Bryan LaHair

[fenrir]

His batting line is currently .384/.476/.767. The guy is statistically on par with Kemp and Hamilton thus far. Is this a superstar in the making? Will he be able to sustain his success throughout the season?

[dominik]

he is nearly 30 so he likely won't be a superstar considering this is his first real shot in the majors.

He won't keep that up but he is a good player. his chance came way too late. the problem is his draft position. top prospects get a million chances even if they suck. but he was drafted 39th round. those guys usually don't get a shot. MLB scouts say that guys after round 20 are not expected to be prospects,they are there so that the real prospects have someone to play with.

you have to rake extremely to make it out of such a draft slot. even mike piazza was 24 in his first full season (still young of course but rather old for a HOFer who are usually up full time at age 21).

[Blackout]

he's the man

[Cap78]

he gives us Cubs fans something to smile about at this point...when Anthony Rizzo comes up, it will be interesting to see what happens...probably move LaHair to outfield?

[tag0519]

Yes he is 29. LaHair should have been brought up in 2010. He was tearing it up in AAA. Its unfortunate that this "holding back" occurs with some players.

[Ubiquitous]

LaHair couldn't hit lefties for most of his career. Still can't really and for the most part his bat against righties was never really good enough to justify being a major league first baseman until very recently. He wasn't very good in the outfield defensively either. So that limits your options. He had the misfortune of coming up when the Mariners had Ichiro and Ibanez at the corners and Richie Sexson at first. In 2008 LaHair got called up in July at the age of 25 and started in 39 of the last 66 games of that season. He faced mostly righties and didn't hit all that well. After that he was kind of written off.

[Ubiquitous]

LaHair is going to seriously fall back to earth the rest of the season. He's gone 1 for 10 in his last 2 games and has seen his line tumble to .354/.447/.698. He's lost 100 points of OPS in just two games. The guy knows how to take a walk but he strikes out a ton. He's averaging more than a strikeout every 3 at bats, which is really high. What's saving him is his amazingly high BABIP which is .473 overall and .523 against righties. That isn't going to continue.

I'd say a great line for LaHair from here to the end of the season would be .290/.390/.530. I also think that it could get a whole lot worse than that.

[Zito75]

Rizzo who?

[Bigfoot 88]

Rizzo who?

Well, he is raking in AAA right now.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=rizzo-001ant

[Ubiquitous]

1 for his last 14 so far.

[dominik]

1 for his last 14 so far.

seems like you enjoy that he finally starts hitting like a Cub

[Zito75]

Well, he is raking in AAA right now.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/mi...d=rizzo-001ant

Yeah well he did the same last year then fizzled when he was recalled...

[GiambiJuice]

.235/.299/.388 over his last 29 games. He's come back to earth, not surprisingly.

[Ubiquitous]

He's actually not hitting as bad as that for the last 10 to 15 games. He had a really cold stretch in May and got hot again at the end of May and beginning of June.

[Rich the Giants fan]

His batting line is currently .384/.476/.767. The guy is statistically on par with Kemp and Hamilton thus far. Is this a superstar in the making? Will he be able to sustain his success throughout the season?

Batting .191/.272/.303 over his last 56 games since June 6 and .204/.278/.329 in 77 games since this post was started. Only 7 HR and 16 RBI in almost four months, with 83 strikeouts, and he's become a role player, mostly coming off the bench to pinch-hit.

Question answered.