I would have been perfectly content if jay had become another Holliday or a Longoria. He's been a disappointment.
I would have been perfectly content if jay had become another Holliday or a Longoria. He's been a disappointment.
Longoria has actually been on a downslide himself lately. Holliday is massively underrated; his contract is one of the few long-term blockbusters that actually has been worth it throughout.Originally Posted by Mutaman
“Every level he goes to, he is going to compete. They will know who he is at every level he goes to.” -- ED on EDLC
I just assumed Holliday would really regress after leaving Colorado. Shows what I know.
I understood it. Just saying that "perennial MVP candidate" wasn't the bar he needed to clear.
Just be a solid contributor. Don't look lost out there for months at a time. Give us more than a few weeks production each year.
And don't fall off a cliff when you're 27. Is that too much to ask?
Yeah, I kinda thought he would, too. Sure, he's never equaled those back-to-back years of 2006 and 2007, but he's been pretty darn good. Even as his power begins to wane in his mid 30's, he's still putting up well over .800 OPS.
“Every level he goes to, he is going to compete. They will know who he is at every level he goes to.” -- ED on EDLC
Ah. I thought you were saying he was saying he had been a candidate.
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Has collected a hit in 19% of his PA the last two years.
Rounding third and heading for home...
Was he on the same plane as the top vote-getters?
Did you think he had a chance in either of those years? Me, either.
I agree that he wasn't on the same plane as other top vote-getters, but I still think his standing those two years puts him as a candidate. One less slump, or one more of his patented hot streaks, and he could have been right up there. (Obviously too little, too late)
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The last 10 games he's at a .639 OPS, .167 average. Take away the two homer Sunday and there's basically nothing there in ten games of substance.
Why we are putting so much on the last week, ten days or month on a guy who is going on two years being a .200 hitter now, I don't quite understand. There's a serious problem here unfortunately. It's not going away. I can't believe people are really just shrugging and saying "what he's fine".
2009 Attendance Record: 3-5 2010 Attendance Record: 2-9 2015 Attendance Record: 2-0
2011 Attendance Record: 3-4 2012 Attendance Record: 3-4
2013 Attendance Record: 5-2 2014 Attendance Record: 3-1
REDREAD (06-16-2015)
I refuse to comment on this matter until JayBruce32 weighs in.
What ever happened to that guy?
Phil Castellini puts the FUN in Trust Fund.
*BaseClogger* (06-16-2015),Razor Shines (08-02-2015)
an why exactly should we take the two homer game away? doesn´t make since. Player A is really really bad, if you take his HR, his triples and his doubles away he is only a singles hitter...
I can understand that the past year of bruce was not what most expected (Jay himself is not happy with the results either), but I don´t get how his good games/weeks shouldn´t count.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
2015
CIN
.209 .320 .389 .709 0.2
Acceptable for a starting RF, or no?
"When financial success is attainable without on-field success, why rock the boat?"
No. But a week ago the OPS was .745, a couple of 0fers will do that.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
I don't think he's saying take the two homer game away, per se. You obviously can't. I took that as more a support for the "Jay is a .200 hitter now" idea, which I tend to agree with.
He's always been subject to crazy streaks, ups and downs. But his floor when he wasn't hitting bombs used to be at least league average. His floor at this point is essentially zero production.
The highs and lows of Jay Bruce used to average out to a very solid bat. These days the lows are too low and sustained, and the highs far too infrequent.
.671 over his last 792 PA
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REDREAD (06-16-2015)
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