In this feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature Barry Foote. In my musings about the Cubs–both internal and out loud–I often view my fandom […]
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CATCHER OF THE WEEK: Tim Blackwell
When you think of what you look for in a backup catcher, you think, “Good hands, maybe his bat gets hot, good with pitchers.” Add a crumb catcher of Swansonian majesty and you’ve got Tim Blackwell. Blackwell broke in with the Red Sox where he had a reputation for being a good defensive catcher, but […]