Name Yer Cub, Episode 8

[Brock Beauchamp]

[CubinNY]

This is a tough one. Batting gloves so not Allou, lol. 

[Brandon Glick]

I'm the guy who picked this player for this image and even I don't remember who this is lol

[Thurman Merman]

Meaty lefty. I'm going lahair

[NorthsideAvenger]

Carlos Pena?

[We Got The Whole 9]

If I have sluethed right they wore these 1937 jerseys on the road in 2014 so that is some loser placeholder Theo strung along. 

[We Got The Whole 9]

1 minute ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

Carlos Pena?

I think you're right. That's a BLAKATA

[Jason Ross]

5 minutes ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

Carlos Pena?

I've been going through my head on lefties who finished like that around that time period. That's during the 100 years of Wrigley throwback, I believe. Pena played that year and he finished like that.

Nice call. Pretty sure you nailed it.

[Thurman Merman]

15 minutes ago, Thurman Merman said:

Meaty lefty. I'm going lahair

I also initially thought valbuena or even rizzo came to mind.

[We Got The Whole 9]

10 minutes ago, 1908_Cubs said:

I've been going through my head on lefties who finished like that around that time period. That's during the 100 years of Wrigley throwback, I believe. Pena played that year and he finished like that.

Nice call. Pretty sure you nailed it.

It looks like that was 2014 and Pena played with us in 2011, but that looks like his follow through and bat drop. Maybe it's Coghlan?

Edited March 21, 2025 by We Got The Whole 9

[SouthSideRyan]

Nate Schierholtz

[Illiterate Scholar]

Definitely Pena

[We Got The Whole 9]

Is that the Royals they are facing? They only played them in ST in 2014. Definitely didn't wear throwbacks for that.

[NorthsideAvenger]

35 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Is that the Royals they are facing? They only played them in ST in 2014. Definitely didn't wear throwbacks for that.

Dodgers, I believe.

[mul21]

1 minute ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

Dodgers, I believe.

Long sleeves in August in LA doesn't make any sense though.  This almost has to be an away spring training game looking at the 2014 schedule.

[mul21]

Luis Valbuena.  Final answer.

[Thurman Merman]

1 minute ago, mul21 said:

Luis Valbuena.  Final answer.

I think that's where I'm at

[We Got The Whole 9]

5 minutes ago, mul21 said:

Long sleeves in August in LA doesn't make any sense though.  This almost has to be an away spring training game looking at the 2014 schedule.

Dodger Stadium definitely has those yellow seats though. Kauffman doesn't.

[mul21]

5 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Dodger Stadium definitely has those yellow seats though. Kauffman doesn't.

Yeah, and after I perused the roster it occurred to me that Luis frequently went with long sleeves regardless of the weather.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Dug a little more. Dodgers and Cubs wore those jerseys in 2011. Definitey Pena. Valbuena came in 2012.

Edited March 21, 2025 by We Got The Whole 9

[Jason Ross]

2 hours ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

It looks like that was 2014 and Pena played with us in 2011, but that looks like his follow through and bat drop. Maybe it's Coghlan?

Ooooh...yeah good catch. I thought he was there in 2014 but my time was off on Pena. I knew it was in that early period of transition to Epstein but I guess I was a bit off.

Nice find on the Dodgers/Cubs thing though

[NorthsideAvenger]

1 hour ago, mul21 said:

Luis Valbuena.  Final answer.

I thought about Valbuena but I believe he had a two handed swing through the ball.

[profisme]

I think Pena is the right answer but my first inclination was Jeromy Burnitz. 

[Hot Sauce]

Swaggy swing. Most definitely Carlos Peña. Can we all appreciate how much better the throwbacks were as an alternate uniform over the Wrigleyville atrocities?

[Brock Beauchamp]

Indeed. It is Pena.