Aaron_Kennelly
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It's interesting. I think I like that idea the most. KB has been really good when he's played in the outfield. And Zobrist is horrible out there. Yet, Zobrist has played second very well. Before all the injuries and sucking, I was all for that. And I think I still am. You lose the Javy/Russell DP dynamic. But it's probably the best way to deploy the skills of all of those guys. I don't see them going that way, though.
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I do think it's worth it. Heyward's bat is gone. We tried to let him play through it in the post-season last year and he OPS'd .307. No amount of defense is making up for that. Heyward's actually done alright lately. But it's all singles. I was just looking at things, and over his last 20 or so games he's done alright. He's been more patient and is walking more. And he's got his BA up, but it's all because of BABIP. He's hit a lot more line drives. And line drive rate is fluky and unstable. His average exit velocity in that time is 83 mph. It was 84 mph for that month before that when he hit like .200/.260/.290. He just has no power. He started off the year as a different guy than last year. He was actually hitting the ball hard. I don't know if it was the injury or what. But he fell back into his old habits. And now he's the exact same guy he was last year. He might be able to BABIP his way to respectability for a few weeks. But when those singles quit falling in, he is worthless. When Zobrist was still struggling, I would have been fine with going with the glove. But Zobrist looks like he's all the way back to normal at this point. And we're too deep and talented to be playing Heyward -- defense be damned.
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Not to mention Heyward is playing tonight too. Yeah. He needs to go to the bench with Jay when Russell comes back. He's just bad. He has no power and there's no hope in him finding it this year. Zobrist becomes your RF. Heyward comes in and plays defense late. I haven't been too critical of who's playing, because we've scored a ton of runs since the break. And we've had guys out, which has affected our depth. But with guys getting healthy, and Zobrist coming to life, no more. horsefeathering park them on the bench if they can't hit. I don't think this is a dire situation or anything like that. We have 6 guys that are gonna hit well over 20 homers. Plus Russell, who has that in him if he's healthy. And we have some great platoon-type guys like La Stella and Almora. It's just that it's time to buckle down and quit horsefeathering around.
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Yeah, he can still help us out. He's not a bad player. It' just that we have better players and they need to start. And he's the type of guy that can help out in different ways.
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And that goes back to starting Davis. If you're wasting one spot in the order... not a huge deal. We won 103 games and a World Series playing Jason Heyward every day, after all. But, if you are going to go with Davis, you have to get the rest of the trash out of there.
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I know my Davis take didn't go over well. And I'm not a huge fan of it either with Avila sitting on the bench. It's probably incredibly stupid. But your first big league start ever is a different animal. There's sure to be some serious nerves. It could help having a guy you know back there. Also, if they have the quickest of hooks -- which they should -- Davis might not even bat. Basically, if things are going well, Tseng stays in and the Cubs have a lead. If not, they both come out and we get Avila in there. What I really don't understand is Jon Jay playing. (And Heyward, for that matter.) Jay was brought in to provide some stability since we didn't know what we had in center. He did a fine job. He lived up to expectations. He helped us out plenty along the way. But he's not very good. And we have two rookies that are both better than him defensively in center. One has a .919 OPS against lefties. The other has an .862 OPS against righties. We don't need Jay to start games any more. We have better options. He's got like a .620 OPS in the second-half to top things off. He needs to be a bench bat. Period. Quit horsefeathering starting him.
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Honestly, it doesn't bother me too much. I imagine Davis and Tseng will be yanked with the quickness at the first sign of trouble. Davis is probably better than Mike Freeman -- which obviously isn't saying much. But he's plenty capable of getting a hit or two. And if they think it helps Tseng to have that familiarity, it might be worth it. The whole Tseng idea itself is a wee bit crazy. But, pairing him with Davis isn't the craziest thing ever.
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Might as well let Big Cat play second.
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I pretty much ignore Barstool sports and don't really know anything about them. Why does everyone hate them? I want to be mad online too. Long story short the site promotes a pretty ugly misogynistic agenda, especially from its followers. Its founder is an enormous pro-trump douche and all over awful guy. Big cat is a huge jock sniffer. More recently a boston barstool guy wrote about "keeping your politics out of the stadium" with regards to the racism conversation. Which makes this even more frustrating with all of the misogyny and racism that is prevalent in the sport of baseball. Get a horsefeathering clue, Cubs. Stop being so bad.
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Yeah. I haven't had a rewatch in a long time. I don't think I've ever rewatched the series all the way through. I've seen the first few seasons a bunch of times. But without doing a full rewatch, I haven't seen the early episodes in a long time.
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Sounds good to me. I'm going to start posting a lot more if I know I have free likes coming my way.
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http://www.sharegif.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mad-men-gifmad-men-quotesjon-hamm.gif - said no one ever about Julianna Zobrist.
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PTR in October of 2011
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He is transforming into the Dunn-bot. I know last night they hit but Happ, Schwarber and Heyward at bats make me sad. Ian Happ has an .847 OPS.
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He just reached base 4 times yesterday and homered.
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I think Theo might have had the correct read on how bad this team is when he devised the Tseng plan to try to get Monty in the pen for St. Louis.
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Jon's piling up the quality starts lately. Next one he's going to try to walk 10 guys.
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Willson is such a stud. Schwarber-like return. Misses a month, plays a couple innings of rookie ball, comes back and reaches in 5 of his first 7 PA.
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I'm dumb. 3-2 count with two out. Pitcher got tagged and almost gave up the out by thinking the inning was over though. Suarez grand slam. 6-0 reds Hell yes. Cards are a much bigger worry than the Brewers anyway.
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Rizzo! Hell of a PA.
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Don't listen to Gary, Javy. Just go.