Photo courtesy of David Banks-USA TODAY Sports My wife and I were driving to Chicago last Friday to help our younger daughter move from one Lakeview apartment to another. It really wasn’t the ideal time to move, with the Cubs at home, but a confluence of events made these days the only ones that would […]
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The Ramifications of a 13-Man Pitching Staff
Photo courtesy of Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs called up Junior Lake and sent Brian Schlitter down on Monday, and until then they had been carrying a 13-man pitching staff, and there’s many reasons for that. They had a stretch of consecutive games from April 17-29 without an off day, even though they received […]
Maddon Has the Cubs Running Wild
Joe Maddon was well-known as one of the funkiest managers in baseball during his time with the Tampa Bay Rays. Maddon often implemented the infield shift before it was popular and even batted his pitcher eighth in interleague games. The Rays are well-known as one of the more sabermetricly inclined organizations, and Maddon was a […]
The Impact of Hitting the Pitcher Eighth
Joe Maddon stated he was going to bat his pitcher in the eighth slot in the batting order, and so far this year, he’s stuck to his guns. Regardless of the hitting abilities of the pitcher involved or the player slotted in the ninth spot, the Cubs pitcher has batted eighth in every game so […]