I noticed that too, but they're never going to be able to make every West Coast trip make perfect sense. True. It would be cool if it could always be one long trip to play LA, San Fran and San Diego and then another for Arizona and Colorado, but everyone would like that I suppose.
I would. There are very few chinks in the armor with this team. I fear someone at some point this season is going to go all Cards/Tigers World Series on Lester. I think a team is going to do this every time they face Lester and they never do. The Cubs have done a good job making things difficult by having Baez play third and Ross help try to control the running game, but the Pirates seem like they have enough speed and bunting ability (just talking out of my ass on the bunting part) to pretty much bunt right in front of Lester and watch him stand there.
He won't be, but that's not his fault With his improved discipline, if the power keeps up, it will be a good race between him, Bryant, Rizzo, Heyward, and Arrieta. I like the confidence that the Cubs get Arrieta signed.
I'm not saying Scott Boras doesn't do early team friendly extensions to buy out free agency but horsefeathers. I didn't know he was his agent. horsefeathers.
I realize Arietta's not so sharp is still like All-Star good, but has he been as good since the no-hitter, when all the PED and contract talk took over?
That and I'm quite sure he probably didn't have to throw back the real one. In this instance, he did, which is why it became a topic of discussion. They were watching the replay to determine if it was the actual ball or not. Gotcha. Hopefully, the kid doesn't give into peer pressure all his life. That said, I'd have kept it only because it was from Cutch. He's a good enough player and former MVP that it would have been cool enough to put on the shelf and point out how that was career homer number whatever for him.
The best thing about good players is that usually they turn out to be good. And then when they were bad at the beginning and turn out to be like good, then people forget all about how they were worried that the good player was going to be bad forever. See the board for Lester, Jon at the beginning of last season. Yet, many repeat this vicious cycle.