Kris Bryant

[Bama]

Not sure what Trout has to do with Bryant. Trout hit .220 in forty games in 2011 so his situation was totally different.

[GetALife]

Getting back to Kris Bryant...I wonder.how the Cub fans would feel if they finished a half game out of making the playoffs and Bryant didn't come up for 2 weeks..You would think that his bat would change the outcome of at least one of the losses of the first two weeks.....I don't think its fair to the fans if that happened..Just my 2 cents worth

Stan

The Angels kept Mike Trout down for 20 games in 2012. They went 6-14 without him and 83-59 after his recall. They missed the wild card by four games.

And who knows they could have started the year 6-14 with him!

[Yah Mule]

The Angels kept Mike Trout down for 20 games in 2012. They went 6-14 without him and 83-59 after his recall. They missed the wild card by four games.

A 8-10 WAR player like Trout means you influence an extra win about once every two or three weeks. Wouldn't have been a factor for the Angels.

As roto players, we know stats, even WAR, aren't distributed uniformly like that throughout the year. What about the impact adding a player like Trout has on an entire team ? The Angels lost eight of 8 of 10 right before Trout arrived and then they won 7 of 10 when he was inserted in the lineup.

[Yah Mule]

Not sure what Trout has to do with Bryant. Trout hit .220 in forty games in 2011 so his situation was totally different.

Stan's point was about a team keeping a player who is obviously ready down to accrue service time at the start of a season and it costing them a playoff berth. Bryant was ready to be promoted last summer, too. Chances are good he would have hit better than .220 because he was 22 last year, not a 19 year old like Trout was in 2011.

[Captain Hook]

Newest wrinkle to the Bryant>Cubs<Boros war of words (could be worlds too) is the announcement that tomorrow Bryant will start taking balls in the outfield - if he does well there and both Joe Maddon and Bryant think that might well be the case it will at least elminate the ... "his defense at third base isn't ready" noise

also rumors that Boros and the Cubs are trying to work out a deal for a contrac that would make that seventh year consideration moot

[Deadheadz]

Newest wrinkle to the Bryant>Cubs<Boros war of words (could be worlds too) is the announcement that tomorrow Bryant will start taking balls in the outfield - if he does well there and both Joe Maddon and Bryant think that might well be the case it will at least elminate the ... "his defense at third base isn't ready" noise

But then it gives them ample reason to say "we're going to give Bryant 2-3 weeks of playing OF at AAA to be sure he can handle it."

Sneaky


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[CALI CARTEL]

Bryant was taken at #15 (2.03) overall in my OL last night, but the guy called for help and they took him off the board for Bautista instead; he ended up going 5.11 instead, which kinda strange since the guy who originally took him passed on him at 5.10.