There were these shaky cell phone videos of him w the cubs after he rebuilt his swing for the hundredth time where he’s taking BP and crushing balls down by his ankles and i remember feeling so happy for him that he had finally figured it out.
Fun player when he was on
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 9 August 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
he might have earned his cubs salary by pumping the team back up during the rain delay of world series game 7
― na (NA), Tuesday, 9 August 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
i was convinced dude was going to be a hall of famer!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 9 August 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
u mad
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
he put up 6.4 bWAR as a 20yo!
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
always interesting to me to look at the JAWS of ~good~ players -- heyward obviously isn't a hall-of-famer, but he's just under 40 bWAR through his age-32 season (today's his 33rd birthday)
JAWS has him as the 55th-best right-fielder of all-time. and that's really really good!
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
he was never a slam dunk case, but when he signed with the cubs he was only 26 and he had already racked up 25 fWAR. i was disappointed at the time that he didn't sign with the cardinals. i thought that he was young enough that a long, 8 year contract would still be worth it for his defense alone. i thought his floor was as a 3 WAR kind of player, with superb defense more than making up for what would probably be mediocre to slightly above average offense production. but that turned out to be more like his ceiling, and it got worse from there.
https://i.imgur.com/8pFoEbP.png
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/checking-in-on-the-aging-curve/
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 9 August 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
xp and yes, jason heyward is an exceptional baseball player, especially in comparison to normal people, but also in comparison to almost all of his peers
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 9 August 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
braves sign 21-year-old michael harris II, who has played one season of double-A ball and 71 MLB games, to an 8-year, $72 million extension
― na (NA), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 13:21 (one year ago) link
Makes me wonder if Swanson is a goner after this year.
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link