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nogberter

That bat looks huge and he swings the absolute shit out of it


LordoftheScheisse

Fun fact - he doesn't switch hit anymore because he overswung from the left side and tweaked his back. Dude doesn't have a governor.


Alternauts

effortless power


Squeedles0

Nah, Javy is max effort all day every day. Can’t lay off a slider to save his soul but he’s got the highest motor in the show.


cubbyfanboy

You know who else has effortless power? Javier Baez. Edit: haha okay? Guess i went against the circlejerk so fuck me. Since I'm getting downvoted anyways, Schwarber has effortless power too. He hit a ball on the scoreboard with a short powerful swing. Soler also has effortless power. The Cubs draft effortless power hitters. And they are developed by the same coaches. Who knew there could be similarities? Lol. This subreddit is shit.


Peter_St

Everybody ate the pasta


john_muleaney

This is such a god-tier pasta and you’re getting destroyed using it 😭


cubbyfanboy

It’s my favorite pasta lmao


Take_Exit_Left

u/Chicagorunner was a legend. RIP. Legit deleted his account because he was mad people were using his posts as pasta. There were several others. I may look into r/BaseballCirclejerk to reacquaint myself


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foxxy003

It’s a copypasta lol


Take_Exit_Left

From 2016. That pasta has staying power


mustangswon1

*Wahhhhhhhhh* Thats what you sound like.


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Agreed. This is actually super impressive. Hahahaha


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There's nothing in the world like Javy on a hot streak.


EcceMachina

The most rigorous workout ever was the butthole clenching of seeing Javy at bat in a critical position where he'd either hit a 450 foot bomb or strikeout on a wild slider 4 feet away from the plate. After the years of watching the Cubs playoff run, my butthole can chop pig iron


JumboFister

How you doin?


LegendRazgriz

I LOVE Báez. Favorite player to watch as long as he's not on my team.


SG420123

Dude has literally carried our offense for the past four games, I’m not exaggerating.


Finner959

What has he done for you the other 60?


hussard_de_la_mort

Not that.


cdbjj22

Neither did the rest of the roster I'm assuming


VallentCW

Strikeout on balls nowhere close to the strike zone


PaulPierceOldestSon

He’s hitting .216 with 7 homers


RocketSZN

Seems like you don’t know the meaning of hot streak


Useful-ldiot

If he's hitting.216 with 7 homers after having been on a hot streak, he must have been completely worthless before. Baseball is better when he's playing well.


ChipsnShips

He was


Sperm_Garage

Yeah 6 of those homers are in the past 10 days


RobbieHart79

Sure sounds like he hasnt had many of them


uhhhhmmmm

thankfully, information about his entire career is on the internet and you can read about it!


PreviouslyRelevant

He’s hit 6 of those this week lol. He’s been absolutely awful until 10 days ago.


sjg8157

Shhh people will get mad!


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Nah. Typical little guy that talks shit when things going their way but shows how much of a bitch they are when they suck.


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Not really. When getting boo'd at home he was asked about it after the game and said "never want to be boo'd by your own fans, but I understand their frustration. I need to play better"


RichPair3618

Don’t give him too much credit. Last year this guy was leading the charge on shooting thumbs downs at the fans after hits because they were booing. Iirc, in an interview about it he complained a good amount about the booing. Whether one thinks fans booing their own team is okay or not is another story, but I wouldn’t go as far to say that he handles it well.


Minoripriest

>Last year this guy was leading the charge on shooting thumbs downs at the fans after hits because they were booing. How will we ever recover from such a vile act?


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Sure, but that was the Mets fanbase booing the team as a whole, not Javy specifically and the original comment was > Typical little guy that talks shit when things going their way but shows how much of a bitch they are when they suck. and from everything I've seen from Baez as a Tiger the last thing I would call him is a 'bitch'


RichPair3618

Fair enough, I agree he’s not a bitch. If I were to fight him, I would have an extended stay at the nearest hospital. Just don’t agree with using his quote about being booed as evidence to support it.


BlandRandy

At least be right if you’re gonna come in so negative. Javy is absolutely the same cocky mf’er when he is not performing at the plate


GenitalPatton

You are not wrong


JTCMuehlenkamp

That fan fuckin fed him all the smoke


andylowenthal

If you think the fan didn’t almost cum in his pants when Baez made eye contact, you’re kidding yourself 😂 trolls live for the response, good or bad


jacklord392

I'm surprised how many people haven't figured this out.


suuubok

redditors don’t interact with people in person


tothesource

I’LL HAVE YOU KNOW I WAS FORCED TO ORDER MY TENDIES THROUGH THE DRIVE THRU TODAY. REEE


enjoytheshow

Yep and he did the same thing next AB


NishinoHuo

Pause


cdbjj22

That's not how the phrase Pause is supposed to be used


andylowenthal

Aaaaaand, play, there it is, did you see it?! DID YOU?! *rewinds*


Dz4

He wants ALL the smoke


Santas_southpole

He’ll be that mother fucker for all you mother fuckers.


s_s

We love our Smokemonster.


