Last month, I took a look at one of the least glamorous, least sexy topics a baseball writer can tackle this side of rosin bag supply chain studies*: attendance. Outside of an in-stadium guessing game in the later innings, you don’t really think too much about attendance, especially as a Chicago Cubs fan, where the […]
Day: May 22, 2015
Six Hypotheses About a Bullpen
Photo courtesy of Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs’ bullpen is, incontrovertibly, not very good this year. Joe Maddon, usually cagey to a fault about criticizing his team in public, recently labeled the ‘pen’s inability to perform the team’s “Number One Problem” (capital letters added for emphasis). The numbers back him up. Here’s the bullpen’s […]
YOUNG CUBS: IS THERE A DOCTOR ON THE PLANE?!
Photo courtesy of Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Hello, readers. Sometimes, the news isn’t all that great. In the last two days alone we’ve seen two major prospect injuries. We don’t really know the severity of either injury yet, but it’s a sobering reminder of all the little things that can go wrong in the […]