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  1. Aaron Kennelly
    Eloy is going to be such a beast. I'll be following him with the same fervor that I was for Bryant, Schwarber, et al. And I have high hopes for Butler. I know I shouldn't. I know it's not realistic to expect us to Arrieta whoever we want. But I really liked that pick up. Hopefully we keep seeing more of that from him.
  2. Aaron Kennelly
    Yep. We are now just looking for the Jason Heyward that hit .275 or so with 15-18 homers and made everybody say, "Wow, this guy could be a monster, hitting 30-some homers, if his swing wasn't so ugly." I suppose we can give up on the hope of him ever figuring it all out and being an absolute monster. But, maybe, just maybe he doesn't have to be completely horrendous. Pretty please.
  3. Aaron Kennelly
    the only thing i can think of is that he actually buys into his own horsefeathers about inspiring people and he thinks his awfulness is a net-positive somehow. "Look, maybe I don't make it, and that's ok, because that little boy out there" etc The whole "Tim Tebow saved someone at a baseball game by laying hands on them" BS is kind of a perfect microcosm of this. The Mets are probably just trying to save on medical bills since they'll be able to have Tebow's magic hands treat their entire pitching staff instead of James Andrews'.
  4. Aaron Kennelly
    I think his swing looks better. Granted, it still looks ugly. But I like what's going on with the upper half, particularly his hands. It's a lot quieter. His bottom half still looks really ugly. I don't think there are quite as many moving parts, like last year when his limbs were flying in every which direction. So it's not quite as ugly... maybe? But I don't see how he can derive power from this still ugly-as-hell swing, that homer notwithstanding. I guess we'll just have to see how it goes. God bless his heart for that rain delay speech.
  5. Aaron Kennelly
    I've sworn off watching baseball games this year, so as to not be reminded of that terrible, no-good World Series championship.
  6. Aaron Kennelly
    Fly the W!
  7. Aaron Kennelly
    Ah, spring training. A pop up surrounded by three guys with numbers in the 80s.
  8. Aaron Kennelly
    Yeah, I like that idea a lot. Let them work it out during the season. Keep both of their innings down. Keep Montgomery fresh and try to keep Anderson healthy. If another pitcher goes down for a couple weeks, you can slide one of them in and it would be a reasonably easy transition. And if things go according to plan, we will have a large lead in the division and we'll be able to do these things without feeling any pressure or desperation.
  9. Aaron Kennelly
    What a weird article though...they're acting like "oh, a bad inning just happened to happen then"...as if that wasn't the culmination of blowing a 3-1 lead in the series. But being able to explain that stuff away to yourself is, I'm sure, a key component to being successful in sports. Nothing against Bryan Shaw, who's a really solid pitcher, but, yes, a bad inning did have to happen right there. The Indians had rode Corey Kluber, Andrew Miller, and Cody Allen all the way to Game 7. And they'd already run out of those guys to use. This was bound to happen. Their biggest mistake was in coming back and merely tying the game instead of taking the lead. There was no saving their season. There was no redemption. There was only Bryan Shaw.
  10. Aaron Kennelly
    It's going to be really fun when Contreras and Russell are .850 OPS monsters and we don't have anywhere we can move them up.
  11. Aaron Kennelly
    Yeah, the 2016 core of Rondon/Strop/Grimm/Edwards all being under control through 2018(and only Rondon not being under control for 2019) goes a long way to keep the bullpen from descending to a bad place. Yep. Just from mapping out the bullpen and the future, whenever I looked at Cot's Contracts I was always slightly dismayed that Strop didn't line up with Rondon on free agency. Obviously, we are in a good spot with all the young guys around for a long time. But it's settling to have a buffer for a couple years before we have to completely re-tool the bullpen.
  12. Aaron Kennelly
    Me too. Zobrist seems perfect for that spot. But, whatever... I don't really care. As long as the good guys go up as quickly as possible, I don't care too much on what order they bat.
  13. Aaron Kennelly
    Yeah, that's a good deal. The club option is a nice touch, too. Bullpens alter so rapidly that it doesn't really matter, but it's good to know we have him for another year to provide stability, if he's healthy. And you get that stability without having to give numerous years to a veteran free agent.
  14. Aaron Kennelly
    jon lesTer HEctor rondon justIN grimm kyle henDrIcks rob zAstryzNy pedro Strop eddie ButLEr Wade dAvis jack leaTHeRsich jakE arriEta brett andersON mikE montgomery john LackEy cArl eDwards
  15. Aaron Kennelly
    He'll put one on top of the LF video board this year.
  16. Aaron Kennelly
    We have our very own Drake LaRoche. Hopefully KB doesn't act accordingly when Seal Boy is cut.
  17. Aaron Kennelly
    It comes as very little surprise that the Cards fan from Pekin, IL thinks this, considering he lives in a town that's high school nickname was the Pekin Chinks until the 1980s.
  18. Aaron Kennelly
    Last year was kinda fun.
  19. Aaron Kennelly
    Who plays the RP/LF role this year?
  20. Aaron Kennelly
    Tough break. At least the rest of their rotation is in tip-top shape...
  21. Aaron Kennelly
    I would agree with you, except that the Cubs' staffs have been very healthy the past few years. So I think they've found something deeper than that. My guess is that they've found that there's no such thing as a "perfect" delivery and tweaking a natural delivery either increases injury risk or keeps it neutral. It could be a little of both, too. Like, if they plan on making a $100+ million commitment on a guy, they are going to do it with a guy they've somehow identified as more likely to stay healthy. But, knowing that not everyone is Jon Lester, they would rather a guy feel comfortable and give him every opportunity to perform his best, without constantly worrying about something they know they can't fully control.
  22. Aaron Kennelly
    It was really jarring to see a photo of Hendricks girly legs (no offense) and then Jake's manly legs in the next photo "Best shape of his life."
  23. Aaron Kennelly
    I like the Dewees-Mills trade. I'm not terribly high on Dewees. He just doesn't hit enough for me. No power. And he's already 23. And his arm is really, really bad. He's not a guy that I'm ever going to be even slightly upset about losing. The upside isn't there. I don't know much about Mills, but I've read some nice things on him since the trade. Regardless, it isn't so much about adding him as it is about adding anyone. I think we did a nice job this off-season of adding some decent options at Iowa. Our pitching depth at the higher levels was completely barren. Iowa had nothing. And now we have a little something. It's not much, but it's something.
  24. Aaron Kennelly
    I'm late to this. But I share what most everyone here and elsewhere have said. This is the dumbest idea. I don't understand why people care so much about the length of baseball games. I mean, sure, some games go on too long. And I'm all for cutting out stuff like Pedro Baez's existence. But, there's a point where I stop caring about the length of games, and it's somewhere well before this point. The unrelenting desire to cut games down by a minute-and-a-half or two... it just confounds me. Obviously nobody already sitting through 162 (or thereabouts) marathon games every summer cares. And the people that aren't watching games aren't going to be persuaded to give baseball a chance if the games are 3 minutes shorter. They are fighting a battle that doesn't exist.
  25. Aaron Kennelly
    couldn't decide what was more weird...that or that she still hasn't seen the grand slam Not much time to go to Denny's when she is working double shifts at Waffle House and Chili's.
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