You really shouldn't be allowed to be a pitcher named Balfour. You might as well be a goalie named Steve Puckgoesin or a placekicker named John Shankedit.
I would pay a million interweb dollars to have someone document the results, good and bad, when we are "aggressive" and have them show Lou how often this hurts us.
Cue predictable moaning from everyone that a borderline call went against the Cubs, because they can see how a ball passed through a three-dimensional strikezone from a distant camera vantage point, flattened to 2-dimensions and skewed to one side.
Why? What's not fun about it? it's fun to update a guy's every at-bat in June when he's not going to actually do what they're updating his every at-bat about? BP had an article projecting it at about a 12% chance. It's not impossible.
Are you serious? He would have been out by a mile It would have been close. What are the odds of a bad throw or a slow tag? Better than the roughly 25% chance that Edmonds gets a hit?