When I last wrote about Kris Bryant, he was coming off the worst month of his short career (a July in which he posted an OPS of .639) and was adjusting to many things about his new environment, including the low strike (which he told me about for that most-recent piece). However, things have shifted quickly, […]
Day: August 26, 2015
That’s Just Some Cub Luck: How Chance Has Affected the 2015 Cubs
Cubs fans tend to have a certain fatalism about them. When things are going well, we’re constantly searching for where and when things can and will go wrong. When things are going poorly, we lose our minds and declare all hope lost. This is understandable, given the context of the Cubs’ existence. Going 107 years […]
Game 124 Recap: Cubs 8 Giants 5
Top Play (WPA): The top play of this mostly very fun night came when Kyle Schwarber did this to a baseball (.306): This three-run homer in the third inning off of Matt Cain gave the Cubs a lead that they would never relinquish. Coming into tonight, Schwarber had been 3 for his last 26, including a four-strikeout […]
The 2015 Ballad of Jon Lester: Start No. 25
Introduction Baseball has been described many ways by many people, but bizarre and g**damn frustrating has to be at the top of everybody’s list. On a sunny, late-summer Monday afternoon on the North Side, Jon Lester outdueled reigning American Cy Young winner Corey Kluber of the Cleveland Indians in his most efficient start as a […]