Chicago Cubs news and notes — Happ, Martin, Brown
There are days that Ian Happ just appears out of the darkness, doing the routine — until he does the unexpected.
Today’s Reflections Here we are, on May 9th, and the Chicago Cubs have been christened by the media as the most stunning, powerful, dominant team in baseball!!! If they were talking to the Mets’ fanbase, or those from St. Louis, Atlanta, Texas, Tampa, etc.
, those fans would be on TOP OF THE WORLD!! 1!! But.
Let’s be real. We’re Cub fans. WE know what’s going on.
The media can paint all the pretty pictures it wants — WE know that while we have a fun (for now), aggressive (for now) mix of hitters and defenders that (can) dominate games, that can change in a flash. We see the small holes for now, like Dansby Swanson’s hitting, the occasional flub ups in LF that still makes Ian Happ most likely the best off-season free-agent outfielder, the goofy flub ups in RF by Seiya Suzuki who’s bat makes us forget all that (unless it’s in crucial situations), the unknown whether PCA is going to be half of the player we saw in the first half last year, the mistakes that Nico Hoerner …… AAAAAH, I can’t do it — he’s a modern-day god. It’s mostly the pitching staff that’s not only held together by band aids and rubber bands — it’s more like titanium and cement.
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