Cron deserves to be benched!!!

[Stradling]

I'll take a baby fat dude who hits two homers with one being a walk off.  

[Adam]

3 minutes ago, calscuf said:

He's a big dude, but he needs to hit the gym.  

We call that country or corn fed

[Chuck]

4 minutes ago, calscuf said:

He's a big dude, but he needs to hit the gym.  

He's one soft big dude.

[fan_since79]

His brother Kevin in AA goes 6'5" and 245.

 

[Blarg]

2 minutes ago, Adam said:

We call that country or corn fed

And those guys call you Haddam.

[Second Base]

But but but.......I dont wanna have patience, I want to hate Cron now!

Also, yeah Cron looks big and soft. Cowgill looked like Superman and sucked. No correlation.

[Oz27]

2 hours ago, stormngt said:

I got my stats from espn.  Go look them up.  And quit playing legalese.  You were not referring to this year.  If you were your an idiot for making a decisive statement for only 1/4 of a season.

 

Argue all you want.  It is not decisively clear that Kole is a better player.  

I hope circumstances (Cron hitting the game-winner) don't make us forget this gem of a post. "Your an idiot" moments should always be enjoyed, particularly when in response to someone who pretty comprehensively disproved their previous point.

[AngelArcher]

46 minutes ago, Oz27 said:

I hope circumstances (Cron hitting the game-winner) don't make us forget this gem of a post. "Your an idiot" moments should always be enjoyed, particularly when in response to someone who pretty comprehensively disproved their previous point.

Also, when did the regular season become 200+ games?

#notbenched

 

[Ohtaniland]

Nice walk off by this horse with no name. He will be benched tomorrow.

[RallyPanda]

Dude has one good game and everyone is ready to call him the face of the franchise, LOL!

[Blarg]

7 hours ago, calscuf said:

I'm probably a bigger douche for criticizing his arms than he is for not being toned.

Cron has the Boog Powell look.

 

[yk9001]

This thread... Its what we do.

[RallyPanda]

He's still garbage!

[Dick B Back]

Yesterday's game proves Cron should only be benched when he's not hitting.

[AngelsLakersFan]

19 hours ago, Stradling said:

I don't care about the money, but the last thing you want to do when arguing Albert is take the money ALREADY spent out of the equation.  He has earned his contract so far, unfortunately going forward, with it being such a back loaded deal, he will not earn it with stats. 

This is what is so disturbing about Arte crying poor the last couple of years. Pujols' and Trout's contracts are only going to go up.

[Chuck]

1 hour ago, RallyPanda said:

He's still garbage!

Well so far he's been more productive than Upton, Heyward and Gordon.

[ettin]

The ebbs and flows of this thread fully supports the popcorn manufacturing industry juggernaut it is becoming.

[aznhockeyguy]

So read the thread before and after last night's game.  CJ at this point is not a very good player and unless he starts improving in the next few seasons, probably deserves to be a bench/rotational/platoon player for his career.  Per fangraphs, he's 23rd among 1b in OPS and 12th out of 14th in OPS if he was considered a DH this season.  His minor league stats weren't all that special until he arrived at PCL, which is notorious for being a hitters' league.  His glove is atrocious.  He has the lowest walk rate since he entered the league among first basemen and his "power" isn't all that great as his ISO for his career is .176  which is 22nd out of 34 1st basemen since he entered the league and has at least 800 PA's per Fangraphs.  While he is still young, unless he improves his strike zone judgement or batting "eye", he isn't a good player at this point of his career and should be considered a marginal player.

 

EDIT: Also would like to add that CJ reminds me a lot of Eric Karros and sure enough their stats are very similar at the same ages. Cron's stats; Karros's stats