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  1. BigSlick
    Ugh getting Brian Matusz to watch on my birthday and not the ~Ace of the Chicago Cubs~ would be super disappointing
  2. BigSlick
    That was real bad Jason
  3. BigSlick
    Seriously? The first hard hit ball right to the outfielder? Alright whatever
  4. BigSlick
    Love me some Superhero Mode Arrieta He'll hit a homer too just for fun
  5. BigSlick
    I knew I shouldn't have said anything because immediately afterwards Jakes threw 6 straight balls
  6. BigSlick
    Oh my, Jake is looking absolutely killer today
  7. BigSlick
    Well...that's a start
  8. BigSlick
    Heywards swing on the donger looked good, he pulled a ball that was way up and tailing to the outside of the plate and knocked it out of there. Youre not gonna get that many complete meatballs to hit, but the way he's swung this year he hasn't even done that to BP quality fastballs, so it's a tiny bit encouraging
  9. BigSlick
    For a day where his control is clearly not all there Lester is still striking out fools
  10. BigSlick
    You were really showing a lot of loyalty to keep him on your team that long
  11. BigSlick
    No way
  12. BigSlick
    Niiiiiiice My own irrational superstitions claims that the KB-Baez-Russell dong day has fixed the offense and now we're back to pounding fools
  13. BigSlick
    Maddon vindicated! Sorta!
  14. BigSlick
    I like this bullpen now.
  15. BigSlick
    A good start
  16. BigSlick
    Not....ideal
  17. BigSlick
    I still demand additional runs, but by god do I love the feeling of having Strop-Rondon-Chapman
  18. BigSlick
    Yeah Strop
  19. BigSlick
    Dont give up hits to AL pitchers
  20. BigSlick
    I require more runs
  21. BigSlick
    I feel good about Lackey day because the White Sox are a bad team
  22. BigSlick
    I'm never going to feel completely comfortable with Javy because his approach is so, so bad, but he's such a naturally talented athlete that he's a joy to watch. I said before in the gamethread that I want him and Russell playing infield for us for the next 10 years. He's also going to be the guy that I'm gonna shake my head at a few dozen times a season for swinging at junk, and that likely wont change. But my god that monstrous home run he hit last night was delicious.
  23. BigSlick
    I think its possible there's a huge confluence of bad luck that just happened to strike Heyward all at the same time, along with pitcher's adjusting to his swing and him not hitting the ball with the same authority. If you look at his batted ball percentages there isn't too much going on dramatically. His flyball percentages are up from last year but down from the previous 4 years with the Braves. The line drives (however broadly or vaguely defined) are where they are and as folks pointed out, he's been exceptionally unlucky on those. More importantly, his HR/FB% is 4.7%, which is one third his career rate. If that was normalized he'd probably still be having a disappointing offensive year, but it wouldn't be nearly as dramatic as it has been. But should he have more home runs? I don't know, I mean, completely anecdotally, I don't recall many long flyballs that Heyward has hit that have been caught on the warning track or whatever. But that is far from scientific, I'm sure there are more sophisticated measures of flyballs that I wouldn't know how to read anyway out there.
  24. BigSlick
    I want Addison Russell and Javier Baez playing infield on this team for the next 10 years
  25. BigSlick
    I'm really pretty ok with Strop-Rondon-Chapman as the back of the pen Really really ok with it
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