Wow, this guy just cannot get a win no matter what. Nine innings, three hits, one unearned run, a double and scores the only run an anemic Cubs offense can produce. Net result: no decision.
There was an interesting piece from Gordon Wittenmyer this morning in the Sun-Times. More interesting for what is not said than what is said. The general tenor is the Cubs players think Samardzija is great, as do the fans, but it is a foregone conclusion that because Samardzija will not sign a team-friendly extension, he will be traded in July for more prospects that it will take the team five or six years to develop. Just as it has taken the Cubs six years to develop Samardzija.
I guess what is left unsaid is implied in the remarks of Jake Arietta that are quoted in the piece. It must be incredibly demoralizing for the players to see talented teammates traded away each and every year while you are marking time for the same fate.
In short, there are a lot of downsides to the current rebuilding strategy and, to my mind, rather little to recommend it in terms of success.
Oh, the Cubs lost another heartbreaker last night in the newest version of winter baseball. These 30 degree windchill games in May are not really baseball.
Last night the Cubs and Sox put on a kind of clinic in how not to play winning baseball for the first half of the game, then settled into a sounder, more decorous version where you wonder if anybody will ever score a run and you know when it happens it is going to be pretty ugly.
The Cubs blinked first in the twelfth, allowing two runs to a two-out rally by the Sox, fueled mostly by Cubs reliever Justin Grimm's inability to throw strikes.
Two thoughts on this, viz., what is it about he lefty-righty matchup that so fascinates Rookie Renteria? I mean, Wright can pitch to right-handers too and in a twelve inning game, shouldn't you conserve your bullpen? And how come nobody is ever warming up during these control meltdowns?
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