Monday, December 19, 2022

Newsletter Excerpt, December 19, 2022 -- "Dansby Swanson and the Cubs"

 

This is a preview of the Joe Sheehan Baseball Newsletter, an e-mail newsletter about all things baseball, featuring analysis and opinion about the game on and off the field from the perspective of the informed outsider. Joe Sheehan is a founding member of Baseball Prospectus and has been a contributor to Sports Illustrated and Baseball America. He has been writing about baseball for 25 years.

Your subscription gets you the newsletter and various related features two to five days a week, more than 150 mailings (more than 200,000 words) a year full of smart, fun baseball writing that you can't find in the mainstream. Subscribers can also access the new Slack workspace, to talk baseball with me and hundreds of other Newsletter subscribers.

You can subscribe to the newsletter for one year for $79.95 using your PayPal account or major credit card.

--
 
"So it’s not the years, and it’s not the money, it’s making a “big move” that doesn’t do what you need it to do, which is significantly improve the offense. The Cubs’ 2023 lineup is a feat of wishcasting, from Seiya Suzuki to Matt Mervis to Cody Bellinger, hoping a whole lot of players perform at or near the top of their ranges."