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Cubs calling up Zagunis who's been having a breakout season in AAA. Wonder how much of this is about helping Schwarber and how much off it is showing of Zagunis as a possible trade chip.
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It's probably about trying to win the division and Schwarber certainly isn't helping the team win games at this point in time.
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Jun 22, 2017 17:40
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Schwarbs is my boy and I hate to see him sent down but it's for the best. Frankly not surprising seeing as except for 4 games and a pH appearance in the ws he didn't face ml pitching for an entire year. If he didn't have the ws he had he'd have started there. BigBallChunkyTime fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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Jun 22, 2017 17:48
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ShortThug posted:Schwarber sent down. Starting to smell a little...busty in here.
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Sydin posted:Cubs calling up Zagunis who's been having a breakout season in AAA. Wonder how much of this is about helping Schwarber and how much off it is showing of Zagunis as a possible trade chip. I imagine there's a healthy amount of "Well, this guy's 24 years old and still in AAA, might as well see what he's got" in there.
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Jun 22, 2017 17:59
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Timby posted:I imagine there's a healthy amount of "Well, this guy's 24 years old and still in AAA, might as well see what he's got" in there. I like the part where he has more walks in AAA this season so far than Javy Baez does in his MLB career
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Jun 22, 2017 18:03
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Probably a lot of "hey this guy gets on base at an extraordinary rate at all the levels he has been at" too. I wouldn't really call it a breakout season, as he did pretty much the same thing OPS wise in 2016 as well. Also he was a 3rd round draft pick, so he is obviously highly thought of with the Cubs. Also, 24 years old isn't "old" for AAA. Also he's the Cubs 6th ranked prospect.
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Jun 22, 2017 18:04
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Can someone who is smarter at Baseball explain to me what is going on with Kyle Schwarber? His K% and BB% are all in line with his 2015 numbers, except his BABIP is 100 points lower. His iso is also considerably lower, but if he can't hit the ball into play, that would explain that a bit too. Is he just being shiftted to death or what?
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Jun 22, 2017 18:07
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Paul Zuvella posted:Can someone who is smarter at Baseball explain to me what is going on with Kyle Schwarber? His K% and BB% are all in line with his 2015 numbers, except his BABIP is 100 points lower. His iso is also considerably lower, but if he can't hit the ball into play, that would explain that a bit too. Is he just being shiftted to death or what? He seems to be getting under the ball more. Going from 2015, his ground ball rate is exactly the same. His flyballs are up 5%, and line drives are down 5%, and his infield fly balls have gone from 7% to 14%. Just seems like he's popping the ball up a lot more. His SO and BB/K are nearly identical from 2015. This is actually a good time to evaluate because in 2015 he had 273 PA, right now he's at 261, so pretty close. Edit: He's also pulling the ball about 2% less than 2015, but it could be that teams weren't shifting on him back then. I don't really remember.
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Paul Zuvella posted:Can someone who is smarter at Baseball explain to me what is going on with Kyle Schwarber? His K% and BB% are all in line with his 2015 numbers, except his BABIP is 100 points lower. His iso is also considerably lower, but if he can't hit the ball into play, that would explain that a bit too. Is he just being shiftted to death or what? My guess is he's tried to adjust his swing to try and go the other way to beat the shift but in doing so he's making a lot more bad contact than he used to, resulting in more popups and harmless fly balls to left-center (nb I haven't watched him that much this season so this is mainly from Fangraphs numbers).
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Jun 22, 2017 18:19
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Armitage posted:Puig pimping out his homer is #2000 on the list of things the Mets need to worry about. *goes back in time to 1 minute before posting in the Meet The Teams thread to show myself this post*
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https://twitter.com/SamMillerBB/status/877904060724125697 Fun ridiculous tidbit from that piece: ZIPS gives Bellinger a 54% chance of hitting 500 home runs. That is absurd.
