He needs to be MUCH better...and once again, I am not even talking about the production and numbers. He needs better AB's...that was some really bad stuff.

LOL a couple of cheapies, but still dude looks like he's gonna rake. If I'm a GM I only draft hitters without necks.

LOL a couple of cheapies, but still dude looks like he's gonna rake. If I'm a GM I only draft hitters without necks.

Cheapies? He had one infield single, the other 3 were solid. Hard hit ball down the line...tough play for a first baseman. The other two were well hit groundball singles.

There will be times where it looks like Schwarber should probably be a full-time DH. But it makes so much sense when you see how much Epstein’s front office values college position players at the top of the draft (and fears the injury risks associated with pitchers).

“We were able to really go into that room and turn off the outside influence,” amateur scouting director Matt Dorey recalled. “We just really (challenged) each other about who we felt was the best player for that pick, and for the Cubs, and where we were going.

“Once we were able to kind of strip away the static and get that out of our vision, we were able to listen to our area scout — (Stan Zielinski) — who’s one of the best scouts on our staff. He’s been doing it forever.

“Stan was as convicted as I’ve ever heard him talking about this player, and this person, and how it aligned with our philosophy moving forward.

“So I’m not surprised with (how) he’s competed and how he’s performed with the bat. I guess the best surprise for us is just how well he’s caught on with the instruction to develop behind the plate.”

Well hit groundballs

All the Cubs great successes over the years are attributable to well hit groundballs and towering line drives.

I'm going to start counting the Sox's hard hit ground balls right at people as hits.

I'm going to start counting the Sox's hard hit ground balls right at people as hits.

I am going to have re-figure Hawg Ass Jr.'s batting average with hard hit ground balls factored in.

Since they are hits, they are already factored in.

Not according to the Cubbie Awesomeness Hit Factor, hard hit ground balls are factored in higher.

High BABIP is only used to discredit Tyler Flowers.

What are you talking about?

Don't be a tool.

Hatchetman said that his hits were cheapies. I refuted that.

But do you really want to equate infield dribblers and popups that fall down the lines with hard hit balls? Sure, they affect the batting average the same, but really?

It just seems very Cubbieish to me with all of the balloons being tossed at this organization.

How is Shwarbers minor league strike out ratio. He passes the eye test for one game but I just don't want to discover he is another Baez.

Pretty White Soxish to bitch and moan about it.

Except Hawg isn't a Sox fan. It's not just Sox fans who find the premature celebration of multiple Cub championships to be absurd. It's every other fanbase in baseball.

I don't waste my time with the Cubs.