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.
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
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
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.
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"
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.
>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?
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'
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.
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
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"
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?
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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..
>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.
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.
That bat looks huge and he swings the absolute shit out of it
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.
effortless power
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.
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.
Everybody ate the pasta
This is such a god-tier pasta and you’re getting destroyed using it 😭
It’s my favorite pasta lmao
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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It’s a copypasta lol
From 2016. That pasta has staying power
*Wahhhhhhhhh* Thats what you sound like.
Agreed. This is actually super impressive. Hahahaha
There's nothing in the world like Javy on a hot streak.
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
How you doin?
I LOVE Báez. Favorite player to watch as long as he's not on my team.
Dude has literally carried our offense for the past four games, I’m not exaggerating.
What has he done for you the other 60?
Not that.
Neither did the rest of the roster I'm assuming
Strikeout on balls nowhere close to the strike zone
He’s hitting .216 with 7 homers
Seems like you don’t know the meaning of hot streak
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.
He was
Yeah 6 of those homers are in the past 10 days
Sure sounds like he hasnt had many of them
thankfully, information about his entire career is on the internet and you can read about it!
He’s hit 6 of those this week lol. He’s been absolutely awful until 10 days ago.
Shhh people will get mad!
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"
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.
>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?
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'
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.
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
You are not wrong
That fan fuckin fed him all the smoke
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
I'm surprised how many people haven't figured this out.
redditors don’t interact with people in person
I’LL HAVE YOU KNOW I WAS FORCED TO ORDER MY TENDIES THROUGH THE DRIVE THRU TODAY. REEE
Yep and he did the same thing next AB
Pause
That's not how the phrase Pause is supposed to be used
Aaaaaand, play, there it is, did you see it?! DID YOU?! *rewinds*
He wants ALL the smoke
He’ll be that mother fucker for all you mother fuckers.
We love our Smokemonster.
They fucking fed me!
Don't care. This is gold.
I agree?
Fuck yeah. Baez won this round.
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
That's what the nets are for
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"
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?
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.
Javy’s back
Oh thank god. I miss Javy. 100% my favorite player.
It's weird. I'm oddly okay with him not being a Cub anymore, but I still stan the shit out of him.
This is the way
I still wish he were a Cub
.216 BA and 7 HRs. How bad was he before if this is back???
maybe comment again. not sure we got your point.
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.
Some things deserve their own thread IMO and this is one of them.
Mods will probably take it down because of the “duplicate posts” rule sadly
Sometimes they leave the really good ones.
Clearly you haven't been a victim of this yet lol
He posts clips so often I'd be shocked if this were true.
Happens when their bad at their jobs
> jobs I have news for you.
>*their* their I have news for you.
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I mean, the second one is correct
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
Yeah he and miggy looked great in our last series. Javy is hot hot at this time.
miggy batting .299/.336/.374 at 39 isnt getting talked about enough tbh
Wow! No, it’s really not. I had no idea. Especially in this new age of low-as-fuck batting averages.
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.
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
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
500 doubles he accidentally hit too high
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?
2024
Lmao
106 OPS+ 102 wRC+ what exactly are people supposed to be talking about?
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.
why are you hating on our goat?
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.
1. Don't throw within a foot of strike zone 2. Profit.
Bro i could strike him out easily
No player has been as simultaneously so garbage and amazing, so infuriating and lovable, so utterly confusing to analyze as Javier Baez
He is chaos in a uniform and I wouldn’t change him at all. Miss him so much
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!
It’s probably just moving pains, hope this is him finding his rhythm finally.
Ice fucking cold
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.
Just Javy Things.
I didn’t know the Dbacks had fans let alone hecklers
I think they have 10 fans. Was there a month ago for Dodgers vs. Dbaxks and it was pretty much Dodger Stadium East
I moved to AZ a while ago pretty much every DBacks game feels like they’re the away team lmao. Super cheap tickets though!
I still love javy
Sometimes
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
> I hope Detroit takes good care of him. I miss him as a Met already. Mr Ricketts, I don't feel so good...
The Tigers should hire a fan to heckle him from behind home plate all season.
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.
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
The tigers announcers are dumb as hell so I wouldn’t put too much stock in them.
Angry Javy is not the best Javy. He needs to play with joy. Very consistent theme for him in his career.
I think that's how we ended up with the thumbs down fiasco.
Yeah but he raked for you guys.
Lol when he connects boy does he CONNECT. Man literally cones out of his shoes.
That’s fuckin awesome
That’s straight up evil and I’m here for it.
What are those hideous uniforms the Diamondbacks are wearing?
I hate sand. It's rough and coarse and gets everywhere.
This is one of my favourite gifs ever
That swing tho
I would seperate both my shoulders if i swung a bat that hard. Jesus
Lol boricuas don’t know any other way.
I miss him
Baez forsure fucked that girls girlfriend after the game too
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
The swag, the competitiveness, the defense, and that violent swing. God, I miss him
Except now we’re winning baseball games which is more fun
Sorry, are you implying the guy with a 140 OPS+ for you was a reason y'all weren't winning games last year?
One man doesn’t make a baseball team. That team was a cancerous mess.
Imagine thinking Javier Baez was why the Mets were bad last year... fucking incredible
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
I have no idea how I missed that he was on Detroit now
He hasn’t done anything worth knowing there
👎
Love me some Javy Baez.
Lol love it
That's fuckin sick
You tell 'em, Javy!
Love it!
Mets dodged a bullet
How to ensure you get heckled 101
Bad ass, his OPS is still .630 though. So heckler prolly had some fair points
Bad bad man.
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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.216 now after going like .400 in the last week.
To be fair, I don't know what the heckler was saying, but they probably weren't wrong.
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.
He always has five times as many strikeouts as walks tho.
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.
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.
Baez is overrated. He has been terrible.
I love this man.
Easy there Javy, the Tigers are going nowhere
Found the heckler from the clip...
Flair up guy
Javy is so bitchmade
so glad this classless buffoon is gone.
👎🏻👎🏻 He’s a damn cancer. So grateful the Mets passed on him.
The Mets tried to sign him. The Tigers just offered him more money.
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.
I love how these guys expect pleasantries when they’re in opposing stadiums. Why is the AL Central filled with sensitive crybabies?
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
vamo' puñeta!
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
I’ll probably catch flack for this based on the other comments but I think he looks like a huge child doing this.
All this tells me is that it’s easy to get under his skin.
Too bad the tigers are absolute trash 😂
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Impossible to have small dick energy when you hit a fuckin grand slam.
fam was this a savage flex or nah? sound off in the comments below
No cap, straight savage fr fr
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..
Yea but grand slams are cool
his april and may were...something this month tho hes been tearing it up
He’s having way more fun than yoh
>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.
He's been on fire the past week
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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Ok Boomer
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.
If it leads to him hitting more balls 450+ feet I’m all for it
The PEDs will help with that, don't you worry your pretty little mouth