Top Play (WPA): I wish I was writing about something different here, but I’m not. This game looked like it might be the Cubs’ to win—see ‘Key Moment’, below—but it slipped out of their grasp seconds after the ball slipped out of Hector Rondon’s right hand and collided, shortly thereafter, with Joey Votto’s bat. That home run (+0.485) […]
Day: September 2, 2015
Young Cubs Special Edition – The Arizona Fall League
Arizona’s brick red landscape is paved with unfulfilled potential and broken promises; the kinds of stories that you read about years later and wonder what the hell you were thinking exactly. Arizona is also home to the types of stories that make you want to believe in projection, plus bat speed, elite fastballs, and breaking […]
That’s So Cub: A Look at the Top August Contributors and Moments
It’s the beginning of September, which not only means that kids head back to school and beer gardens become a lot less fun, but also that I, as I have since the beginning of time the beginning of the season, will sit down and write about the top Cubs’ contributors and moments from the previous month. If you want […]