Oct 4th 2009
2009 Cribbie Awards
Last day of the season (for teams that aren’t good enough to be in the playoffs). Time to hand out some awards for accomplishment or lack thereof to deserving Cubs players. Ryne Sandberg MVP Award: Derrek Lee. Easy call here. He leads the team in batting average, homers, RBI, runs and all those dopey made-up Bill James stats. Sadly, his career year was wasted on a club that was out of the hunt by the beginning of September. Runner-Up: Ryan Theriot. The Riot ended up only hitting .286 with a .345 on-base, but he was arguably the Cubs’ steadiest bat [...]
September got off to a winning start for the Cubs, who at the time still had hope of climbing back into the Wild Card race. Unfortunately, that playoff run never materialized in a meaningful way, and by the end of the month, the Cubs had nothing to play for except pride. Pride, evidently, was not sufficient motivation for the Cubs to put up a decent effort on the last day of the month against the lowly Pirates, a team they’d spent most of the year beating the tar out of. The result: a doubleheader sweep by Pittsburgh. The Cubs put [...]
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