Welcome to another installment of Inside the At-Bat, BP Wrigleyville’s semi-regular feature breaking down a key battle in the season’s biggest series and most intriguing matchups. The pieces are completed sometime around 1:30 AM EST, so please forgive typos, errant Brooks Baseball charts, and Bob’s Burgers dialogue typed out accidentally by our exhaustive scribe. Tonight, […]
Day: April 12, 2016
In 2016, Lefties Might Not Be a Thorn in Cubs’ Side
For six and two-thirds innings on Monday night, the Reds’ Brandon Finnegan looked like Cole Hamels reincarnate—or, I guess, Koufax—while he baffled the Cubs’ litany of sluggers and held them to nary a hit. Perhaps this rekindled concerns about the Cubs’ poor 2015 versus left-handers, a team that, against lefties, featured a poor .691 OPS and sank to […]
Off Day Trivia: A Few Things About These Cubs
Every now and then I like to play around with filters on stat sheets to compare players, and most of those searches, as you might imagine, are Cubs-centric. Given that it’s an off-day, today seems like a good day to share some of the tidbits I’ve collected, some through my own research, others through the […]