Last weekend was an exciting one for the Cubs, sweeping the Giants and firmly establishing their claim as the team to beat for the last NL playoff spot. They certainly made it interesting, with James Russell and Jason Motte combining to turn a mop-up game on Saturday into something interesting, and Hector Rondon giving every […]
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What’s Up With: Tommy Hunter
On Sunday, July 24, 2016, the second-best left-handed outfielder ever born on November 21st in Denora, Pennsylvania, will stride across a dais in Cooperstown, New York, and into baseball immortality. I can say that with such certainty, before a single writer has called his name, because the 630 home runs he hit over a dazzling 22-year […]
Cubs Acquire Tommy Hunter from Orioles
The fascinating thing about the rumors this week that Aroldis Chapman or Craig Kimbrel might be traded was the fact that that just never happens. Relievers change hands in big volume every year at the deadline, but they tend to be interchangeable arms, many of them with eerily similar profiles: the left specialist, the ancient […]