2017 Spring Training Thread

[BimboColesHair]

View: https://twitter.com/MLBastian/status/833033381524836352


Movin' on up...

View: https://twitter.com/MLBastian/status/833071062862557184

 

[DJTJ]

I drove past the Cubs facility last week. Who was waiting to turn left into the players parking lot last week and received two middle fingers?

Kris Bryant.

 

[Huber.]

I drove past the Cubs facility last week. Who was waiting to turn left into the players parking lot last week and received two middle fingers?

Kris Bryant.

You should have offered to buy him a drink.

 

[Huber.]

View: https://twitter.com/MLBastian/status/833416229805174785

 

[AZ_]

Spoiler

Kluber will be the Opening Day starter

 

[sportscoach]

View: https://twitter.com/MLBastian/status/833416229805174785

Right now I highly doubt he won't be the opening day starter, but he is also stating with Kluber being a veteran and him having such a workload, he is making sure he ready for the season and will start him later in the season (aka skip his turn in the rotation) if he feels he needs a bit more rest. It will be no issue honestly at the end of the day.

 

[BimboColesHair]

View: https://twitter.com/ZackMeisel/status/833742183400304640


Just seeing him in the batters box tracking pitches feels so damn good...

 

[macbdog]

I drove past the Cubs facility last week. Who was waiting to turn left into the players parking lot last week and received two middle fingers?

Kris Bryant.

Meanwhile a janitor at the Cubs facility is wondering why he got double deuced by some random guy driving by...

 

[DJTJ]

Meanwhile a janitor at the Cubs facility is wondering why he got double deuced by some random guy driving by...

I swear on my life it's him. I've looked through dozens of photos to confirm.

 

[macbdog]

I swear on my life it's him. I've looked through dozens of photos to confirm.

Ice looked through many of his photos too. Had the same dreamy eyes? Winning smile? Sexy facial hair? Chiseled chin?

 

[MirORich]

 

[sportscoach]

Does anyone know anything about him as a writer or information on the site itself?

 

[Adrenochrome]

Since you aren't someone who will insult me if I do this...at least I don't think you will...

Can I ask you why? What has been said/reported that makes it seem he like won't be the same player again?

I get the concerns about health moving forward, re-injury risk, workload...but where is the loss of talent/skill belief coming from from people?

I'm not aware of any reports saying Brantley won't be the same player again, I just keep having visions of Jeff Bagwell and Pronk, guys who had similar injury issues and were never able to recover fully because of weakness in the injured areas.

So hopefully this is just a case of me being a Cleveland fan and always expecting the worst, even though I shouldn't do that anymore after witnessing last year's NBA finals.

 

[Derek]

I'm not aware of any reports saying Brantley won't be the same player again, I just keep having visions of Jeff Bagwell and Pronk, guys who had similar injury issues and were never able to recover fully because of weakness in the injured areas.

So hopefully this is just a case of me being a Cleveland fan and always expecting the worst, even though I shouldn't do that anymore after witnessing last year's NBA finals.

Besides the fact that they missed games, I don't really see how Bagwell's chronic arthritis (that left him disabled, and unable to actually throw a baseball), and Pronk's back, knee, abdomen, hand, ankle, and shoulder injuries are similar to Brantley's situation.

 

[sportscoach]

I'm not aware of any reports saying Brantley won't be the same player again, I just keep having visions of Jeff Bagwell and Pronk, guys who had similar injury issues and were never able to recover fully because of weakness in the injured areas.

So hopefully this is just a case of me being a Cleveland fan and always expecting the worst, even though I shouldn't do that anymore after witnessing last year's NBA finals.

The issue is we have no clue who Brantley will be going forward. I doubt he will be an all star this season, but as long as he is out there he will at least productive, but we don't know until the season starts who we have.