Addison Russell's Barry Larkin-esque 2040 HOF Primer Thread

[Quality Start Machine]

Wow, this kid's LOCKED IN! He's almost at league-avg for hitting.

Delete your account.

Eat a dick RV. I was saying that he's locked in, and that he's finally about to hit league avg. Considering he hovered around .230 for the 1st half of the season, that's real improvement. Maybe Heyward should be paying attention.

While I'm eating this delicious plate of spotted dick, I will mention that focusing on a 22 year-old defensive stud of a shortstop's ability to achieve a league-average batting average might be missing the point.

Especially since he's above-average by both wRC+ and OPS+, and national league shortstops as a whole are batting .257/.317/.403/.720, so he's well above average for his position.

He's also currently 7th among major league shortstops with a 3.4 WAR, in his first full big-league season. That seems pretty good.

He is lucky that he only has to compete directly with Seager for awards at his position, because it's some real shit luck that he is one of the ten best young shortstop prospects of the last 10-15 years and the 5 or so that might be better than him just happen to be the exact same age he is

Seager has apparently been slightly better defensively as far as fangraphs is concerned but based on their reputation (people questioned whether Seager would even stick at short, long term while Russell has never had that issue) I'd give Addison a real good shot at a gold glove. In the AL I don't think anyone questions that Lindor's going to get that.

Russell will get more World Series rings than Seager. I'm sure he'll be cool with that.

I don't understand what any of this has to do with RV eating dick, something I think we'd all support.

Dead Men Don't Eat Dicks.

It's spotted.  Doesn't that count for anything?

The takeaway here is that PenFoe is a necrophiliac.

[ChuckD]

Barry Larkin doesn't catch that ball.

[Brownie]

Barry Larkin doesn't catch that ball.

I'm sure some residents south of Peoria would tell you Ozzie Smith does.

[Tonker]

Barry Larkin doesn't catch that ball.

Statcast had his route efficiency at 98.5%.  He basically knew where the ball was going to land as soon as it left the bat, and he went straight there.

[ChuckD]

Barry Larkin doesn't catch that ball.

I'm sure some residents south of Peoria would tell you Ozzie Smith does.

Well, I'd agree with them. Ozzie does catch that ball. But Ozzie doesn't slug .426 or reach 30+ career home runs as a 22 year old.

Because Ozzie never did either of those things period

[SKO]

Barry Larkin doesn't catch that ball.

I'm sure some residents south of Peoria would tell you Ozzie Smith does.

If Addison has reached the point already where "Oh yeah? Well Ozzie was better!" is their argument we've already won the fight

[Bort]

Barry Larkin doesn't catch that ball.

I'm sure some residents south of Peoria would tell you Ozzie Smith does.

If Addison has reached the point already where "Oh yeah? Well Ozzie was better!" is their argument we've already won the fight

What is it about methheads and the need to lionize marginal slapdick hitters named Ozzie who have good gloves?

[SKO]

Barry Larkin doesn't catch that ball.

I'm sure some residents south of Peoria would tell you Ozzie Smith does.

If Addison has reached the point already where "Oh yeah? Well Ozzie was better!" is their argument we've already won the fight

What is it about methheads and the need to lionize marginal slapdick hitters named Ozzie who have good gloves?

To be fair Ozzie Smith was worth 67 fWAR in his career. He managed a 6.7 fWAR campaign in 1989 despite a 102 wRC+ because he was insanely good defensively. If Addison is worth 67 wins in his career I'll take it. My point was if Cardinals fans are already resorting to "well he's not as good defensively as the guy widely acknowledged as the greatest defender in MLB history" then they don't realize how good they're saying Addison actually is.

Meanwhile Ozzie Guillen was a replacement level shitbag.

[Bort]

Barry Larkin doesn't catch that ball.

I'm sure some residents south of Peoria would tell you Ozzie Smith does.

If Addison has reached the point already where "Oh yeah? Well Ozzie was better!" is their argument we've already won the fight

What is it about methheads and the need to lionize marginal slapdick hitters named Ozzie who have good gloves?

To be fair Ozzie Smith was worth 67 fWAR in his career. He managed a 6.7 fWAR campaign in 1989 despite a 102 wRC+ because he was insanely good defensively. If Addison is worth 67 wins in his career I'll take it. My point was if Cardinals fans are already resorting to "well he's not as good defensively as the guy widely acknowledged as the greatest defender in MLB history" then they don't realize how good they're saying Addison actually is.

Meanwhile Ozzie Guillen was a replacement level shitbag.

Quiet you, let me have my analogy.

[Quality Start Machine]

Anybody still pushing back on "Best Cubs shortstop since Banks"?

[Saul Goodman]

ADDISON MUSCLE, FEMALE DOGS

[PenFoe]

12 more years on the Cubs and he might become my all-time favorite.

[Brownie]

Anybody still pushing back on "Best Cubs shortstop since Banks"?

Banks was still a Monarch at Addison's age.

[Tonker]

12 more years on the Cubs and he might become my all-time favorite.

Meh.  He'll never be The Mick.

[Quality Start Machine]

Anybody still pushing back on "Best Cubs shortstop since Banks"?

Banks was still a Monarch at Addison's age.

Russell has better knees.