Photo courtesy of Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY Sports Hello, readers. First of all, I’d like to mention that there are no odds and ends today as there wasn’t much spare news coming out of the system this weekend. I will, however, say that many of the top prospects in the organization continued to perform really well, and […]
Day: May 18, 2015
The 2015 Ballad of Jon Lester: Start No. 8
Photo courtesy of Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Date: May 16 Opponent: Pittsburgh Pirates Location: Wrigley Field Introduction For frontline starting pitchers, some starts are memorable for taking place in either the first week of April (Lester’s Opening Night start vs. St. Louis) or the last week of October; some are memorable for their sheer dominance […]
Was Castro’s Mild Dash Worth It?
Photo courtesy of David Banks-USA TODAY Sports My wife and I were driving to Chicago last Friday to help our younger daughter move from one Lakeview apartment to another. It really wasn’t the ideal time to move, with the Cubs at home, but a confluence of events made these days the only ones that would […]