David

did heyward get another hit (after HR)?

I'd tend to agree.

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.

an almora that can even be reasonably good at the plate is one of those insanely sneaky valuable players

cuba greys 4 lyfe

yeap

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.

the idea of keith law being seen as a cubs hater is hilariously insane the dude would eat theo's turds

You have that wrong with this team... They will lose to the Nuggest by double digits but somehow beat the Warriors. Lol

squarely in the middle of what? that'd be an amazing accomplishment by him. Yah what? That'd be a dream outcome for him.

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Addy bomb!

i feel like we never get this saladino bastard out

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http://i.imgur.com/ljinLVG.png?1 yeah you can barely tell this is the same guy! He hasn't really changed a thing. You don't have to be a hitting mechanic expert to see it. His hands start lower because in theory it's supposed to make it easier to create an upward swing plane. None of that matters when your hands go from that starting position to the exact same position they were going before. Yes, the Cubs know more about all of this than me. That Cubs related guy on twitter absolutely does not. The Cubs also have an interest in making it appear like their $185m free agent doesn't actually suck at hitting baseballs. Edit: In fact, Heyward looks even more jammed in the pic from this week than the one from the playoffs. lol yeah the cubs secret plan is convince everybody heyward doesn't suck for a couple months before the actual baseball games start! i'll definitely put more stock into your analysis of a still image from a swing early in spring training. in fact, hinske was working on him with nothing all offseason. he had all these obvious issues that all of us can plainly see in video clips and they basically made no progress on anything the whole time and then decided to have theo and joe lie about how it's all going. edit - let's be clear. i'm not saying he's definitely or even probably fixed. i'm saying i'm pretty sure none of us are qualified to say so. understanding baseball and understanding analytics and all that like many of us do is one thing. understanding the nuances of "biomechanics" and crap like that is much more specialized and i feel safe in saying that 99% of the general population has little to no clue what they're talking aboutl

KB with a hit...2 on no out for rizz

schwarb lines a single to right

My pick is "awesome." They look like awesome.

yeah i saw a clip of that play...pretty insane. where did he start on that?

Yeah, I said the same thing when the videos were posted showing off his 'new swing' a couple of months ago. His adjustments looked like they might actually exacerbate his issues. Hope we don't have to weather a .600 OPS from our full time RF. i'd just like to point out that i'm pretty sure our coaching staff and front office has a better idea of these things and if there were problems in the video from months ago that were that obvious, they probably know about them too. i'm not usually the defer to authority guy but jeez. when it comes to scouting type evaluations of mechanics and whatnot, i'll go ahead and trust them for now and wait and see what the results actually are. not to mention the fact that heyward has always looked like a huge goof at the plate and was only awful last year.

well, yeah, i'm not saying they shouldn't or i wouldn't.

huh? am i missing a joke?

yeah, i'm not even saying i'd be running to give JJ 3/45 or whatever...just that i'm pretty sure derwood doesn't realize that $15M aav in the nba isn't all that much.

when cardinal, giants, dodgers, and indians fans really find THIS particular team somehow hate-able, you realize how much bias there is involved in sports fandom.

Derwood doesn't "get" pro athlete salaries. Don't mind him. Lol, ok. If you think Redick is worth that % of the cap, knock yourself out. I don't don't look it up...do you know what the nba salary cap for 2017-18 is?