Position: LF 2017 Statistics: AVG OBP SLG HR TAv wRC+ FRAA WARP .211 .315 .467 30 .266 102 2.8 1.7 Year in Review: Well. Where do we begin? There may not have been a more talked-about player on the Chicago Cubs roster in 2017 than Kyle Schwarber, and much of it really wasn’t for the […]
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2017 Player Profile: Willson Contreras
Position: Catcher 2017 Statistics: AVG OBP SLG HR TAv wRC+ FRAA WARP .276 .356 .499 21 .302 121 -3.0 3.1 Year in Review: Few Cubs were able to stand out in 2017 in the way that Willson Contreras did. Not only did Contreras take his first full season at the big league level and run […]
2017 Player Profile: Ian Happ
Position: 2B/OF 2017 Statistics: AVG OBP SLG HR TAv wRC+ FRAA WARP .253 .328 .514 24 .284 113 -4.0 2.1 Year in Review: After lighting up the spring, it took barely more than a month into the 2017 regular season before the Cubs’ latest positional prodigy made his appearance at Wrigley Field. Ian Happ (the […]
Player Profile: Justin Wilson
Position: Left-handed Relief Pitcher 2017 Stats: 58.0 IP, 3.41 ERA/3.37 FIP/4.70 DRA, 90 cFIP, 12.4 K/9, 0.3 WARP Year in Review: The above stat line actually tells you almost nothing about Justin Wilson’s 2017 season, which started with promise in Detroit and ended with struggles in Chicago. Here’s how the performances looked when broken out by team: Detroit: 40.3 IP, […]
2017 Player Profile: Javier Baez
Position: 2B/SS 2017 Statistics: AVG OBP SLG HR TAv wRC+ FRAA WARP .273 .317 .480 23 .274 98 -7.4 2.3 Year in Review: As hard as it may be to believe, 2017 was really only Javier Baez’s second full season at the Major League level, as injuries and inconsistency had hampered him in the couple […]
Kris Bryant and Ryne Sandberg’s 1985 Season
When Kris Bryant won the 2016 NL MVP, he was quickly welcomed to the club by Ryne Sandberg in an Instagram photo that could only be captioned “Two Cub legends pose for a Wes Anderson film.” And after Bryant completed his follow-up season, it turned out that the two of them had a lot more […]
2017 Player Profile: Albert Almora, Jr.
Position: CF 2017 Stats: AVG OBP SLG HR TAv wRC+ FRAA WARP .298 .338 .445 8 .267 103 -1.1 1.5 Year in Review: Going into the 2017 season, Albert Almora, Jr. represented one of the true wild cards of the Cubs roster, as far as position players are concerned. In a somewhat crowded outfield, Almora […]
2017 Player Profile: Mike Montgomery
Position: SP/RP 2017 Stats: 7-8, 4.08 ERA/3.38 FIP/4.29 DRA, 101 cFIP, 6.9 K/9, 1.6 WARP Year in Review: Mike Montgomery. Starter? Reliever? Nobody knows. All he did in 2017 was further confuse us on this question, posting some perplexing splits between his time in the rotation and his time in the bullpen. Starter- 69.1 IP, 4.15 ERA, 3.94 […]
2017 Player Profile: Héctor Rondón
Position: Relief pitcher 2017 Stats: IP K% BB% ERA DRA BABIP GB% HR/FB% 57.1 29.1 8.4 4.24 3.57 .292 48.3 19.6 Year in Review: For the second year in row, Rondón lost the favor of Joe Maddon and found himself as one of the last relievers sitting in the bullpen most nights. The merit of this […]
2017 Player Profile: Ben Zobrist
Position: 2B/RF/LF 2017 Stats: Avg. OBP SLG HR TAv wRC+ FRAA WARP .232 .318 .375 12 .249 82 -2.8 0.2 Year in Review: In March, Ken Schultz wrote a piece about Ben Zobrist’s aging curve. In it, he looked at historical comparisons for elite-level second basemen and at what point in their careers their production fell off the […]