Cubs' Prospects FUTUREBONER thread

[Saul Goodman]

Here's something else - if SKOwarber pans out, he and Rizzo will be the Cubs' two legit lefthanded power bats together for the first time in...ever?

Henry Rodriguez and, uh, Mark Grace?  Tyler Houston?  Okay, ever is fair.

[InternetApex]

Here's something else - if SKOwarber pans out, he and Rizzo will be the Cubs' two legit lefthanded power bats together for the first time in...ever?

Henry Rodriguez and, uh, Mark Grace?  Tyler Houston?  Okay, ever is fair.

Fred McGriff and Corey Patterson.

[Quality Start Machine]

Here's something else - if SKOwarber pans out, he and Rizzo will be the Cubs' two legit lefthanded power bats together for the first time in...ever?

Henry Rodriguez and, uh, Mark Grace?  Tyler Houston?  Okay, ever is fair.

Fred McGriff and Corey Patterson.

I think the Bellhop had more HRs from the port side in 2002.

And McStiff eats ass.

No bullshit guys, I went back to, like Billy Williams and Johnny Callison to find two LH hitters that combined for at least 60 HRs - and that was only because Williams had over 40.

[PenFoe]

Here's something else - if SKOwarber pans out, he and Rizzo will be the Cubs' two legit lefthanded power bats together for the first time in...ever?

Henry Rodriguez and, uh, Mark Grace?  Tyler Houston?  Okay, ever is fair.

2002 Fred McGriff and Mark Bellhorn. 

47 homers from the left side (Bellhorn hit 27 total, 17 as a lefty)

[Saul Goodman]

Here's something else - if SKOwarber pans out, he and Rizzo will be the Cubs' two legit lefthanded power bats together for the first time in...ever?

Henry Rodriguez and, uh, Mark Grace?  Tyler Houston?  Okay, ever is fair.

Fred McGriff and Corey Patterson.

Ah, 2002.  McGriff hit 30 and Patterson managed 14 for that murderer's row Cubs team.  They utterly destroyed the league on their way to a fifth-place finish.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Here's something else - if SKOwarber pans out, he and Rizzo will be the Cubs' two legit lefthanded power bats together for the first time in...ever?

Henry Rodriguez and, uh, Mark Grace?  Tyler Houston?  Okay, ever is fair.

Fred McGriff and Corey Patterson.

I think the Bellhop had more HRs from the port side in 2002.

And McStiff eats ass.

No bullshit guys, I went back to, like Billy Williams and Johnny Callison to find two LH hitters that combined for at least 60 HRs - and that was only because Williams had over 40.

I went back to the 30's thinking maybe Riggs Stephenson and Kiki Cuyler would prove you wrong but, though they were both exceptional hitters (.336/.407 and .323/.382 career BA/OBP, respectively) on pennant-winning and pennant-contending teams,

1) Neither were power hitters
2) Neither were left-handed

In fact, the only true left-handed hitting power hitter on the Last Consistently Contending Cubs Teams was Chuck Klein, who only played for them for them for parts of 3 seasons.

That is to say...Fork is correct?

[SKO]

Henry Rodriguez hates you all.

[SKO]

H-Rod and Brant Brown in 1998. We're done here.

[Brownie]

Here's something else - if SKOwarber pans out, he and Rizzo will be the Cubs' two legit lefthanded power bats together for the first time in...ever?

Henry Rodriguez and, uh, Mark Grace?  Tyler Houston?  Okay, ever is fair.

Fred McGriff and Corey Patterson.

I think the Bellhop had more HRs from the port side in 2002.

And McStiff eats ass.

No bullshit guys, I went back to, like Billy Williams and Johnny Callison to find two LH hitters that combined for at least 60 HRs - and that was only because Williams had over 40.

I went back to the 30's thinking maybe Riggs Stephenson and Kiki Cuyler would prove you wrong but, though they were both exceptional hitters (.336/.407 and .323/.382 career BA/OBP, respectively) on pennant-winning and pennant-contending teams,

1) Neither were power hitters
2) Neither were left-handed

In fact, the only true left-handed hitting power hitter on the Last Consistently Contending Cubs Teams was Chuck Klein, who only played for them for them for parts of 3 seasons.

