Is it time to start worrying about Geo?

It appears to me as if Geo has put on weight from last year.

because:

1) As Al said, he’s overweight and appears out of shape, and
2) He’s battling a shoulder injury

Ordinarily, I’d dismiss his slow start due to sample size but there are identifiable factors that appear to be holding Geo back. Soto is an incredible asset to the lineup, and the Cubs are not the same team without a productive Geo.

to start worrying. What was all the B.S. that we heard about Soto coming to camp in great shape. I’m positive I heard that somewhere.

The biggest reason he’s not even close to himself is the thing I believe Al worried about when they brought him up. He almost refuses, or plain out can’t hit to right field. He pulls off outside pitches as bad as anyone I’ve seen.

The biggest reason it worries me is because they really do need his bat. He’s really a dead out at this point. I say play Hill. He has done nothing but show he’ll put up better numbers than Geo at this point. I hope like hell Geo pulls out of it.

Does anyone know what his weight is compared to last year?

but I like that Lou is giving Geo the chance to work his way through it. He’s such a great leader of this pitching staff, he calles a good game behind the plate, and he’s good defensively. He has gone through slumps before, and I think that as a whole what he’s giving us right now is helping the team more than hurting it.

Last year on May 8th, Geo had 6 HR’s and 24 RBI’s with a line of .345/.447/.645/1.092.

I, too, would like to see Koyie Hill get more playing time as long as Geo keeps failing.

So, yeah, worry away. He’s still the team’s starting catcher, so we’ll probably be getting plenty of opportunties to see him either continue to struggle or stage some sort of comeback. I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing Koyie Hill sprinkled a little more liberally into the Cubs starting lineups.

As a parting point of some optimism, however, I’d note that Geo has had less than 100 PAs and only 68 ABs, so he’s still got a long, long way to go.

we havent worried in about a week, lets start again

SARCASM!!!

why worry. If he goes 1-5 like last night his average goes up~

Let him get back into shape then shake out that Sophomore slump.

Looks overweight and can’t drive the ball anymore. They keep saying it looks like he is seeing the ball better and might be coming out of his slump, but it isn’t happening.

BB mentioned usually when you get to 100 ab’s, you start to worry a little bit.

Unfortunately, all of this speculation won’t play out for awhile. If he continues to flounder, he’ll get a semi-pass as possibly succumbing to a sophomore slump. And maybe that’s what this is. I HOPE that’s what this is.

Still, until he starts hitting, the ghost of Rick Wilkins is going to be haunting him.

I think that is a major component. Lou himself has even said he is still basically in Spring Training. Not catching in WBC hurt. Not hitting vs MLB caliber pitching hurt. All those WBC off days hurt. His defense was suspect and just looked rusty, his arm looked weak, and Brenly mentioned his foot worked looked slow. Well recently Geo has thrown some great throws and Bob says his foot work is much better. Normally in spring training and at the beginning of season hitting is the last thing to come around. In the Florida series he had a couple of well struck balls driven to right, probably would have had a home run or 2 but wind was blowing in. So hopefully that means his offensive break out is right around the corner. And even last year geovany is a streaky hitter. Remember he got off to great start, had a rough spot including that Washington series, got hot again, slumped. I believe just a matter of time until he breaks out of it in big way.