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  1. David
    It was an abysmal contact rate. He figured it out, but let's not pretend it was never in question. It was never in question. This is a huge understatement; your position here is MASSIVELY aided by hindsight. But OK.
  2. David
    It was an abysmal contact rate. He figured it out, but let's not pretend it was never in question. the only question was whether he would just be a really good player or an MVP caliber player lol ok.
  3. David
    It was an abysmal contact rate. He figured it out, but let's not pretend it was never in question.
  4. David
    When our players develop in significant ways at the big league level, it's far more the exception than the norm and probably a testament to the guys we have and the development staff we have all the way up and down, but - again - he wasn't wrong about that in general. That is actually very context dependent. While it is *fairly* true as a generality, it doesn't take long to look around at the young players in MLB to say that it is very far from a hard and fast rule. For every Trout, there are several like Machado. Sure, but given how good Bryant already was, it was fairly safe to say that he wouldn't get much better (because there's not much room for growth from what he already was) in any tangible way...have better seasons? Yeah, sure that's baseball and player performance varies from year to year, but actually be a better player? Pretty questionable. If he had come in and just been OK and shown flashes, then maybe, but there's not a whole lot of room to be better than a 6.6 win(in 150 games) player. Just so happens (and it looks like this actually happened late last year), KB closed a hole in his swing and actually got better in a meaningful way.
  5. David
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVe6QivxqCo
  6. David
    kyle doesn't post here anymore so you dont need to suck his dick every time someone makes fun of him now Wait where did he go? he lives in california now and not iowa or whatever the horsefeathers hell hole so he probably has other things to do than be a pain in the ass on a message board (or there's just nothing to complain about) i guess, assuming he doesn't have a desk job like most of us.
  7. David
    It's not like he was wrong that it was a concern. Bryant just fixed it. kyle doesn't post here anymore so you dont need to suck his dick every time someone makes fun of him now lol? yeah, nevermind, sorry, kyle was completely wrong to worry about bryant's contact rate and defensive scouting reports coming up. MEA CULPA.
  8. David
    It's not like he was wrong that it was a concern. Bryant just fixed it. It was more him saying that players are coming into MLB fully formed these days (and peaking earlier than ever) and that it was likely that what we saw in Bryant his rookie year was all that he'd ever be. When our players develop in significant ways at the big league level, it's far more the exception than the norm and probably a testament to the guys we have and the development staff we have all the way up and down, but - again - he wasn't wrong about that in general.
  9. David
    It's not like he was wrong that it was a concern. Bryant just fixed it.
  10. David
    Damn it. I knew it would be the case, but it's confirmed now. I'm gonna be at the Kanye concert during game 2 of the NLDS...assuming we're the night game. If not, I'll be pregaming during the Cubs game, which would be sort of fun, actually.l
  11. David
    Russell probably shouldn't have been an all star. Definitely not a starter.
  12. David
    Didn't I say this in the first post of this thread (or at least somewhere on the first page)
  13. David
    the DH will be for georgie
  14. David
    yeahhhhhhhhhhhh CJ
  15. David
    i see you CJ
  16. David
    Both at .299 it seems rizzo just hit .301
  17. David
    is addy finally over .250 btw? looks so much nicer than .24x
  18. David
    rizzo's average over .300, which isn't that big a deal but is fun
  19. David
    addy wouldn't let him
  20. David
    wil myers about to make this a save situation
  21. David
    travis wood = still bad
  22. David
    niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
  23. David
    YESS GRIMMER NICE
  24. David
    where was that?
  25. David
    AND THEY horsefeathering PLAYED LEDBETTER TONIGHT SDFJ:LSDFJR :(
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