This one was a five hour barrel of laughs, let me tell you. Top Play (WPA): Here’s the cool news: Kris Bryant homered again (+.054). It was a solo shot off Mets starter Jacob deGrom in the fourth inning, and it broke up the no-hitter that the talented right-hander was spinning at the time. The […]
Day: July 1, 2016
Overrated or Not, Kris Bryant Remains Misunderstood
Monday night belonged to Kris Bryant, whose three-homer, two-double onslaught made everything else fade into the background. Bryant is a focal point of the media attention around the Cubs almost all the time, but when a performance like Monday’s happens, he becomes the ubiquitous talk of Baseball Twitter for a while. There was a lot […]
Stuck in the Middle With Dan Vogelbach: Three Ideas Out of Left Field
My daughter has 32 stuffed animals on her bed. If I were to take 5 of them and throw them in the trash when she wasn’t looking, she’d never notice. She plays with the same two all the time (a cat and a bunny), while the rest simply take up space and no doubt feel […]