Have you heard? Kyle Schwarber might be back. It’s not often that the final slot on a roster gets quite this much attention, or inspires quite this much excitement. It’s the World Series, so every decision will be analyzed over and over again, but it’s the World Series, so you’d think there’d be a more […]
Author: Henry Druschel
Playoff Prospectus: RIP, Even Year Magic
The piece previewed here, written by BP Wrigleyville’s Henry Druschel, forms part of the main site’s comprehensive coverage of the playoffs, “Playoff Prospectus.” Additional Game Four coverage, exclusive to BP Wrigleyville, can be found here, under the name “Second City October”. For eight innings, this was a boring game. It’s playoff baseball, so there’s a pretty high […]
Second City October: Cubs’ Men Up The Middle Win It
This piece, written by BP Wrigleyville’s Henry Druschel, forms part of our in-house coverage of the Cubs in the playoffs, “Second City October”. Additional NLDS Game One coverage, written by Rian Watt and originally run on the main site’s series “Playoff Prospectus,” can be found here. People will often look for fluctuations in a win probability graph as a marker of […]
Second City October: NLDS Game One Preview, Giants (0-0) at Cubs (0-0)
Well! It’s finally the actual day. There’s been a lot of previewing and a lot of anticipating and a lot of planning, and today, we get to actually watch some baseball get played. Let’s get right to it. Starting Pitching Jon Lester (202.7 IP/2.44 ERA/3.10 DRA) vs. Johnny Cueto (219.7 IP/2.79 ERA/3.54 DRA) It’s a […]
Second City October: NLDS Series Preview
This piece, written by BP Wrigleyville’s Henry Druschel, forms part of our in-house coverage of the Cubs in the playoffs, “Second City October”. Additional NLDS coverage, written by Rian Watt and originally run on the main site’s series “Playoff Prospectus,” can be found here. They’ve been a long, long time in coming, but the real playoffs are finally here. The […]
Game 123 Recap: Rockies 11 Cubs 4
Whoof. Let’s keep this quick, shall we? If there’s any mercy in the Cubs’ ugly loss today, it’s that it didn’t drag out. This wasn’t Friday night’s/Saturday morning’s grueling, rain delayed, 11-inning loss, where if you stayed up for six and a half hours after the scheduled start, you were rewarded with a heartbreaking, last-minute […]
Game 121 Recap: Cubs 6 Rockies 7 (11)
This was a weird game. Coors Field has a reputation for pumped-up offense, and while it can be exaggerated at times, it’s very much deserved. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t surprised when Dexter Fowler opened the game with a home run, but, y’know. Coors. And it doesn’t mean I wasn’t surprised when David Dahl led off […]
It’s Time For The Cubs to Prepare for the Playoffs
With eight weeks of regular season baseball remaining, the Cubs have assumed a commanding position in the standings. Even allowing for Sunday’s loss to the Cardinals, Chicago still has a commanding twelve-game lead over St. Louis in the NL Central. With that kind of margin in mid-August, and a roster with as much talent as this one has, the Cubs […]
Adam Warren’s Confusing Chicago Tenure
Aroldis Chapman made his first appearance for the Cubs on Wednesday, as I’m sure you were aware. Chapman has dominated the discourse for the last week, for obvious reasons; he is an electric and talented baseball player, who also fired eight shots from a handgun during an argument with his girlfriend in October, and allegedly […]
Game 97 Recap: Cubs 6 Brewers 5
I had high expectations for today’s game. Before this season, Jon Lester versus Junior Guerra wouldn’t have sounded like anything to look forward to; I’m not really sure what it would have sounded like, since Junior Guerra was not a name I knew. But in 2016, however, the two pitchers have been remarkably similar, and both quite […]