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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, January 31, 2023Cubs’ World Series champ Dexter Fowler retires
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Posted: January 31, 2023 at 10:49 AM | 15 comment(s)
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1. Starring Bradley Scotchman as RMc Posted: January 31, 2023 at 01:35 PM (#6115279)Fun fact: before 2016, the last person to fit the description "Cubs’ World Series champ" was Ed Reulbach, who died in 1961 -- on the same day as Ty Cobb.
1971 93 323
1976 140 341 (Monday and the best PA of Joe Wallis's career)
1981 56 278
1986 93 319
1991 72 303
1996 107 356 (McRae)
2001 96 330
2006 88 329
2011 119 367 (half Castro, half Fukudome)
2016 115 381
2021 107 343
OK, that's not nearly so bad as I expected (stupid facts!) Looks like the Cubs started taking it seriously sometime in the mid-90s. I'd forgotten about Fukudome ever being leadoff -- good role for him -- and I didn't remember McRae getting on that often but he was quite good with the Cubs. Monda I figured would top Fowler but I didn't trust my memory as to how often he hit leadoff (they were some pretty sorry lineups by the time he got there).
Still, in that sample, nobody touches Dexter's 381 OBP.
Edit: ugh, I can't clean this thought up properly. Oh well.
What about the 2004 cubs?
That enhanced his rep among Cubs fans. He took their money and played like crap for them. Good luck with the next step, Dexter. Hope you find your way back to Chicago and a coach, a vice president of hand shakes and back-slapping or whatever. You'll always have a place in my heart.
Yeh-J, I guess.
They got a 269/329/464, 137 sOPS+ out of the leadoff slot. About 40% Todd Walker (370 OBP), 40% Patterson (317) and a chunk of Grudz (314). And 67 PA from good ol' Jose Macias (284).
He was a steal of a deal or in the least reasonably priced… for everyone aside from the Cardinals who paid over $80 Million for less than 2 WAR.
The cardinal part of his career was a disaster with Mozeliak inexplicably calling him out for being lazy.
“... I’ve also had a lot of people come up to me and question his effort and his energy level. You know, those are things that I can’t defend.”
”What I can defend is trying to create opportunities for him, but not if it’s at the expense of someone who’s out there hustling and playing hard.”
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