Comments on: It’s Time for the Cubs to Act Like the Dodgers: Part 2, Offensive Depth http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/11/17/its-time-for-the-cubs-to-act-like-the-dodgers-part-2-offensive-depth/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:04:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Guz http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/11/17/its-time-for-the-cubs-to-act-like-the-dodgers-part-2-offensive-depth/#comment-21049 Sat, 18 Nov 2017 08:40:09 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=22270#comment-21049 Thanks for being one of the few to call out Ego Joe and his playing of Zobrist–and with good detail. What is a .550 OPS? It’s also called “automatic out”. When a player does that in a juiced-ball year, it’s called “sin.” When a manager then insists on playing the .550 dude, it’s called “Joe Hole.”

Joe Hole not only continued to play Zobrist (at the expense of Baez, Schwarber, Happ, LaStella), he continued to play him vs LHP, and worse, when he did, he batted him 1st, 4th, or 5th. He started Zo in the 6-hole once during the reg season–and never once in the 7, 8, or 9-hole.

So much for this open-minded idiot.

The final notch in Joe’s belt was that he didn’t just do this in an elimination game with Kershaw on the mound, he did it all season long, including in crucial stretch games vs the Brewers.

I could care less about the “wrist injury” as an excuse (remember Heyhole developed one AFTER 2016 to explain 2016?) for a player’s abysmal performance–how bout next time use it as an excuse NOT TO PLAY HIM?

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