Even when Carolina does something halfway sensible like draft Xavier Legette, they have to do something stupid like trade down 59 picks later in the draft for a guy that was definitely going to be available at 33 to do it.
No kidding. I'm sure there was more to it but it sure felt at the time like it was a 'well, the Cubs are gonna suck for a while and the Sox are on the uptick and I want to call playoff games' thing and...that did not work for him.
Absolutely confirmation bias on this one but it feels like the Cubs' track record of guys getting injured literally just as they are starting to catch fire at the plate is unmatched.
It strikes me as annoying that Houston, for whom so little has gone wrong in so long, has by far the most normal looking versions of these stupid uniforms that I've yet seen
No, those were 2 different years. Soriano walkoff was 09 (shamelessly adding that I was there) and Berkman's mad dash was, I believe, in 08, and late at night at that. Houston's last Wrigley visit was 2013.
FWIW I just checked and the Cubs are 7th in average with RISP, but I can't find any specific splits on successfully plating runners from 3rd with under 2 outs.
The Brewers, naturally, are way ahead of everyone in average with RISP at .344.