Position: Starting Pitcher, tenure track 2017 Stats: 7-5, 3.03 ERA/3.89 FIP/3.31 DRA, 7.9 K/9, 3.5 WARP Year in Review: One of the curses of maxing out in the upper 80s with your fastball is that no matter how many times you prove that you’re one of the best pitchers in baseball, everyone in the game […]
Author: Ken Schultz
NLCS Game 5: Dodgers 11, Cubs 1
It is official. We now have scientific proof. 2016 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2017. Unfortunately, the 2017 Dodgers are also > the 2017 Cubs. Tonight was going to be a tough task with the Cubs taking on Clayton Kershaw in an elimination game. As you know, Kershaw is the modern day Sandy Koufax, so the best conceivable strategy […]
NLDS Game 5: Cubs 9, Nationals 8
I am speechless. I am without speech. This was the kind of win where I really have to work to find the right words to describe the joy of getting to witness it. And it’s ultimately fruitless because it’s the kind of euphoria where if I were able to capture it in words, it would […]
NLDS Game 1 Recap: Cubs 3, Nationals 0
If I could turn back time, there are three things I would do immediately… 1. Take back those words that hurt you and you’d stay 2. Unless you’re Baby Hitler, in which case you’re toast 3. Travel back to the second inning of tonight’s game and bet every cent I own that the Cubs will […]
Dusty-proofing the Nationals
“Showed exactly what we thought. Nothing major. More of a tool to help know how we need to treat it. We have a pretty good idea of what we need to be able to do to get back out there. The good news thing about this is I can walk and run around on this. […]
Game 157 Recap: Cardinals 8, Cubs 7
I’m…not sure what that game was. Unfortunately, the one thing that I know was that it was not a Division Clincher. Here’s why it would be really nice to do it at Busch Stadium…on one of the crowd shots tonight, the CSN cameras found a fan seated in the first base side box seats wearing […]
Game 154 Recap: Brewers 4 Cubs 3 BARF
The thing about being a closer, of course, is that there’s no such thing as a good time for a blown save. I suppose the only thing worse is blowing your own win the very next inning after blowing said save. That was incredible ballgame. And it truly sucked. What You Need To Know: If […]
Justin Wilson: As Frustrating to Acquire As He Is to Watch
It has been brought to my attention recently that I’ve been contributing to BP Wrigleyville for about a year and a half and up until now, I have been in violation of the baseball blogger code by neglecting to do a Player A vs. Player B breakdown. Mea culpa. You know the kind I’m talking […]
Game 145 Recap: Cubs 17, Mets 5
That was a slog. But…the good kind? It was the kind of night where announcers fill time by saying things like, “Well, that wasn’t an oil painting but it got the job done.” This one was about four years of Bob Ross videos away from being Dogs Playing Poker. At 7:05 pm tonight, Kerwin Danley […]
How Have the Cubs Made Up for Willson Contreras’s Absence?
One of the many unique aspects of baseball is that it’s one of the few professions on earth where someone can nickname a co-worker “Killer,” and it becomes a term of endearment. But in the case of Willson Contreras, his teammates dubbed him “Killer” because the intensity that he brought to every game played a […]