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Aaron Kennelly

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  1. Aaron Kennelly
    I found footage of Brian Cashman, when Theo called him to break the news:
  2. Aaron Kennelly
    Montgomery induces a metric horsefeathers ton of ground balls, too. I think he'll enjoy pitching in front of our infield.
  3. Aaron Kennelly
    Well, he was getting told that he gets to leave Iowa to go play in the major leagues, so I'm sure he wasn't too upset.
  4. Aaron Kennelly
    For everyone that realizes that Vogelbach is a fat DH who has only shown power once he got to the Pacific Coast League, a big, youngish lefty arm that was once one of the top pitching prospects in baseball, that can flip back and forth from the pen and start maybe, with tons of years of control left... it's a nice return. I would gamble there is a very significant chance he's tried out as a starter to start 2017. I would hope that would be our intent, given that we chose to trade for him. Obviously, they like something about him. The pen is always a fall back, too, though. And that's fine, too. If he were able to start for us, then this is a home run. If it's not, then, oh well, as long as he is a solid long-term pen option, we made out alright. But, yeah, it seems like what was mentioned in that Fangraphs piece. He's a guy to help the pen this year, but has control and starting aspirations in the future.
  5. Aaron Kennelly
    I'm sure Cashman will find another 50 home run hitter from some other team.
  6. Aaron Kennelly
    Tough luck for Fat Boy to be sent to the hitting paradise known as Safeco Field.
  7. Aaron Kennelly
    For everyone that realizes that Vogelbach is a fat DH who has only shown power once he got to the Pacific Coast League, a big, youngish lefty arm that was once one of the top pitching prospects in baseball, that can flip back and forth from the pen and start maybe, with tons of years of control left... it's a nice return.
  8. Aaron Kennelly
    I've seen talk about them dealing Cishek maybe. I can't think of much else that makes sense.
  9. Aaron Kennelly
    Rizzo, after that catch, to Javy:
  10. Aaron Kennelly
    Yes, I would have the same response. And it's not to say he hasn't been bad. Clearly, he has. But, to be hung up on it is silly, when the underlying numbers say he's been about the same all year, and he's just been incredibly streaky. Yeah that's fair, and your response above makes sense. If it can be explained away by mostly luck, it doesn't provide much. It's not even so much that it is just bad luck. I think he's had problems. It's just that guys go through this horsefeathers. It wasn't my intent to say that his last month or two doesn't mean anything. It does. He hasn't hit. So that's bad. My intent was to show, "Hey, even Anthony Rizzo (possibly the best hitter in all of baseball) goes through this horsefeathers sometimes. So let's not dwell on it too much.
  11. Aaron Kennelly
    Now to pick on you, but just so you know, I'm sure at some point in May you were posting something like this about Anthony Rizzo. So that kinda shows why arbitrary endpoints are stupid, and why people think you are too obsessed with them. Out of curiosity, since you're better at this than I am, if he would have gone with 'Zobrist is hitting some terrible batting average over the last 150 (or whatever the number is) PAs'....would you have the same comment? I get that picking a random date, even the beginning/end of month, can lead to a lot of false/cherry picked conclusions, but at a certain point you have to acknowledge that it's 6 or 7 weeks of bad performance, right? Yes, I would have the same response. And it's not to say he hasn't been bad. Clearly, he has. But, to be hung up on it is silly, when the underlying numbers say he's been about the same all year, and he's just been incredibly streaky.
  12. Aaron Kennelly
    Now to pick on you, but just so you know, I'm sure at some point in May you were posting something like this about Anthony Rizzo. So that kinda shows why arbitrary endpoints are stupid, and why people think you are too obsessed with them. to be fair, even while Rizzo was sub-Mendoza Line, he was still OPSing like .900 Yeah, I know. And I'm not saying Ben Zobrist hasn't been bad. He has been. But all his periphs look fine -- his BB and K rates, his hard- and soft-hit rates, and his line drive, ground ball, and fly ball rates. It's just that he went from a .432 BABIP in May to a .050 BABIP in July. It just shows why arbitrary endpoints are stupid. He had an incredible May and a putrid July. But, he's not really a different player. It's just baseball.
  13. Aaron Kennelly
    Now to pick on you, but just so you know, I'm sure at some point in May you were posting something like this about Anthony Rizzo. So that kinda shows why arbitrary endpoints are stupid, and why people think you are too obsessed with them.
  14. Aaron Kennelly
    Rizzo!
  15. Aaron Kennelly
    J-Hey!
  16. Aaron Kennelly
    Hendricks is putting on a clinic today.
  17. Aaron Kennelly
    Damn, Kyle.
  18. Aaron Kennelly
    Nice.
  19. Aaron Kennelly
    Hell yes, Addi. Great AB.
  20. Aaron Kennelly
    What's Fat Man doing walking guys?
  21. Aaron Kennelly
    Do something, Heyward.
  22. Aaron Kennelly
    Good inning from our ace.
  23. Aaron Kennelly
    Jake was good. Don't even care about the rest.
  24. Aaron Kennelly
    UGH
  25. Aaron Kennelly
    Ninnies, one and all.
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