JudasIscariotTheBird
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Yes, take away 1/3rd of your data to suit your narrative and squint he is the same player. It is as if someone here has a conclusion they want to reach. -
I didn't post OPS plus. I posted OPS. So yes, league-wide OPS whet up while Heyward's OPS WENT DOWN. Your hand waving jedi mind trick "mentally broken" quip as a way to dismiss his worst offensive season is ludicrous. It doesn't change the fact that he was a horrific hitter. His next two seasons were better, but still only on par or worse than his previous worst performance. He is clearly, without question, a worse hitter with the Cubs than he was previous. The other version of you that claims the Cubs broke him agrees with me.
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OPS 2010: 849 2011: 708 2012: 814 2013: 776 2014: 735 2015: 797 2016: 631 2017: 715 2018: 731 that doesnt say what you think it says It says EXACTLY what it says.
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Ah yes, all of the clear red flags and warning signs that the Cubs and all other teams willfully ignored that you and no one else noticed until he ended up being terrible, after the fact. I’d think it was a failure too if I believed that this FO and others saw serious, fatal flaws in a top FA and lined up to give him $180m+ with opt outs. I never said you can ignore all of the bad signings. Chatwood was a bad signing. Duensing was a bad signing. There are a lot of factors that go into evaluating a FO’s moves. Saying “wow that sucked and seems obvious now I can’t believe no one on Earth predicted that” or “lolz the Cubs signed him because he hit a big homer against us” is silly. dunno what to tell you man. the shoulder injury was well known and even in his cardinals season he didnt hit for any power. they obviously signed him because he was still young, had a pretty high floor given his defensive capabilities as long as he could be a slightly better than league average signing and they just went out and broke him. ...why are you simultaneously arguing the the Cubs broke him, but that he is the same hitter he always was?
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The idea that suddenly, all at once, the entire league discovered how to hit at the same time that Heyward signed with the Cubs, and that Heyward is hitting like he always has, is beyond lunacy. Stop it, please.
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Are you drunk today or something? RC+ 2010: 134 2011: 96 2012: 121 2013: 120 2014: 109 2015: 121 Signs with the Cubs 2016: 72 2017: 88 2018: 99 yes, the rest of the league adjusted, offense went up, and heyward stayed the same. OPS 2010: 849 2011: 708 2012: 814 2013: 776 2014: 735 2015: 797 2016: 631 2017: 715 2018: 731
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I would set the over under of baseball GMs that would have expected Heyward's offensive production to decline this much...or even at all, at 3, and they probably also suck as being baseball executives. The question was if Heyward's defense in the OF was worth the pricetag, not that his present hitting numbers were unsustainable. His offense hasn’t declined. Are you drunk today or something? RC+ 2010: 134 2011: 96 2012: 121 2013: 120 2014: 109 2015: 121 Signs with the Cubs 2016: 72 2017: 88 2018: 99
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The last few years of Dexter got so fun-bad. I stopped at season 5. All reports indicate I did the right thing.
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This is the process vs. results debate again. They weren't pulling a "smartest guys in the room" move -- they were aggressively pursuing a good free agent that other front offices (successful ones, by the way) also thought was a good free agent. This wasn't some market inefficiency/spin rate/4D chess thing: it just didn't work out and it sucks. the idea is that the cubs guys we expect to be smarter than people like me who were like hell yeah jason heyward! But they weren't, they were in fact dumber because they were the ones who actually gave money to the guy who can't slug more than 375 without a flukey high average. I would set the over under of baseball GMs that would have expected Heyward's offensive production to decline this much...or even at all, at 3, and they probably also suck as being baseball executives. The question was if Heyward's defense in the OF was worth the pricetag, not that his present hitting numbers were unsustainable.
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What in the world is that?!
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there is no way anyone on the cubs roster would interpret anything jon lester did after that performance as being uninterested in the outcome or whatever passan is alluding to. It's either someone else or passan is just making horsefeathers up. I'm confident Passan isn't making it up, and confident it's not Lester. I'm confident that I don't give a flying poo if the guy was checking out Billy Williams and his grandkids as Baez was tying the game. It does not matter.
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In this situation...
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Most of this makes sense apart from Bote in the OF. If he isn't playing 3B or 2B, his value is close to nil. Bote is the guy you want as the backup infield guy, though I don't know what he'd be like at SS. Prob not good.
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I don't feel like it should be too difficult to get someone who knows what reverse splits are while simultaniously being a cool guy to work with and realizes assult accusations are important, but this is baseball so maybe I'm wrong.
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We need a guy who can put the bat on the ball in clutch situations (to move runners over, to hit a sacrifice fly, etc.). I'm tired of watching batter after batter swing for the fences and then strike out with men in scoring position. We have too many all-or-nothing hitters. I'm fine with all-or-nothing. Its the nothing that we had too much of. Just give me more of the all. If you want more "clutch" contact, then sign Chili to a lifetime contract or something. Your take is horrible, if I didn't make it clear.
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I don't understand that either, but I can tolerate it. Thanks. It's fair to not understand it, but I just got really fatigued with this season. I just was not at all enjoying any of this. There were seasons when Sammy was on roids and hitting 60 dongs and we didn't go to the playoffs that were a lot more fun. And that's crazy to say. I accept being judged for this and also ridiculed. I'm just being honest with how I feel. Imagine taking this (and adding in that this was a 95 win team) and sending it to youself in 2012 or something. I honestly thing a lot of the doom and gloomers here enable each other and make things out to be horrific all the time. Now, September and everything after it was disgusting, but this team is still pretty damn good. I hope we get Harper and non-dumb managers and coaches out of this.
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I don't think you have to worry about Chili's return. But you should probably throw things anyhow.
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What about those who are not happy but relieved? I don't understand that either, but I can tolerate it.
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Everyone that is happy that the season is over is a spineless wuss and I want nothing to do with your selfhating nonsense.
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Not even in my wildest nightmares could I have have written the script to be this stupid.
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I mean....if you swing, SWING. Jesus.
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...is Heyward still the worst hitter in postseason history?