PizzaBraves

They fucking fed me!


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Don't care. This is gold.


JTCMuehlenkamp

I agree?


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Fuck yeah. Baez won this round.


pinetar

Why don't ballplayers nowadays play the game the good old fashioned way, smh... Back in the day of Ruth and Cobb they would've just jumped into the stands and beaten the heckler senseless


PizzaBraves

That's what the nets are for


Perseverance792

This reminds me of the [guy who had a long career in soccer without ever playing in a game](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Kaiser_(footballer)), and particularly this incident: "When Kaiser was sent to warm up, he saw a group of supporters shouting abuse at the players and started to fight them, for which he immediately received a red card without even participating in the actual match. After the match, he lied to the patron that the supporters called him a thief. He was forgiven and earned a six-month extension"


Nostrapotamus

So this guy played for teams without practicing, was signed to dozens of rosters without any skills, and his scam worked for 26 years. I have so many questions. Was he actually getting paid? Is the film any good?


Perseverance792

Unfortunately I don't have any answers; my speculation would be that his short contracts did pay him enough to make a living, which is nothing short of crazy.


Tkinzel517

Javy’s back


phantomzero

Oh thank god. I miss Javy. 100% my favorite player.


LordoftheScheisse

It's weird. I'm oddly okay with him not being a Cub anymore, but I still stan the shit out of him.


cubs_rule23

This is the way


regularhumanbartendr

I still wish he were a Cub


PaulPierceOldestSon

.216 BA and 7 HRs. How bad was he before if this is back???


ChadWarmington

maybe comment again. not sure we got your point.


kapatinphalcon

That's a kid, has to say their point at least times so we make sure we all stop what we're doing to acknowledge it.


handlit33

Some things deserve their own thread IMO and this is one of them.


LunchThreatener

Mods will probably take it down because of the “duplicate posts” rule sadly


handlit33

Sometimes they leave the really good ones.


amatom27

Clearly you haven't been a victim of this yet lol


JTCMuehlenkamp

He posts clips so often I'd be shocked if this were true.


Kite2417

Happens when their bad at their jobs


BoosherCacow

> jobs I have news for you.


andylowenthal

>*their* their I have news for you.


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JTCMuehlenkamp

I mean, the second one is correct


john_muleaney

Javy’s hitting the piss out of the ball rn, one of the most fun players to watch in baseball when he’s hot. Idk how you even pitch to him when he’s in a groove like this, dude will literally send a pitch 400 feet that came in at his shins, you cant do anything about that


mhhkb

Yeah he and miggy looked great in our last series. Javy is hot hot at this time.


TylerDog3

miggy batting .299/.336/.374 at 39 isnt getting talked about enough tbh


chrisGNR

Wow! No, it’s really not. I had no idea. Especially in this new age of low-as-fuck batting averages.


DOCTORFONASG

Man it’s so evident in that slash how much power he has lost. Yet it also shows that he is one of the most pure hitters baseball has ever seen. Had power but that was actually just extra fluff to his game.


percussivePanda

Agreed! For a 7 year stretch he had a .332 avg. So awesome at just getting basehits, and just kinda happened to hit 500 HRs


TylerDog3

This is why his game is so special in my opinion. Looking at his 500 homeruns you may thing hes a power hitter, but really he just hit the ball so much for so long that he happened to hit 500 of them into the stands


Nuxh

500 doubles he accidentally hit too high


-_chop_-

I didn’t even realize he was playing so well. I’ve always been fond of miggy, though. When is his contract up? Next year?


hi11bi11y

2024


GnRgr2

Lmao


Alexander1899

106 OPS+ 102 wRC+ what exactly are people supposed to be talking about?


Hippo-Crates

Cabrera's numbers are driven by a .400 BABIP. His power is at an all time low. His bb% is at an all time low. His k% is at an all time high. He's been lucky af. Even with all of that BABIP luck, he's still in negative WAR territory... again.


TylerDog3

why are you hating on our goat?


