Random Baseball Musings
- Leroy
- a bad penny always turns up
- Posts: 25112
- Joined: April 17 06, 12:27 pm
- Location: Hanging out with my redneck, white socks and Blue Ribbon beer.
- Contact:
Re: Random Baseball Musings
Somehow that popped up on my Facebook account so I read it. Good work. Big fan of his.
- sighyoung
- Mayor of GRB
- Posts: 37618
- Joined: April 17 06, 7:42 pm
- Location: Louisville
Re: Random Baseball Musings
Thank you: it's a very good article.HardcoreCardsFan wrote: ↑December 28 22, 2:25 pmPretty proud of this article I wrote about the career of Brian Jordan. It’s gotten some decent traction, too: https://redbirdrants.com/posts/wrong-p ... gn51z5ak5f
- sighyoung
- Mayor of GRB
- Posts: 37618
- Joined: April 17 06, 7:42 pm
- Location: Louisville
- Leroy
- a bad penny always turns up
- Posts: 25112
- Joined: April 17 06, 12:27 pm
- Location: Hanging out with my redneck, white socks and Blue Ribbon beer.
- Contact:
Re: Random Baseball Musings
Maybe this has been noted, but it is the first I had heard that Chuck Carr passed away. I was pretty excited when he went to St. Louis.
https://www.mlb.com/news/chuck-carr-dies
https://www.mlb.com/news/chuck-carr-dies
- sighyoung
- Mayor of GRB
- Posts: 37618
- Joined: April 17 06, 7:42 pm
- Location: Louisville
- Radbird
- There's someone in my head but it's not me
- Posts: 57440
- Joined: April 18 06, 5:08 pm
- Location: LF Bleachers @ Busch II
Re: Random Baseball Musings
That was fun to watch. Thanks, sigh.
- MrCrowesGarden
- 'Burb Boy
- Posts: 23631
- Joined: July 9 06, 11:33 am
- Location: Out of the Loop
Re: Random Baseball Musings
Maybe Lars can be the guy we hoped DC would be.
- Big Amoco Sign
- Master of Hyperbole
- Posts: 14402
- Joined: December 1 17, 11:05 am
Re: Random Baseball Musings
DC feels like a victim of dead ball. Guy just doesn't hit very hard, I am not sure where his slugging came from in AA/AAA unless it was the juiced ball. But if all he is is Dexter Fowler, you take that over most alternatives.
Nootbaar's dedication to perfecting his swing and Jeff Albert seemed like a match made in heaven. Hope Turner Ward carries that on. But I do hope they're looking at more "hit clinic" specialists to put in the clubhouse.
- GeddyWrox
- Caught you a delicious bass
- Posts: 12947
- Joined: April 20 06, 8:43 pm
- Location: Please use blue font for the sarcasm impaired.
Re: Random Baseball Musings
That Aaron at-bat was cool!
- haltz
- Hall Of Famer
- Posts: 22034
- Joined: November 9 06, 6:45 am
- Location: a proud midwestern metropolis
Re: Random Baseball Musings
He hits a good amount of fly balls and 26 HR in mostly AA, hitter friendly at that, followed up with 18 in the bigs a couple years later sounds about right. He's got the launch angle but just doesn't hit the ball all that hard. Kind of like the mediocre version of Matt Carpenter. He's young enough to figure it out but MLB power hitters and really all good MLB hitters hit the ball hard. He's consistently bottom of the barrel in exit velo. Or in other words, it's not necessarily the baseball, 380' fly balls work at Hammons but you get mixed results in the major leagues.Big Amoco Sign wrote: ↑January 3 23, 10:06 amDC feels like a victim of dead ball. Guy just doesn't hit very hard, I am not sure where his slugging came from in AA/AAA unless it was the juiced ball. But if all he is is Dexter Fowler, you take that over most alternatives.