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Game 93 Recap: Mets 2 Cubs 1

Tuesday night’s game was one of the biggest wins of the Cubs’ season to date, and the scoreboard didn’t even show it. The Arrieta Section: Unsure where this should fall in the narrative of the game itself, I decided it was worth simply breaking it out into its own space. Jake Arrieta, the ace who carried […]

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Montero or Hammel Could Be Casualties of Cubs’ Long-Term Plan

Quietly, Miguel Montero and Jason Hammel have been huge parts of the Cubs’ success over the last two seasons. Montero was worth 3.9 WARP in relatively modest playing time last year, and has been worth 1.3 WARP already this year—in addition to which, he’s been Jake Arrieta’s partner in crime, Willson Contreras’s mentor, and one […]