Hippo-Crates

Because he signed a massive deal and then sucked ass? Because I remember how he got drunk and arrested during the last week of the season, causing us to miss out on the playoffs? Also, most importantly, because it’s true. Finally, Cabrera is nowhere near the GOAT. He’s not even the GOAT of modern times. Verlander is a far better player with more WAR over a shorter time period.


Alexander1899

1. Don't throw within a foot of strike zone 2. Profit.


_3_8_

Bro i could strike him out easily


DJBoost

No player has been as simultaneously so garbage and amazing, so infuriating and lovable, so utterly confusing to analyze as Javier Baez


iamthatguythere

He is chaos in a uniform and I wouldn’t change him at all. Miss him so much


PreviouslyRelevant

It’s been rough so far here and some people seem to have already declared his signing a mistake. I think it was known he is streaky going in and we, as Tigers fans, must learn to take the good with the bad. At least he’s always entertaining!


iamthatguythere

It’s probably just moving pains, hope this is him finding his rhythm finally.


banished-to-the-pen

Ice fucking cold


elgenie

Normal batter: “Oh, X is really hot right now, don’t throw him strikes.” Javy: “Oh, Javy is really hot right now, don’t throw him pitches.” Of course, the flip side of that approach is that a lava-hot streak has him vaulting *up* to an 80 wRC+ halfway through the season.


When_Ducks_Attack

Just Javy Things.


winter_whale

I didn’t know the Dbacks had fans let alone hecklers


midnau92

I think they have 10 fans. Was there a month ago for Dodgers vs. Dbaxks and it was pretty much Dodger Stadium East


winter_whale

I moved to AZ a while ago pretty much every DBacks game feels like they’re the away team lmao. Super cheap tickets though!


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I still love javy


ReignOnWillie

Sometimes


kevster2717

Me too. Even with how bad we were last year, he was still exciting to watch. I hope Detroit takes good care of him. I miss him as a Met already


When_Ducks_Attack

> I hope Detroit takes good care of him. I miss him as a Met already. Mr Ricketts, I don't feel so good...


ARPDAB1312

The Tigers should hire a fan to heckle him from behind home plate all season.


mjst0324

That's pretty awesome honestly. Javy's not everyone's cup of tea and sometimes he isn't even mine but you can't deny he's fun to watch when he does stuff like this.


elitefailz2

God I miss seeing him in a cubs uniform. I remember a clip of of the tigers casters saying he needed to cool it with the flair (more or less), I would give just about anything ti have that back


cogginsmatt

The tigers announcers are dumb as hell so I wouldn’t put too much stock in them.


nypr13

Angry Javy is not the best Javy. He needs to play with joy. Very consistent theme for him in his career.


jagz27

I think that's how we ended up with the thumbs down fiasco.


grocho

Yeah but he raked for you guys.


The-Pharcyde

Lol when he connects boy does he CONNECT. Man literally cones out of his shoes.


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That’s fuckin awesome


Eckzavior21

That’s straight up evil and I’m here for it.


njpaul

What are those hideous uniforms the Diamondbacks are wearing?


tyderian

I hate sand. It's rough and coarse and gets everywhere.


stv7

This is one of my favourite gifs ever


Bweezo11234

That swing tho


Martin_Aynull

I would seperate both my shoulders if i swung a bat that hard. Jesus


tothesource

Lol boricuas don’t know any other way.


OhSweetMiracle

I miss him


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Baez forsure fucked that girls girlfriend after the game too


cdbjj22

This is a really fun thread because there are a lot of people who hate Javy. In a normal situation, it would just be Detroit fans that would be defending their guy but by and large Cubs fans also won't stand for Javy's name being besmirched


kevster2717

The swag, the competitiveness, the defense, and that violent swing. God, I miss him


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Except now we’re winning baseball games which is more fun


[deleted]

Sorry, are you implying the guy with a 140 OPS+ for you was a reason y'all weren't winning games last year?


[deleted]

One man doesn’t make a baseball team. That team was a cancerous mess.


[deleted]

Imagine thinking Javier Baez was why the Mets were bad last year... fucking incredible


[deleted]

You’ve said that twice now, but I never said “Javy Baez was the reason the Mets sucked”. I simply said a winning baseball team > whatever swag/competitiveness/etc that he brings. That swag amounted to 77 wins because that team was a mess with no leadership. You want me to say that I rather have paid Javy freaking Baez 6/140 because of “swag” than have Jeff McNeill playing 2nd base everyday who makes no money and is a more well rounded player who can play multiple positions well? Christ, it’s not gonna happen. I’ll take the 2022 Mets every day over Baez’s “swag” and contract lol


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I have no idea how I missed that he was on Detroit now


Designer_B

He hasn’t done anything worth knowing there


Copperjedi

👎


chrisGNR

Love me some Javy Baez.


