Top Play (WPA): The Cubs came into this game having won four games in a row, beating the Dodgers in the two games that Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke started. So naturally, with a guy that the Dodgers purchased with cash from the Arizona Diamondbacks on the mound, the Cubs would struggle to get runs […]
Day: June 25, 2015
Travis Wood, Shutdown Reliever
Cubs fans have short memories. Travis Wood was actually really good in 2013, his second full season with the team. I mean, I know you, the educated reader, know he was really good, but perhaps the average reader wouldn’t know that his 4.2 DRA-derived WAR that season—which is a measure of a pitcher’s overall contribution to his team—was 11th […]
Cubs Draft History
The 2015 MLB draft occurred a couple weeks ago, and at this point everything is pure speculation. Cubs first-round pick Ian Happ is already fueling hype by hitting two home runs in his first five games through Tuesday at Eugene in the short-season Northwest League, but I’ll leave that to others to dream about what […]