BRYAN LAHAIR RUMORS & GOSSIP
MLB Rumors: Bryan LaHair Goes From Chicago Cubs All-Star To Japanese Pacific League In 4 Short Months?
Bryan LaHair went from being a can’t miss Major League Baseball prospect with the Seattle Mariners to the next big thing for the Chicago Cubs. After appearing in just 20 games for Chicago in 2011, LaHair got off to a blazing start with the Cubs in 2012. So hot, in fact, that he was a Cubs’ representative in the 2012 MLB All-Star game in Kansas City, going into the game with a...
Bryan LaHair set to join Japanese team
Bryan LaHair went from unheard-of to the National League All-Star team in 2012. He’s set to depart the major leagues just as quick. LaHair, who struggled in the second half, was recently designated for assignment and now appears to be headed to Japan.
The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks are on the verge of signing LaHair who spent all of 2012 with the Chicago Cubs. Already a trade candidate...
What is Japanese for LaBomb?
Bryan LaHair was designated for assignment today. I think we generally hoped he would have a teeny tiny bit of trade value, but maybe he didn't or maybe the Cubs thought they should do right by him and just let him go so he can pursue an opportunity elsewhere (the talks of Japan are most [...]
Chicago Cubs 50-game report card
The Cubs are 18-32 at the end of May. 30% of their season completed and they currently are tied with Minnesota for the second worst record in baseball. In May they suffered through a 12 game losing streak that exposed all the warts on the team. The losing streak was comprised of poor hitting, pitching, bullpen, fielding, base running, coaching and a bad call or two peppered...
Is Bryan LaHair’s Success Sustainable?
A visual analysis of Bryan LaHair’s swing.
Yes. Cubs first baseman Bryan LaHair will sustain his success. The Cubs have indeed caught lightning in a bottle.
LaHair is leading the MLB with a .510 BABIP and is third behind Matt Kemp and Josh Hamilton with a 36.4% HR/FB ratio. Fans of Chicago’s northside and fans of regression to the mean have begun to pay extra close attention...
Bryan LaHair’s Fantastic Start
Some Cubs fans entered the season with relatively high expectations for Bryan LaHair. Others weren't optimistic at all. I was somewhere in between. I was fairly certain LaHair's numbers were so damn good at AAA that it indicated he should probably be about a league average ballplayer at the MLB level. To this point we've [...]
Cubs were confident LaHair would be this good
It's getting deep enough into the season now to begin believing Chicago Cubs first baseman Bryan LaHair is the real thing. LaHair leads major league first basemen with eight home runs, with the latest coming Monday night in the Cubs' 5-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves at Wrigley Field. "He's just carrying out what he's done over the last year and in winter...
Rizzo who? Bryan LaHair is the Cubs first baseman!
Sometimes all you need is a chance to prove yourself and Bryan LaHair is doing just that.
After languishing in the minors for 9 seasons, the Cubs are the first team to finally give LaHair a chance to show what he can do on the major league stage. So far, the results have been spectacular.
Through 20 games, LaHair has a slash line of .390/.471/.780 for an obscene OPS of 1.251...
Via Cubs Billy Goat Blog
May 01, 2012
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LaHair connects on homer to end Cubs' drought
The Chicago Cubs were in a major home-run drought. It had been since April 13 since their last homer, when Bryan LaHair and Ian Stewart
connected in St. Louis. LaHair ended that drought in the ninth inning of the Cubs' 3-2,
10-inning victory Tuesday night over those same Cardinals, this time at Wrigley Field. Manager Dale Sveum is fully aware what had been going on....
Bryan LaHair: What to Expect from the Cubs’ Opening Day First Baseman
The Cubs are giving Bryan LaHair, 29 and a career minor leaguer, his shot as a major league regular in 2012. The first base job is LaHair’s to lose going in to the season. What are reasonable expectations for this minor league journeyman with only 65 major league games under his belt?
In LaHair’s previous 219 major league plate appearances, he posted a .262 batting average...
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