Top Play (WPA): It’s fun for me to get to recap a Cubs victory, because it doesn’t happen for me all that often. The Cubs 11th win in their last 12 games takes my recap record to 4-9 on the season (you care, I know). Of course, that’s extremely trivial, but I still find it […]
Day: August 11, 2015
These Old(-Er) Cubs: Veteran Presence on the 2015 Cubs
It takes a village, or so people always say. This is, of course, certainly true of the 2015 Cubs. The team is hot right now, and the focus has been on the rookie group of Kris Bryant, Addison Russell, Jorge Soler, and Kyle Schwarber. There’s no question that the youngest members of the Cubs have […]
The Echoing Silence of Starlin Castro’s Bat
“Addison is the shortstop today, he could be the shortstop tomorrow” – Joe Maddon And so Castro sits, under the weight of a -0.1 WARP, under the weight of his .236/.271/.304 slash line, under the weight of unimproved defense and mental lapses, under the weight of it all, he sits. The future that Theo Epstein […]
What’s Up With: Tommy Hunter
On Sunday, July 24, 2016, the second-best left-handed outfielder ever born on November 21st in Denora, Pennsylvania, will stride across a dais in Cooperstown, New York, and into baseball immortality. I can say that with such certainty, before a single writer has called his name, because the 630 home runs he hit over a dazzling 22-year […]