, negative in the field, less than 1 WAR. Schwarber comes back and crushes the postseason and I'm feeling justified again. Sure he missed the regular season but he's such a pure hitter he can dominate the best AL team even while looking like Bartolo Colon and not having swung at live pitching for 7 months! Then 2017 happens and Schwarber is lost for most of the year, hits a lot of bombs but looks lost in LF most of the year and strikes out way too much. He was better after his callup but meanwhile Conforto is on pace for a 6 WAR season before his injury. horsefeathers! I was wrong! Now we're 1/8th of the way through 2018 and Schwarbs is on pace for a 5 WAR season while Conforto is just sitting at the plate afraid to swing (something like 45 percent of his plate appearances end in a walk or a strikeout.) Anyway, I don't know horsefeathers except I love dongs, and my man Kyle is leading in that category no matter if he's fat or skinny or good or bad.

Those kind of Baez-Lindor interactions are the best

amazing

Angels owe Albert Pujols something like $27m a year through 2022 and he's so bad right now that Luis Valbuena (.651 OPS) is playing first base. edit: sidenote: Im watching angels-astros and it's infuriating how good verlander is now/again

Pssshh, imagine this entire Cubs offense playing in Coors for 81 home games. They would easily score 900+ runs every season lol. Whoever thought it was a good idea to play baseball in Denver was either really high or really dumb. Denver is an amazing city and that ballpark is beautiful so respectfully disagree.

http://www.chicagonow.com/look-back-chicago/2018/04/bankes-coffee-stores-the-starbucks-of-early-20th-century-chicago/

i know that javy is just having his hot streak at the beginning of the season and will cool off eventually and enter a brutal cold streak. But im enjoying 2016 NLCS Baez while he's here. Any growth at all and he could be a 4-win player. that's huge.

Man that really fucked Sammy up too I think

maybe we give almora a couple days off

jesus christ almora

Jim Edmonds? it always felt like edmonds did it on purpose (maybe my cubs bias showing) while that really seemed like it pushed almora to the breaking point. like nuts and bolts were flying off him like a fast and the furious car.

lol almora almost died "running" to a catch with a 79 percent catch probability

my worst horsefeathering nightmare. take my life, but leave bryant alone

What if it turns out almora is actually good

Almost, my dude.

Darvish is way hotter than Bryant.

Also a stark contrast between how unsexy last year was. Man, he was so fucked up. Be my big, sexy dongsmith and not that other guy, Kyle. crazy thing about 2017 was kyle never looked right. even after he came back up and got regular playing time, every at bat looked like a challenge. And he still hit 30 bombs. If there's actually more packed away in there, it's crazy to think about what he could do

Whip of like 2

imagine being a pitcher and throwing a sharp breaking ball down and away and seeing javy spit on it lol

Finally found our white Lenny harris

how do you let that pitch go by lmao

pardon me?

I once saw him hit a grand slam. i was super pissed off at my wife about something during that game, and i was watching it on my laptop in the kitchen while cooking when he hit that granny. it officially ended the fighte

super javy

does anyone have a memory of addison russell getting a hit