That is to say...Fork is correct?

Oh, what could have been with Mel Hall and Leon Durham.

[Quality Start Machine]

Here's something else - if SKOwarber pans out, he and Rizzo will be the Cubs' two legit lefthanded power bats together for the first time in...ever?

Henry Rodriguez and, uh, Mark Grace?  Tyler Houston?  Okay, ever is fair.

Fred McGriff and Corey Patterson.

I think the Bellhop had more HRs from the port side in 2002.

And McStiff eats ass.

No bullshit guys, I went back to, like Billy Williams and Johnny Callison to find two LH hitters that combined for at least 60 HRs - and that was only because Williams had over 40.

I went back to the 30's thinking maybe Riggs Stephenson and Kiki Cuyler would prove you wrong but, though they were both exceptional hitters (.336/.407 and .323/.382 career BA/OBP, respectively) on pennant-winning and pennant-contending teams,

1) Neither were power hitters
2) Neither were left-handed

In fact, the only true left-handed hitting power hitter on the Last Consistently Contending Cubs Teams was Chuck Klein, who only played for them for them for parts of 3 seasons.

That is to say...Fork is correct?

Intrepid Reader: Billy Williams (426 HRs)

Now, ain't that some shit?

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Here's something else - if SKOwarber pans out, he and Rizzo will be the Cubs' two legit lefthanded power bats together for the first time in...ever?

Henry Rodriguez and, uh, Mark Grace?  Tyler Houston?  Okay, ever is fair.

Fred McGriff and Corey Patterson.

I think the Bellhop had more HRs from the port side in 2002.

And McStiff eats ass.

No bullshit guys, I went back to, like Billy Williams and Johnny Callison to find two LH hitters that combined for at least 60 HRs - and that was only because Williams had over 40.

I went back to the 30's thinking maybe Riggs Stephenson and Kiki Cuyler would prove you wrong but, though they were both exceptional hitters (.336/.407 and .323/.382 career BA/OBP, respectively) on pennant-winning and pennant-contending teams,

1) Neither were power hitters
2) Neither were left-handed

In fact, the only true left-handed hitting power hitter on the Last Consistently Contending Cubs Teams was Chuck Klein, who only played for them for them for parts of 3 seasons.

That is to say...Fork is correct?

Intrepid Reader: Billy Williams (426 HRs)

Now, ain't that some shit?

Sorry, I guess I should have qualified my definition of "contending" to include "at least 1 FUCKING measly trip to the postseason".

[ChuckD]

Here's something else - if SKOwarber pans out, he and Rizzo will be the Cubs' two legit lefthanded power bats together for the first time in...ever?

Henry Rodriguez and, uh, Mark Grace?  Tyler Houston?  Okay, ever is fair.

Fred McGriff and Corey Patterson.

I think the Bellhop had more HRs from the port side in 2002.

And McStiff eats ass.

No bullshit guys, I went back to, like Billy Williams and Johnny Callison to find two LH hitters that combined for at least 60 HRs - and that was only because Williams had over 40.

I went back to the 30's thinking maybe Riggs Stephenson and Kiki Cuyler would prove you wrong but, though they were both exceptional hitters (.336/.407 and .323/.382 career BA/OBP, respectively) on pennant-winning and pennant-contending teams,

1) Neither were power hitters
2) Neither were left-handed

In fact, the only true left-handed hitting power hitter on the Last Consistently Contending Cubs Teams was Chuck Klein, who only played for them for them for parts of 3 seasons.

That is to say...Fork is correct?

Intrepid Reader: Billy Williams (426 HRs)

Now, ain't that some shit?

Sorry, I guess I should have qualified my definition of "contending" to include "at least 1 FUCKING measly trip to the postseason".

Billy Williams: Not a winner.

[R-V]

Here's something else - if SKOwarber pans out, he and Rizzo will be the Cubs' two legit lefthanded power bats together for the first time in...ever?

Henry Rodriguez and, uh, Mark Grace?  Tyler Houston?  Okay, ever is fair.

Fred McGriff and Corey Patterson.

I think the Bellhop had more HRs from the port side in 2002.

