Tim Anderson has to win the batting title basically every year to be a positive offensive player. He never walks, and he's not a power hitter.

What's also lost in the batting title talk is that he had 26 errors in 120 games. He would have had 35 in a normal season. That's a ton of strain on your pitching staff.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Well said. It hurt the franchise how they went about the negotiations(me and you argued about it in January) and their comments after the failure. He was ripe for the picking early on and basically let SD come into the picture. Bad, but I could live with that. It was the irrational explanation afterwords that infuriated me.

So say he loses some of his batting average but gets better on defense and plays a full season. That's probably roughly the same amount of contribution overall as he had this year.

I don't think that Anderson will ever be a good defensive short-stop and I have said before that he should be an outfielder where his speed and arm would be well suited. That being said, he will get better defensively and will start drawing more walks. His power numbers will also improve as he matures.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

He also would have had 30 HRs had he not gotten hurt.

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He had 18 in 123 games but would have had 12 in the 27 games he missed? ROTFLMAO.

His power was definitely affected by the injury.

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Frank, don't dig your heels in on this one.

He has 26 errors, but 18, 26 who’s counting?

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

He might have hit 25 at the most.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

He's not going to get better on defense. He's not a MLB caliber short-stop.

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Have you just met Frank?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Trolling becomes a work of art in your hands.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

18 home runs, not 18 errors.

Yes. His slugging percentage was 50 points higher after the injury.

He was on pace for 26 before the injury and his isolated power was 174 before the injury compared to 175 after the injury.

Math. It works.

Lighting yourself on fire. It works.

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You’ve threatened to throw yourself off the Sears Tower a couple times lately. What’s stopping you? What do you have to lose? It would certainly improve your lot in life.

Little Frankie likes to count a lot. He can probably tell you how many times Renteria on this board was spoken. Perhaps little Frankie had to go board the short bus a lot for remedial math because he sure is hung up on some strange things.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

You do not know that. He is a world class athlete who did not play baseball at an early age. He will get better on defense. That much is clear. Part of it will be positioning and part of it will be practicing at the position and the mechanics involved.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

You do not know that.

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He will because that's what players that have a lot of pride in themselves do. Anderson clearly has a lot of pride in himself, maybe even a bit too much. He made an amazing improvement in the offensive numbers and will not want his image downgraded over-all. He wants to succeed and will work to make himself better. THe big thing that I see wrong with him defensively is his footwork and balance. This will take quite a bit of work to clean up but isn't unusual considering the limited amount of time he has played the game.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

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