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ShortThug posted:Schwarber sent down. Beeeeeffeeeeeeeyyyyyy Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
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Thom P. Tiers posted:Probably a lot of "hey this guy gets on base at an extraordinary rate at all the levels he has been at" too. I wouldn't really call it a breakout season, as he did pretty much the same thing OPS wise in 2016 as well. Also he was a 3rd round draft pick, so he is obviously highly thought of with the Cubs. Also, 24 years old isn't "old" for AAA. Also he's the Cubs 6th ranked prospect. All good points, the first article I read about him today seemed to imply he was having a power breakout, but his SLG/OPS are indeed inline with what he did in AAA last year so w/e. Paul Zuvella posted:Can someone who is smarter at Baseball explain to me what is going on with Kyle Schwarber? His K% and BB% are all in line with his 2015 numbers, except his BABIP is 100 points lower. His iso is also considerably lower, but if he can't hit the ball into play, that would explain that a bit too. Is he just being shiftted to death or what? The shift is certainly part of it. He beat the shift in 2015 mostly by pounding balls through it very hard, but looking at fangraphs his Hard Contact% is down (32% vs 39.7% in 2015) and his Soft Contact% is up (22.4% vs 15.4%) which makes it really hard to beat the shift on the ground. The other thing though is that Kyle's 2015 numbers are inflated a bit by his hot start. He went 15-69 (~.217 AVG) from September 1st to the season's end and really, really struggled against LHP, which is more in line with what we've seen this season. He was stupidly good in the Cubs two previous post seasons though, and since he was knocked out of the 2016 regular season more or less immediately his post season results stick out the most.
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Bird in a Blender posted:He seems to be getting under the ball more. Going from 2015, his ground ball rate is exactly the same. His flyballs are up 5%, and line drives are down 5%, and his infield fly balls have gone from 7% to 14%. Just seems like he's popping the ball up a lot more. His SO and BB/K are nearly identical from 2015. This is actually a good time to evaluate because in 2015 he had 273 PA, right now he's at 261, so pretty close. He's also swinging for the fences almost every time he goes up to the plate. Especially after he came out of the gate struggling, he very clearly started pressing and it's resulted in some incredibly ugly swings.
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Sydin posted:He was stupidly good in the Cubs two previous post seasons though, and since he was knocked out of the 2016 regular season more or less immediately his post season results stick out the most. He has 50 career postseason ABs. His postseason numbers are literally meaningless.
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^^^ I'm aware of that, I'm saying that for fans (and sadly maybe for the FO too) the thing that stuck out the most going into this year was his post season success, because he's had so little regular season playing time. Timby posted:He's also swinging for the fences almost every time he goes up to the plate. This applies to the entire lineup.
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Jun 22, 2017 18:33
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ShortThug posted:Schwarber sent down. He'll soon be back, and with greater numbers.
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Jun 22, 2017 18:34
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The Berzerker posted:Until this afternoon josh donaldson not playing.
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Jun 22, 2017 18:37
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Schwarber's Scale posted:He'll soon be back, and with greater numbers.
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The Walrus posted:josh donaldson not playing. He was in the lineup to DH, when did they scratch him? Edit: oh, poo poo. https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/877939622503776256
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Sydin posted:He was stupidly good in the Cubs two previous post seasons though, and since he was knocked out of the 2016 regular season more or less immediately his post season results stick out the most. Stupidly good as in he hit 6 singles and a double in the WS last year? He certainly did mash in the 15 PA's he got against PIT and STL though.
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shadok posted:He was in the lineup to DH, when did they scratch him? I've got a five dollar bet going that the jays go the entire season under .500 to somewhat temper my inevitable disappointment each time they fail to hit that mark.
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This is intense speculation but everything about Schwarber's numbers suggests that pitchers are giving him more high hard stuff and he's not been effectively catching up to it. Is there data to support this theory?
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bewbies posted:This is intense speculation but everything about Schwarber's numbers suggests that pitchers are giving him more high hard stuff and he's not been effectively catching up to it. Is there data to support this theory? The high fastball has been killing the Cubs all season. Cubs have a lot of good low ball hitters, Happ and Schwarber in particular crush pitches low in the zone but can't catch up to high heat to save their lives. It's this year's version of the low and away slider.
