JBJ exercises player option for 2022 season

[adambr2]

 

No surprise here. Here's hoping for a better outcome.

[TURBO]

crap.

[Eye Black]

Here's hoping for a better outcome.

Well the good news, at least on the offensive end, is it would be pretty hard to have a worse outcome.

[yourout]

Here's hoping for a better outcome.

Well the good news, at least on the offensive end, is it would be pretty hard to have a worse outcome.

 

Maybe a new hitting coach can at least squeeze an average season from him at the plate. .240 would be a good goal.

[DHonks]

If he bunted in every at bat, think his average could be higher?

[torts]

Welcome back, JBJ!

[Underachiever]

Nice. Brewers sign a Gold Glove finalist for their outfield.

[SRB]

He was a 4-5 WAR player as recently as 2020. Here's hoping for a rebound.

[brewmann04]

Stunned

[wntrtxn21]

He was a 4-5 WAR player as recently as 2020. Here's hoping for a rebound.

 

Was JBJ ever a 3-4 WAR player other than his great season in 2016? I couldn't find all the WARs for him, but I don't remember him being that good other than his one great year.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

He was a 4-5 WAR player as recently as 2020. Here's hoping for a rebound.

 

Was JBJ ever a 3-4 WAR player other than his great season in 2016? I couldn't find all the WARs for him, but I don't remember him being that good other than his one great year.

 

If you take his stats from the adjuncticated 2020 season and ratio'd them out over a full season, it would have been right up there. But that a little disingenuous I think.

[TURBO]

C'mon guys.

 

This is not good, you can slice this any way you want, but it is still a big poop sandwich.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

C'mon guys.

 

This is not good, you can slice this any way you want, but it is still a big poop sandwich.

 

Not great. But also 100% expected. There was a below 0% chance he wasn't going to exercise that option after the season he had.

[TURBO]

C'mon guys.

 

This is not good, you can slice this any way you want, but it is still a big poop sandwich.

 

Not great. But also 100% expected. There was a below 0% chance he wasn't going to exercise that option after the season he had.

 

 

Agreed, but sometimes a lemon is a lemon, and JBJ is a giant lemon.

 

It's ok to admit it.

 

Just a huge waste of money, and now we have to deal with it.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

C'mon guys.

 

This is not good, you can slice this any way you want, but it is still a big poop sandwich.

 

Not great. But also 100% expected. There was a below 0% chance he wasn't going to exercise that option after the season he had.

 

 

Agreed, but sometimes a lemon is a lemon, and JBJ is a giant lemon.

 

It's ok to admit it.

 

Just a huge waste of money, and now we have to deal with it.

 

Who isn't admitting it? He sucked. Which is 100% the reason he didn't opt out. That player option was smart on his part.

[TURBO]

People in this thread welcoming him back, saying he is a gold glove finalist, etc.

 

He is/was a bust.

 

What kind of rebound can we hope for? A guy who might hit .210?

 

He is crap on a cracker, I'd like to out and out cut him to be honest. I can't sit through another season of watching him hit, I just can't.

 

I'd rather give Ray a shot, he can't be any worse than what we had to endure last season from JBJ.

[brewerfan82]

100% expected. And while I don't expect him to necessarily be a plus player (although his defense makes that a possibility still even if he's below average offensively), I do expect some sort of bounce back next year. People were grumbling about being stuck with Narvaez and Garcia this time last year too. Players that have their worst season ever tend to do better to at least some extent the next year.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

People in this thread welcoming him back, saying he is a gold glove finalist, etc.

 

He is/was a bust.

 

What kind of rebound can we hope for? A guy who might hit .210?

 

He is crap on a cracker, I'd like to out and out cut him to be honest. I can't sit through another season of watching him hit, I just can't.

 

I'd rather give Ray a shot, he can't be any worse than what we had to endure last season from JBJ.

 

So you are upset that there are fans grasping at the idea of a silver lining in what was an inevitable situation with him exercising his option? Come on dude, you are better than that.

 

If JBJ shows up next spring and looks the same as he did this year, I doubt the leash is going to be very long. But he's a sunken cost regardless, so might as well bring him back and see if he can provide any value to offset his cost. But yeah, right now at least, this looks like one of the rare "misses" of the Stearns era.

[ThisIsMyCrew]

100% expected. And while I don't expect him to necessarily be a plus player (although his defense makes that a possibility still even if he's below average offensively), I do expect some sort of bounce back next year. People were grumbling about being stuck with Narvaez and Garcia this time last year too. Players that have their worst season ever tend to do better to at least some extent the next year.

 

Unless your name is Chris Davis then you progressively get worse.

[TURBO]

Come on dude, you are better than that.

 

 

please...

[Joseph Zarr]

JBJ. Well, it was destiny’s hand here. Oh well.

[SRB]

People in this thread welcoming him back, saying he is a gold glove finalist, etc.

 

He is/was a bust.

 

What kind of rebound can we hope for? A guy who might hit .210?

 

He is crap on a cracker, I'd like to out and out cut him to be honest. I can't sit through another season of watching him hit, I just can't.

 

I'd rather give Ray a shot, he can't be any worse than what we had to endure last season from JBJ.

 

He's an extremely inconsistent player who has had great seasons and bad seasons. Last season was the worst of his career. To confidently declare that he will not be better in 2021 makes little sense given the lack of any major injury. There's reason to be optimistic.

[DuWayne Steurer]

They have to pay him for 2022, no matter what. It makes almost no sense to not bring him in, see if he can play a day or two a week and see if he can do SOMETHING to put his awful 2021 behind him. If he can't, if he continues to be suck-city, then so be it. You cut him, and pay him and move on and probably find a scrap heap guy at minimum wage who's going to suck but maybe hit .215 with a little power or something. As it is now, they HAVE to pay him, so there's no harm other than using the last roster spot to see if he can be something more than 2021 JBJ, and that's usually someone like Pablo Reyes or Daniel Robertson, so like I said, there's no harm in seeing if he can turn it around.

[TURBO]

People in this thread welcoming him back, saying he is a gold glove finalist, etc.

 

He is/was a bust.

 

What kind of rebound can we hope for? A guy who might hit .210?

 

He is crap on a cracker, I'd like to out and out cut him to be honest. I can't sit through another season of watching him hit, I just can't.

 

I'd rather give Ray a shot, he can't be any worse than what we had to endure last season from JBJ.

 

He's an extremely inconsistent player who has had great seasons and bad seasons. Last season was the worst of his career. To confidently declare that he will not be better in 2021 makes little sense given the lack of any major injury. There's reason to be optimistic.

 

To confidently say there is reason to be optimistic makes little sense given the putrid year he had last season.

[TURBO]

Look, I get it, we are stuck with him, and it would be stupid to cut him now, but I would give him a very short leash, and if he hasn't produced something offensively by the end of May, I'd cut him loose and eat the salary.

 

We can't afford to keep him on, waiting the entire season for the good JBJ. By that time the damage has been done.

 

Give him a shot at the 4th or 5th OF, and see where that leads, but please, for the love of God, don't count on him as a starter or a guy that will give us meaningful at bats.