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I could not care less about this theory. If Pace gets the opportunity to move forward after his disappointing early results, he should do so only with the eye toward improvement, not appeasing idiots who can't stand Cutler and would be happy to suck w/o Cutler just as long as they do it w/o Cutler. Glennon is a plan designed for failure, but because you convince everybody a stopgap is a thing, then failure is accepted and he will not only live through that failure but also get to live through a prolonged development of the guy that replaces Glennon. Cutting Cutler and signing Glennon is a PR move, not a football one. It's a buffer that does nothing to make the team better. Jay's time has come and gone. He's also pretty injury prone at this point. Its conceivable Glennon IS a better QB in 2017 than Jay will be. Yeah, I think he probably is. Especially with Cutler's rotator cuff thing being a big question mark. It makes the one elite skill he has very questionable.
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I've talked myself into being OK with the Glennon thing. Highest PFF rated FA QB (other than Cousins), and I know that's damning with faint praise, but he's a competent player there. I liked him a couple years ago when he was starting for the Bucs, and then they had Winston fall in their laps.
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damn you brandon for fixing my intentionally broken link that i broke so it wouldn't embed and instead just be a link to the entire thread. (although yeah i probably could've just disabled bb code) Oh it was intentional? Yeah I did not get that. So you intended for people to have to copy and paste and then remove the space? That seems...inefficient. yes so that they'd see the entire thread, rather than posting/embedding like 12 tweets
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damn you brandon for fixing my intentionally broken link that i broke so it wouldn't embed and instead just be a link to the entire thread. (although yeah i probably could've just disabled bb code)
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this tweet thread is fun (and funny in some areas) htt ps://twitter.com/PoseidonsFist/status/839229347030532096
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[tweet]https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/839231794629103616[/tweet]
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yeah, he's always been a little bit of a red ass. although less so than lackey and in a much more likable way. it's that same attitude that got us this: [tweet] [/tweet] [tweet] [/tweet]
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It goes the other way too. With every bad AB suddenly everyone becomes a swing doctor and tries to pick apart his failures. The only thing that bothers me are the people actively rooting for him to fail because they want to be proven right in their opposition to his acquisition. i'm more annoyed at the people who were either against his acquisition (or the cards fans who were like good riddens) acting vindicated like last year was anything like heyward has been the rest of his career. he was a 26 year old coming off a very good year who cratered out of nowhere.
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funny but #truefact heyward actually hit 11% fewer grounders last year than he did the year before with STL, and his LD% (lol LD%) was a little over a percent higher. 1.39 gb/fb ratio compared to 2.44 the year before. imagine seeing that many more ground balls from him than he already had despite him having basically put up an .800 ops that year.
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nah actual hard contact >> those seeing eye singles even if it is ST i can barely even picture heyward with anything resembling hard contact last year outside of his 7 dongs, of which i remember only 2 of them and i can only assume the other 5 were heavily wind blown popups
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heyward lined one hard in his first ab [tweet] [/tweet]
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I like Gold Gloves and I cannot lie: the Jason Heyward thread
David replied to NOLA's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I understand the sarcasm, but at some point don't we need to be concerned? I know ST stats don't really matter, but I am worried this new/old swing isn't the change we needed. I think they should've completely revamped his swing instead of getting him to return to his old swing circa 2012-13. I'm no swing mechanics expert, but I still don't like how he looks so far in the batter's box. The bat speed is fine, but his timing is still off. It is better than last year but... It's too early to tell. Changing mechanics is not going to be something that sees immediate results. The difficulty is trusting that it will get better and sticking with it until it clicks. I haven't seen any ST games. Is Heyward grounding out weakly to second base like he's Juan Pierre? Your timing is a little funny...and I actually almost reposted this in here in case people weren't venturing into the game threads, but he was 0 for the spring while looking pretty bad until he cranked a dong and lined an oppo double yesterday. http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/69972428/v1231836283/chclaa-heyward-rips-a-tworun-double-to-left/?query=cubs - Double http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/69972428/v1231724783/chclaa-heyward-opens-scoring-with-long-home-run/?query=cubs - Dong -
Top 108 Moments for the 2016 Cubs (Now complete!)
David replied to bukie's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
i feel like tony has gotten kershaw a few times now siegrist 2.0 -
basically, what i'm saying is, heyward has always looked ugly. last year def more out of whack and obviously results were awful, but scouts have been talking crap about his swing and overall mechanics forever. so hopefully he can go back to being good at the plate again despite looking goofy, instead of looking a little more goofy and being very bad like last year. edit - here he is with the goofy footwork again, taking james russell deep http://m.mlb.com/video/v32792295/chcatl-heyward-adds-insurance-with-tworun-homer/?query=jason+heyward+braves+cubs+home+run
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That home run swing was still....weird. He looked like he rolled by ankles on the swing. Maybe not as pronounced, but 2012 Heyward doesn't look that much different to me http://m.mlb.com/video/v24710295/atlmil-heyward-homers-into-the-second-deck-in-right/?query=jason+heyward+2012+home+run Again, tho, it's still my stance that none of us is qualified to comment on these things
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For those (like me) who missed it: http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/69972428/v1231836283/chclaa-heyward-rips-a-tworun-double-to-left/?query=cubs - Double http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/69972428/v1231724783/chclaa-heyward-opens-scoring-with-long-home-run/?query=cubs - Dong
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like a legit well hit one or a grounder that bounced over a corner IF and made it down the line Legit we'll hit line drive to LF, against a LHP too yayyyyyyyyyyyy :bow: :bow:
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Double with bases loaded like a legit well hit one or a grounder that bounced over a corner IF and made it down the line
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did heyward get another hit (after HR)?
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I'd tend to agree.
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i was the pretty anti-1st round qb guy at first but between allen's red flags and this boring glennon talk, i think i can get pretty behind a trubisky pick at #3 if that's how it lines up.
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an almora that can even be reasonably good at the plate is one of those insanely sneaky valuable players
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Strop signs extension: thru '18 w/ '19 club option
David replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Top 108 Moments for the 2016 Cubs (Now complete!)
David replied to bukie's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Top 108 Moments for the 2016 Cubs (Now complete!)
David replied to bukie's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I cannot think of one moment that I can definitively say is from the 2011 season. I'm sure that if I looked up the season on B-R there would be a number of games I'd say 'oh i remember that' but 2010 thru the first 2 months of 2014 is one giant blur to me. Once the Cubs started going on that winning streak in late June 2014, Shark was traded and there started to be rumors of Javy coming up, everything comes back into focus. Here are 3: June 2011: Jim Hendry drafts Javier Baez with 1st round pick. Theo Epstein notices and realizes that the Cubs finally "get it" August 2011: Jim Hendry is fired October 2011: Theo Epstein is named President of Baseball Operations and he names Jed Hoyer as GM My mind is pretty fuzzy in my old age, but weren't there reports that Jim Hendry was "relieved of duty" several months before he was fired, and had nothing to do with the Javy pick? Maybe they asked Theo who he wanted? quite the opposite. hendry oversaw that draft and stayed on board to sign all the picks even though he had already been informed that he'd be let go. as for the theo quip, i'm pretty sure theo would never have picked baez. pretty sure the story out there is that they had no idea what to make of him and were scared off by his volatility.