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bewbies posted:This is intense speculation but everything about Schwarber's numbers suggests that pitchers are giving him more high hard stuff and he's not been effectively catching up to it. Is there data to support this theory? 2017:  2015:  He's still getting plenty of stuff out of the plate, though.
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bewbies posted:This is intense speculation but everything about Schwarber's numbers suggests that pitchers are giving him more high hard stuff and he's not been effectively catching up to it. Is there data to support this theory? His pitch types seen are almost exactly the same as in 2015 so he's not seeing many more fastballs, though they might be a lot higher in the zone than they were before. His pitch values are down across the board, with the exception of curveballs, which does suggest that any adjustment he's made is helping him hit lower, breaking pitches but possibly hurting his ability to hit high fastballs.
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ComposerGuy posted:Is Mike Fiers good now? My eyes tell me he's at least above average of late, but it's hard to trust it. He has now officially been really good for the same number of games as he was really bad to start the season Kevlar v2.0 posted:He'll soon be back, and with greater numbers. Nice Intruder fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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I will miss Stephen Vogt, even though he is bad now. I hope he lands with a contender and becomes good again for them.
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bawfuls posted:Tonight, Yoenis Cespedes lectured Yasiel Puig about pimping/admiring a home run for too long. I'm sick of people lecturing Puig.
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Yoenis Cespedes is just racist against Cubaaaaahhhgggghhhhggh
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bawfuls posted:https://twitter.com/SamMillerBB/status/877904060724125697 My brain is nowhere near ready to think about this.
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I want this same article but for Aaron Judge
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My main joy in watching baseball for about 25 years, was watching pitchers. I know they have always been a whiny mass of phobias who live in mortal terror of the serious arm damage they're all going to inevitably get. I know it has always been the case that a lot of them are poo poo-stupid. These are things I just accepted about them. But when did it become the case that bat flip/watch HR=bad, and DISRESPECTING THE GAME MISTER, but happy fistpumping stomp-walking off the mound while screaming for joy after a big strikeout was their inalienable right? Especially when strikeouts WAY outnumber home runs? And when the pitcher always has and always will enjoy a much larger degree of success than the hitter, in the duel? Because at some point, they have collectively turned into a bunch of whiny twats. I got no more sympathy for blown elbow ligaments, line-drive fractured skulls, or anything that ever happens to them. gently caress every one of them forever. They are a disgrace and I wish TJ surgery didn't exist so every single one of them could spend the rest of their lives living in depression about not being to lift their arm high enough to comb their hair, before finally committing suicide.
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Hey Astros fans how interested are you in trading for Hunter Strickland? He has a 2.08 ERA and 26 SO in 26 IP but some Royals players homered off of him in 2014 so watch out
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If he were a LHP I'd say yes, he and McCann would get along
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Carlosologist posted:I want this same article but for Aaron Judge
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It would be cool to watch his whole career if it went on that track but I can't with good conscience root for someone to knock Barrold off of the top of the heap
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MrMojok posted:My main joy in watching baseball for about 25 years, was watching pitchers. I know they have always been a whiny mass of phobias who live in mortal terror of the serious arm damage they're all going to inevitably get. I know it has always been the case that a lot of them are poo poo-stupid. These are things I just accepted about them. As a fellow lifelong baseball fan and lover of pitching, who has spent his entire life listening to retired pitchers talk and watching current pitchers act I'm pretty sure its always been the case that pitchers are hypocritical self righteous assholes who think you should never watch a 450 ft home run to see if it leaves the stadium but think its totally ok to but a 95 MPH fastball under a batter's chin if he offends you. But they probably got more sensitive when ESPN started putting the home runs in Top 10 highlight reels and absolutely intolerable when people started to just get phone updates of video of pitchers getting owned that they can watch over and over again.
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Pitchers get a billion times more emotional than hitters when coming out ahead in a big moment so it's hilarious that they get so pissed off at bat flips and watching homeruns e: Like that video of Scherzer cursing out the batter under his breath before the pitch is him being a high intensity gamer, if a batter was doing the same and the pitcher noticed he gets a fastball in the earhole (Make no mistake, I think that Scherzer thing owns) Intruder fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Jun 23, 2017 |
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