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  1. BigSlick
    Dont give up hits to AL pitchers
  2. BigSlick
    I require more runs
  3. BigSlick
    I feel good about Lackey day because the White Sox are a bad team
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. BigSlick
    I want Addison Russell and Javier Baez playing infield on this team for the next 10 years
  7. BigSlick
    I'm really pretty ok with Strop-Rondon-Chapman as the back of the pen Really really ok with it
  8. BigSlick
    This pitcher is so bad even Jason Hayward is getting hits
  9. BigSlick
    Run differential game
  10. BigSlick
    I just watched Baez's dong and its the best Hanger-and-Banger I've ever seen. Javy got every single inch of that ball.
  11. BigSlick
    This team is very good at scoring runs late, I'll give em that
  12. BigSlick
    I feel like I haven't see the Cubs score a run before the 6th inning in a week
  13. BigSlick
    That 2008 team was behind in the division in late July? I have no recollection of this OH i See, this is about their relation to the current team
  14. BigSlick
    I love the accusations of our ~nefarious agenda~ you know, the agenda of not liking domestic violence
  15. BigSlick
    4 hits, damn
  16. BigSlick
    ....
  17. BigSlick
    This is exquisite pain
  18. BigSlick
    It's weird, they're still playing like .600 ball since the break, but maybe its because I'm a spoiled brat baby I've found most of the games very tough to watch. Yesterday being a double nads punch might have played into that.
  19. BigSlick
    Ahhh...the moral compromising the team has to do to accommodate Chapman isn't great.
  20. BigSlick
    at the very least Arrieta didn't get a loss, i guess
  21. BigSlick
    wow thats a kick in the nads
  22. BigSlick
    oh good something call "JB Shuck" reaches base
  23. BigSlick
    Come on Hayward, just duplicate that double from earlier
  24. BigSlick
    Gimme a danger and a W
  25. BigSlick
    Oh wow, lol
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