Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
One Post wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
One Post wrote:
The time to give someone the outright CF job is when they are 23 years old with 110 plate appearances in the major leagues?
Maybe you haven't been paying attention. We're not in the steroid era anymore. When is this great first round pick going to be worthy of a starting job? When he's 28 and his career is beginning its decline?
Astros, 2017 WS Champs, starting centerfielder George Springer, 1st round pick, first handed the starting job at the age of 25
Yankees, 2017 ALCS, starting centerfielder Jacoby Ellsbusy, 1st round pick, first handed the starting job at the age of 24
Washington Nats, 2017 AL East champs, starting centerfielder Michael Taylor, first handed the starting job at the age of 24
Arizona Diamondbacks, 2017 NL WC winner, starting centerfielder AJ Pollock, 1st round pick, first handed the starting job at the age of 25
Colorado Rockies, 2017 WC qualifier, starting centerfielder Charlie Blackmon, 2nd round pick if you want it, first handed the starting job at the age of 27
If you don't like Almora as a future productive MLB player that's fine and you're entitled to your opinion. But this idea that because the Cubs didn't elect to turn over the CF job to him full time at the age of 23 in a year in which the Cubs had legitimate and undeniable shot at winning the WS means that he's worthless just doesn't line up with the facts.
We're not in the steroid era anymore, we're in the Cubbie occurrence era. With those occurrences being deep playoff runs.
This is fantastic spin but obviously so wrong.
Right off the bat, Ellsbury was a Red Sox draft pick and started for Boston when he was 23.
And the reason Springer wasn't a regular at 23 is simply because there was no reason for it. The Astros were a 111 loss team.
But you expect us to believe that the 2017 World Series favorite Cubs had only two glaring weaknesses- centerfield and leadoff- and they had this .300 hitter and Ashburnesque defender available to solve both problems but they didn't use him because he was too young.
Try to be more ridiculous next time you post. It will be difficult.
They did use Almora, he played in every post season game except one and received 400+ at bats age the age of 23. Ellsbury played in a lower percentage of his teams playoff games and received fewer at bats by a factor of 4 at the age of 23. Almora had more plate appearances for the World Series Champ 2016 Cubs at the age of 22 than Ellsbury did for the Sox at 23. So I guess the World Series Champ 2016 Cubs
did turn over the CF job to Almora, at the age of 22, which clearly means he will be the next Garry Maddox.
We're back to this. Look, I'm sure it kills you that the Cubs have been an really good team for the past three years and are probably in the top five of model franchises over the past decade, this clearly kills you.
We know you want Almora to be bad, this is pretty obvious. You want this just like you wanted the following: none of the Cubs prospects would make it, nobody would trade for Cubs prospects, the Cubs would never win a WS because of "cubbie occurrences", the Lester contract would never work out, Arrieta was a fluke in 2014, and the countless other things you "wished" would happen over the past 5 years but just ended up in the JORR coal car full of bullshit bin.
If you don't think Almora is going to be a valuable MLB player, that's fine. This is an opinion that is shared by people, and people who are more objective. It's not a wildly ridiculous opinion.
We know you are desperate for Almora to not be a valuable MLB player, because again, all of these positive things happening to the Cubs just rot at you on the inside, but again, the fact that the Cubs didn't turn over the reigns to CF on a World Series Champion team to a 23 year old CF with 100 MLB plate appearances isn't evidence that he's going to be a bad or valueless MLB player.
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