Joc Pederson is betting on himself. The new Chicago Cubs outfielder turned down multiyear offers elsewhere for a one-year deal in Chicago because the organization offered the main thing he coveted. Pederson wanted an opportunity to play every day, and he will get a chance to show he’s more than a platoon option as the Cubs’ starting left fielder. Pederson, entering his eighth big league ...
This summer’s trade deadline was like no ever we’d experienced since there was no minor-league baseball going on. Because of that, teams were not allowed to trade players who were not either on their active roster or training at the Alternate Site. So there were a lot more players to be named later than usual.
The pandemic still has us in its clutches, of course. But maybe it’s better to look at these spring games and the coming season they prophesy not as a continuation of the same dark strangeness, but rather as a new chapter.
W | L | Pct | GB | |
---|---|---|---|---|
30 | 28 | .517 | 3.0 | |
31 | 29 | .517 | 3.0 | |
29 | 31 | .483 | 5.0 | |
19 | 41 | .317 | 15.0 | |
34 | 26 | .567 | 0.0 |