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Just got this text from my little brother (also a Cubs fan, but doesn't really follow baseball as closely as I do):

"Kris Bryant starting the year or going down for 12 days?"

:sigh:

Ok...and i don't mean to offend anyone but this whole situation reminds me of the great darwin barney debate in that if you tuned it at the beginning of the season, you thought barney was good (or at least not so terrible with the bat that he undid his good defense)and only after april/may when most people tuned out because the team was utter shite did barney really show how terrible he was. So when we were discussing games in august, someone would inevitably chime in, why isn't barney playing. This situation just kind of feels like that, many of us have been expecting the bryant call up to come mid april since last year when it was obvious he was ready to come up, but now you see some gaudy spring training numbers and everyone is saying 'where's bryant.'

And i'm not saying that about any of our posters here, we've got a good group of cubs posters, but more the twitter/radio/BCB guys.

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Posted by Keltic Tiger

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Posted on 3/26/15 at 10:12 am to piggidyphish

Boras worrying bout the integrity of the game is a fricking joke. He cares about one thing & one thing only: making as much money as possible as soon as possible for his client/s. Which is fine, that is his job. But quit trying to sell the idea that this is all about integrity & morals. If the rule was reversed to where it was beneficial to his client to be held down, he'd do it in a heartbeat.

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Posted by The Sad Banana

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Posted on 3/26/15 at 10:15 am to piggidyphish

First off, I don't even bother with the BCB group. They are just atrocious. Al Yellon is literally the worst writer, analyst, and thinker in the Cubs blogosphere. I love the Desipio forum, but even they focus most of their content on hating on Al Yellon that they sometimes forget where they are. That's cool, though, because those guys are hilarious and Andy's writing is satirical and spot on.

I don't like to listen to most national reports on Cubs stuff because they usually just don't know enough and always paint with broad strokes. Like Intentional Talk...I feel like those guys are boneheads most of the time. Millar always talks about "grit" and "heart" and "ballplayer" and "grinding". That's great, Millar, but do you really want 25 Tony Campanas or Ryan Theriots?

Back to Barney. I think something similar might be brewing with Javy Baez. Gordon Wittenmeyer reported that Baez was told he was making the Opening Day roster. And that may be true, but Joe Maddon refuted that report and said nothing is final yet. And that brings me to this Bleacher Nation article.

I don't know what to think about this. (This is different than the Bryant thing because Baez is on the 40 man roster and already started his clock). On the one had, Baez strikes out way too much. On the other hand, he's very young and still has a lot of learning to do and the system and resources are there (Maddon, coaches, etc.) for him to adjust. He plays great defense, runs the bases very well and has a high baseball IQ. Those things are relevant and shouldn't keep him from being on the roster even if his bat is struggling.

For the record, I think Baez should definitely be on the Opening Day roster at 2B.

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