Hairyducked Idiot
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the phrasing I seem to recall is he did everything well, except for trouble making contact, which Cubs people insisted they could fix. I'm reminded of that Sports Night scene where one of the anchors keeps lauding all the personal and professional characteristics of a recently cut kicker, while the other just keeps rebutting with "Can't kick."
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It is interesting that his minor league BABIP was also .346, but I think that supports my point. Some loss of BABIP when facing the best defenders in baseball is to be expected. Which is what we've seen, his MLB career BABIP is now .334 after almost 1700 PAs.
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That one seems sustainable.
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You're right. It's an established fact that Castro was never going to be able to sustain a .345 BABIP, despite strong evidence to the contrary. So when you are projecting his numbers for 2013, you think using a .345 BABIP will be the most accurate prediction?
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You think? With Castro's ability to make contact and put the ball in play he seems like a guy who will be able to sustain a higher BABIP. Maybe not .340-.350 high, but he's down to almost .300 this year. I'd think he should be able to settle in about .320 or so. No? That's just Kyle being Kyle. He has sustained very high BABIPs at every level of baseball and he sustained around .345 for like 1221 PA (actually more, because he was up there for the first couple of months of this year, too, IIRC). No, it's Kyle being right. There's no magic law that says you can't have positive variance two seasons in a row. I don't think .300 is going to sustain itself either. His true, long-term ability will probably end up somewhere in the middle. I could even buy .330.
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Has it been reported at all that they have tried to get him to change his approach to have more patience/see more pitches? And now he's just entirely messed up. He still has zero patience. He came up right after a walk tonight and I told everyone sitting by me that I'd bet them $20 that he swings at the first pitch. He does, and flies out to CF. So predictable. Like Truffle said, I'm very concerned about his lack of progression this season. That's not exactly true. He just hasn't been hitting so you haven't noticed, but his walk rate is up and his IsoD in that period is .062. That'd lead to a pretty decent OBP if he weren't hitting .197. His BABIP is also down about .040 points compared to 2010-2011 while his LD, GB, and FB % are all right around his career averages. I think that says more about his BABIP from 2010-11 than this year. .345 was never going to be sustainable for him.
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I'm not so much concerned as I am already convinced that he can't.
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Yes.
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Again, Corey >>>>>>> Brett I'd be delighted if Jackson could end up doing what Corey did. Not only should we get down on our knees and thank the great Andre Dawson in heaven if Jackson ever approaches Patterson's value in his cost-controlled years, the two had utterly different batting styles.
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Really loving this Cabrera kid. We were due for someone like that to emerge.
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The Brett Jackson thing is certainly amusing.
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Walk breaks the streak. But who knows, this new one could be even longer.
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We're at 6, right? The record for a position player is apparently 9.
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Call your shot-Minor League Hitters(Stolen from TT)
Hairyducked Idiot replied to davell's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I don't think I did that bad. Other than not realizing how conservative the new regime would be with last year's draftees and Torreyes' BABIP variance. -
We do still have the long term prognosis of this rotation, though: Garza Vizcaino Shark Wood rookie so don't despair too much. Our long-term prognosis includes two guys who are out with elbow injuries and a hole that we don't know how we intend to fill. That's cause for a bit of despair.
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I just listened to his interview on the Score from earlier today. He was quite annoyed that this story has blown back up in his face. What'd he say? At this point, I really wonder if he even had a source or juat threw some [expletive] at the wall. He said that in the post-trade deadline press conference, he asked Theo point blank if Dempster was allowed to listen in on the phone calls to the Dodgers and Theo said "Some things are better left unsaid". He was saying that several other reporters got the same impression after the PC (but he didnt name any). He also said on the Score last Friday, Jed actually said that Dempster was "listening in" and kept asking the guys to find the tape. They did play the tape earlier in the day and Jed did use those exact words. Oh and he strongly implied that Jed tore him a new one after the story came out and Theo flatly denied the story being true. So in other words Epstein didn't say yes and Sullivan thought it was okay to print it anyway. He deserves all the blowback he's getting and then some, idiot.
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They are quite possibly as different as two Cubs left-handed CF prospects could be.
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I wonder what the record for consecutive brettjacksons is. He also struck out looking in his last PA on Sunday.
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no, one definitely doesn't gotta think that. It was a bad gamble. But the fact that it failed doesn't mean that. Bad gambles can win and good gambles can lose.
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Pitching injuries are rarely just what the first diagnosis claims.
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I have a really hard time calling almost any pitcher core. They are too fickle.
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How about the guy that's younger than all three of them? Yeah, how do people keep forgetting about him? Plus Shark, Wood, Cabrera, Beliveau, Russell, Wellington Castillo, Clevenger... there are a ton of you guys worth watching right now. It's going to be very hard to keep pulling off the "young guys did well but we still lost" gambit, but it needs to be done. I'm already annoyed that we're merely in the No. 3 pick position, but it could easily get worse with a good stretch here.
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Paul Maholm and Reed Johnson say "hi."
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2013 Draft Discussion
Hairyducked Idiot replied to seattlecub's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I'm just really having trouble imagining a draft where there's enough falling talent to make it worth it. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-5-12
Hairyducked Idiot replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I was wondering if I should get concerned that he didn't have enough of those.