Cowart-O-Meter

[red321]

Who is this Cowart guy? Where did he come from?

 

seriously, such a huge difference between last year and this year, looks like a totally different player. Good for him. 

[krAbs]

26 minutes ago, Homebrewer said:

If he gets most of the starts and hits around 300 I'm pretty sure everyone, fans and FO and will be ecstatic. What I love is that Scioscia has no excuse not to play the guy....even though he's not even playing his natural position.  

Wait for him to do that, and then get sent back to the minors next year with no replacement.

[stormngt]

1 hour ago, Homebrewer said:

If he gets most of the starts and hits around 300 I'm pretty sure everyone, fans and FO and will be ecstatic. What I love is that Scioscia has no excuse not to play the guy....even though he's not even playing his natural position.  

Hell I would be happy with him batting 250.  That's how bad the other options have been.

[ten ocho recon scout]

3 hours ago, Stradling said:

I am about as big of a Cowart fan as we have on here.  That being said, I don't need to see him at the top of the line up.  This is one of those times where I am perfectly fine with Scioscia being patient with him and batting in the bottom third of the order. 

Yep. I dont what our schedule is going forward. I hope its nothing too crazy. Not for the team itself, but just to take pressure off this guy, get him used to the routine, enviornment, crowd, etc. Treat him like an investment, ease him along.

I think one of the problems wood had was taking a "nice guy", without a killer instinct, and bringing him into a pennant race team where he had been annointed the next big thing years before he arrived. 

[stormngt]

37 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Yep. I dont what our schedule is going forward. I hope its nothing too crazy. Not for the team itself, but just to take pressure off this guy, get him used to the routine, enviornment, crowd, etc. Treat him like an investment, ease him along.

I think one of the problems wood had was taking a "nice guy", without a killer instinct, and bringing him into a pennant race team where he had been annointed the next big thing years before he arrived. 

Didnt woods first full season start on opening day?

[ten ocho recon scout]

1 minute ago, stormngt said:

Didnt woods first full season start on opening day?

Not sure, probably. But it was on a dynasty team as far as playoff races go. And it wasnt a situation where he could be eased in to bat 7th. It was "hes finally here, give us the 40 home run bat we read about the last 3 years...the one we didnt trade for mcab or manny for."

[stormngt]

10 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Not sure, probably. But it was on a dynasty team as far as playoff races go. And it wasnt a situation where he could be eased in to bat 7th. It was "hes finally here, give us the 40 home run bat we read about the last 3 years...the one we didnt trade for mcab or manny for."

You know every talks like we turned down mcab for woods.  However that trade that fell through included Kendrick, Santana,  Mathis,  and I believe Adenhart as well.

[ten ocho recon scout]

Yeah, it was some combo of those guys. And even with hindsight, i get it. (Mcab was a FA in a year i believe). But wood was fawned after by baseball circa 2004 or so. And i think the hype had us (along with the rest of that generation)  projecting him to be an immediate boost to the the mlb club. Maybe things would have gone different if he came up on a crap team back then, with little pressure.

[UndertheHalo]

I think it just turned out that Wood couldn't hit good pitching.  Specifically, anything that wasn't a fastball.  Which makes sense since he struggled so much at the major league level.  If Wood was a prospect today I suspect that the analytics that everyone uses now would greatly dampen any enthusiasm about him. 

Edited August 3, 2017 by UndertheHalo

[aznhockeyguy]

50 minutes ago, UndertheHalo said:

I think it just turned out that Wood couldn't hit good pitching.  Specifically, anything that wasn't a fastball.  Which makes sense since he struggled so much at the major league level.  If Wood was a prospect today I suspect that the analytics that everyone uses now would greatly dampen any enthusiasm about him. 

One of the major concerns I had with Wood as a prospect was his sky high strikeout totals.  I figured if he's an ok glove and hit .250 with those homeruns he'll be very valuable, but MLB pitchers will blow you away with their stuff and he was just destroying the weak stuff that's in the minors.  If he couldn't hit a breaking ball in the minors, what makes you think he'll hit it in the majors?

[red321]

2 hours ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Yep. I dont what our schedule is going forward. I hope its nothing too crazy. Not for the team itself, but just to take pressure off this guy, get him used to the routine, enviornment, crowd, etc. Treat him like an investment, ease him along.

I think one of the problems wood had was taking a "nice guy", without a killer instinct, and bringing him into a pennant race team where he had been annointed the next big thing years before he arrived. 

Party foul....interfering with everyone's Cowart wood by bringing up Brandon Wood. 

 

[ten ocho recon scout]

"From cowart wood to brandon wood, the cycle of life" - leonard nemoy

[UndertheHalo]

1 hour ago, red321 said:

Party foul....interfering with everyone's Cowart wood by bringing up Brandon Wood. 

 

 

53 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

"From cowart wood to brandon wood, rhe cylce of life" - leonard nemoy

Can we just get this thread back on track and only talk about Cowarts dongs ?  Brandon Wood conversations are always such downers. 

Edited August 3, 2017 by UndertheHalo

[NachoPop]

3 minutes ago, UndertheHalo said:

 

Can we just get this thread back on track and only talk about Cowarts dongs ?  Brandon Wood conversations are always such downers. 

Ironic considering it's 'uppers' that normally give dongs wood

[ten ocho recon scout]

15 minutes ago, UndertheHalo said:

 

Can we just get this thread back on track and only talk about Cowarts dongs ?  Brandon Wood conversations are always such downers. 

Cowarts dongs should be a band name.

[stormngt]

2 hours ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Yeah, it was some combo of those guys. And even with hindsight, i get it. (Mcab was a FA in a year i believe). But wood was fawned after by baseball circa 2004 or so. And i think the hype had us (along with the rest of that generation)  projecting him to be an immediate boost to the the mlb club. Maybe things would have gone different if he came up on a crap team back then, with little pressure.

Just speculating but maybe the front office knew something.  After all they didn't give him a shot of consistent playing time until 2010

[ettin]

1 hour ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Cowarts dongs should be a band name.

Yes you're right, there should be a band named that but, they will have to wait 5 years to be in a Big Show, though.

[red321]

2 hours ago, stormngt said:

Just speculating but maybe the front office knew something.  After all they didn't give him a shot of consistent playing time until 2010

If they knew, they would have dealt him. 

[AngelsLakersFan]

5 hours ago, UndertheHalo said:

 

Can we just get this thread back on track and only talk about Cowarts dongs ?  Brandon Wood conversations are always such downers. 

Coward's dong was huge, but talking about Wood is pretty deflating... 

[AngelsLakersFan]

4 hours ago, stormngt said:

Just speculating but maybe the front office knew something.  After all they didn't give him a shot of consistent playing time until 2010

He had struggled in the high minors. By the time he came up I didn't have much in terms of expectations.

[Billy_Ball]

.438 still over .400, and a nice defensive play

 

That dong!!!!!

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

1 hour ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

He had struggled in the high minors. By the time he came up I didn't have much in terms of expectations.

He had struggled in AA. He thrived in AAA for 2.5 years. All the while he may have been the best defensive 3B in the entire minor leagues.

[tdawg87]

4 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

He had struggled in AA. He thrived in AAA for 2.5 years. All the while he may have been the best defensive 3B in the entire minor leagues.

You know they're talking about Brandon Wood, right?

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Just now, tdawg87 said:

You know they're talking about Brandon Wood, right?

no

[tdawg87]