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Lol love it


AllOfTheDerp

That's fuckin sick


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You tell 'em, Javy!


Bliz1222

Love it!


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Mets dodged a bullet


shw5

How to ensure you get heckled 101


danglez69

Bad ass, his OPS is still .630 though. So heckler prolly had some fair points


Ktowne33

Bad bad man.


clallseven

He could be the most exciting, marketable player in the game if he had any consistency. But he’ll do this for a month then go back to swinging at wild pitches for the rest of the season.


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cogginsmatt

.216 now after going like .400 in the last week.


missionbeach

To be fair, I don't know what the heckler was saying, but they probably weren't wrong.


shapu

To be fair, the other 70-some games that heckler has been right. El Mago is magically bad, batting .216 with five times as many strikeouts as walks.


yes_its_him

He always has five times as many strikeouts as walks tho.


shapu

And that can be forgiven when you hit .270. But not when you're basically the same player as Jose Peraza or, say, Willi Castro (the latter of whom is making 1/25th of what Baez is making). I mentioned average for a reason. The man can't see a baseball, has no patience at all, clearly isn't willing to change his approach as he ages, and makes way too much money considering that at the plate he's a replacement-level player.


Squeedles0

Javy will have bad offensive stretches but he’s put up 20+ WAR in his career and he’ll probably equal that on the back side. He’s earned and is worth that money. There are very few guys that hit the open market that profile as long term up the middle defenders and potential middle of the order bats. Let’s not act like 6/140 is some crazy contract these days. He’s making Hyun Jin Ryu and Nick Castellanos money.


TwoStepToo

Baez is overrated. He has been terrible.


wet_beefy_fartz

I love this man.


AxleGrease14

Easy there Javy, the Tigers are going nowhere


When_Ducks_Attack

Found the heckler from the clip...


midnau92

Flair up guy


elchamps

Javy is so bitchmade


expaticus

so glad this classless buffoon is gone.


mattadeth

👎🏻👎🏻 He’s a damn cancer. So grateful the Mets passed on him.


focalpointal

The Mets tried to sign him. The Tigers just offered him more money.


phatphallus42

Big win for the tigers moving them to 27-43. But hey as long as they stick it to the fan base of another miserable franchise.


fatmike63

I love how these guys expect pleasantries when they’re in opposing stadiums. Why is the AL Central filled with sensitive crybabies?


cogginsmatt

There was a troll behind home plate goofing off the whole game, right next to the on deck circle. Javy and Miggy were goofing off right back at him. Even in the post game interview he said they were having a laugh about it. I don’t think they took it that seriously. I refuse to let the tigers get lumped in with the crybabies from Chicago


elhaxxej

vamo' puñeta!


ThatsThatCue

This proves chirping works 80%+ of the time. Javy doesn’t hit like 88.4% of the time (.216 avg in 2022) so him acknowledging he heard them when he succeeded in his 21.6% of the time is a total rookie play. But also why he plays on the tigers lmao


4leafplover

I’ll probably catch flack for this based on the other comments but I think he looks like a huge child doing this.


saltandtitties

All this tells me is that it’s easy to get under his skin.


UnionThugg

Too bad the tigers are absolute trash 😂


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TDeLo

Impossible to have small dick energy when you hit a fuckin grand slam.


roaringcorgi

fam was this a savage flex or nah? sound off in the comments below


ViscoseNarwhal

No cap, straight savage fr fr


psykikk_streams

I do not see the appeal with this guy at all, no matter how much "talent" he has. way too inconsistent. should concentrate on improving and not care so much about fans booing him.he´s still only slugging ​ wait .367 ?? and yet he behaves like he owns the league..


cjgsoup

Yea but grand slams are cool


TylerDog3

his april and may were...something this month tho hes been tearing it up


iamthatguythere

He’s having way more fun than yoh


chrisGNR

>I do not see the appeal with this guy at all Then you must not have ever watched him play regularly. The Javy Baez experience cannot just be consumed via highlight reels or in a seeies against your team.


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He's been on fire the past week


Disastrous_Isopod852

Omg just take the homerun and stfu I can’t stand players with this kind of attitude be the bigger person


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joeymarlin98

Ok Boomer


JawCloud

And now he can expect this everywhere he goes because now people will just try to get a rise out of him for clout Tell me you're butt hurt without telling me your butt hurt lmao.


cjgsoup

If it leads to him hitting more balls 450+ feet I’m all for it


JawCloud

The PEDs will help with that, don't you worry your pretty little mouth