And McStiff eats ass.

No bullshit guys, I went back to, like Billy Williams and Johnny Callison to find two LH hitters that combined for at least 60 HRs - and that was only because Williams had over 40.

I went back to the 30's thinking maybe Riggs Stephenson and Kiki Cuyler would prove you wrong but, though they were both exceptional hitters (.336/.407 and .323/.382 career BA/OBP, respectively) on pennant-winning and pennant-contending teams,

1) Neither were power hitters
2) Neither were left-handed

In fact, the only true left-handed hitting power hitter on the Last Consistently Contending Cubs Teams was Chuck Klein, who only played for them for them for parts of 3 seasons.

That is to say...Fork is correct?

Intrepid Reader: Billy Williams (426 HRs)

Now, ain't that some shit?

Sorry, I guess I should have qualified my definition of "contending" to include "at least 1 FUCKING measly trip to the postseason".

Billy Williams: Not a winner.

No balls. No heart.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Here's something else - if SKOwarber pans out, he and Rizzo will be the Cubs' two legit lefthanded power bats together for the first time in...ever?

Henry Rodriguez and, uh, Mark Grace?  Tyler Houston?  Okay, ever is fair.

Fred McGriff and Corey Patterson.

I think the Bellhop had more HRs from the port side in 2002.

And McStiff eats ass.

No bullshit guys, I went back to, like Billy Williams and Johnny Callison to find two LH hitters that combined for at least 60 HRs - and that was only because Williams had over 40.

I went back to the 30's thinking maybe Riggs Stephenson and Kiki Cuyler would prove you wrong but, though they were both exceptional hitters (.336/.407 and .323/.382 career BA/OBP, respectively) on pennant-winning and pennant-contending teams,

1) Neither were power hitters
2) Neither were left-handed

In fact, the only true left-handed hitting power hitter on the Last Consistently Contending Cubs Teams was Chuck Klein, who only played for them for them for parts of 3 seasons.

That is to say...Fork is correct?

Intrepid Reader: Billy Williams (426 HRs)

Now, ain't that some shit?

Sorry, I guess I should have qualified my definition of "contending" to include "at least 1 FUCKING measly trip to the postseason".

Billy Williams: Not a winner.

Not what i'm saying--I freakin' love Billy Williams and I actually loathe the Joe Morgan Argument About Chammenships Being a Factor In Rating Individual Players(TM).

I've just grown so allergic to the Durocher-Era Cubs of the late 60's/early 70's I don't put them on the same level as the McCarthy/Grimm-era Cubs of the late 20's/early 30's (who could be considered chumps in their own right for losing all 4 of their trips to the World Series betwwen '29 and '38 but at least they made the goddamned thing)

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Here's something else - if SKOwarber pans out, he and Rizzo will be the Cubs' two legit lefthanded power bats together for the first time in...ever?

Henry Rodriguez and, uh, Mark Grace?  Tyler Houston?  Okay, ever is fair.

Fred McGriff and Corey Patterson.

I think the Bellhop had more HRs from the port side in 2002.

And McStiff eats ass.

No bullshit guys, I went back to, like Billy Williams and Johnny Callison to find two LH hitters that combined for at least 60 HRs - and that was only because Williams had over 40.

I went back to the 30's thinking maybe Riggs Stephenson and Kiki Cuyler would prove you wrong but, though they were both exceptional hitters (.336/.407 and .323/.382 career BA/OBP, respectively) on pennant-winning and pennant-contending teams,

1) Neither were power hitters
2) Neither were left-handed

In fact, the only true left-handed hitting power hitter on the Last Consistently Contending Cubs Teams was Chuck Klein, who only played for them for them for parts of 3 seasons.

That is to say...Fork is correct?

Intrepid Reader: Billy Williams (426 HRs)

Now, ain't that some shit?

Sorry, I guess I should have qualified my definition of "contending" to include "at least 1 FUCKING measly trip to the postseason".

Billy Williams: Not a winner.

No balls. No heart.

Figures RV would equate Edwin Jackson to Billy Williams.  Dude fucking loves Edwin Jackson.

RV--stop riding EJax' manhammer so joyously, man.  It's embarassing.