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 […]
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Let’s Take a Second To Appreciate Javy Baez’s Improvements
When Javier Baez first came to the big leagues in 2014, it was a well-established fact that his cumbersome strikeout rates would be coming with him. And they did. Baez posted a strikeout rate of 41.5 percent in 2014, accompanied by a stat line as dull as Joe West’s name: .169/.227/.324 in 229 plate appearances. But […]