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CHICAGO CUBSSunday, november 6, 2016 | nwi.com | SeCTIon C

These shoes were on the ground of St. Louis, of all places, on Oct. 22, sitting

in a room filled with members of the Region’s softball commu-nity. All eyes were glued to the big-screen television on the wall in the room. Glorious images

of Wrigley Field were coming out of the wires as the Cubs were beat-ing the Dodgers 5-0 to clinch the NLCS.

These eyes had tears in them.

As the crowd roared in approval

of their beloved team advancing to their first World Series since 1945, my head went down and kissed the Cubs emblem on the chest of my blue shirt, the tears continued as I thought of my brothers David and Bill. Both were huge Cubs fans who left this world too soon and didn’t get to see this great team come from behind to win their first world championship since 1908.

How many of you thought of someone who had passed as the team was dancing around the

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The Cubs celebrate after winning Game 7 of the World Series against the Cleveland Indians on Thursday. The Cubs won 8-7 in 10 innings.

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Cubs Javier Baez, left, and Kris Bryant stand with the World Series trophy at a rally Friday in Chicago.

infield on Wednesday night in Cleveland?

I wore the same shirt that night and kissed it again, be-cause it was my brother David’s shirt.

He didn’t get to see the changes that Tom Ricketts brought to the North Side come to fruition. He got to see the hir-ing of Theo Epstein, the king of this incredible rebuilding proj-ect, but he went Home before all the pieces finally fell into place.

He didn’t get to see this 103-win season, when the Cubs proved without doubt they were the best team in baseball. He didn’t get to see the growth and dominance of young players like Kris Bryant, Kyle Hendricks, Willson Contreras, Javier Baez, Addison Russell or Kyle Schwar-ber.

Also, he didn’t get to see the crafty veterans who came to give guidance and a little fire and great leadership to a group of newbies. Like David Ross, who drank from the Fountain of Youth, got hit in the head by a wild pitch and fell on his

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Legendary Cubs broadcaster Jack Brickhouse had said it years ago while in the WGN

booth. “Any team can have a bad cen-

tury.”Little did the late Hall of Famer

know it would take his beloved team 108 years to finally win a

World Series and become the biggest Chicago sports story of all time.

Hey. Hey.Sorry, Cleveland

Indians fans. The Cubs were the best team from Day 1, favored to win it all, remained

pressure-free and prevailed with a rich blend of youth and veteran leadership.

No team in Major League Base-ball deserved it more.

TV ratings proved it, blowing away NFL viewership on nights that conflicted with the Series.

WFLD-TV said Wednesday’s Game 7 drew a record 51.5 rating in the Chicago market and a 72 share — meaning 72 percent of

the televisions in use were tuned to the game.

This really doesn’t surprise me, given the Cubs national fan base, thanks to years of coverage on WGN.

During a trip many years ago to the West Coast, we had stopped for lunch at a restaurant and a Cubs game — not the Dodgers — was on TV.

Few customers seemed to care.Today, you can take all those

tired stories of Cubs Curses at 102-year-old Wrigley Field, goats and Steve Bartman and wipe them from your memory like a whiteboard.

This is a new chumps-to-champs era in Wrigleyville, soon to be transformed into Ricketts-ville as the team owner buys up everything in sight and keeps improving the product.

In 47 years of sports writ-ing, I’ve covered the White Sox championship in 2005, the Bulls’ six NBA titles and the Bears’ two Super Bowls.

The Cubs’ history-making journey was the most inspiring, most dramatic, most fulfilling

and enjoyable to follow.This year’s Series meant every-

thing to Chicago, which trailed Cleveland 3-1, never gave up hope, then lived and died with ev-ery pitch in Games 6 and 7.

“We’re World champs! Let’s do it again next year!” Kyle Schwar-ber shouted to a sea of humanity during Friday’s four-hour parade and celebration at Grant Park.

“This is a team of MVPs in a city of MVPs,” added series MVP Ben Zobrist.

The city called it “Celebration Of The Century” and estimated the crowd at 5 million, worthy of a Papal visit.

How about those die-hard fans? Wow.

Never before in any sports venue have I’ve seen men and women cover their faces in ab-solute dread during postseason games, bite their lip, cry during bleak moments or look away as the other team rallied late.

This wasn’t a game, it was life and death to many.

Leo Durocher couldn’t have been serious when he claimed “good guys finish last” because

they don’t. This is a very likable and unselfish Cubs team, a fan-friendly front office and a devoted fandom that would’ve returned next spring even if their Cubbies had finished 59-103.

I only wish Brickhouse, Harry Caray, “Mr. Cub” Ernie Banks and Ron Santo were alive to savor the moment, as well as our de-parted family members who had been so loyal to the franchise and longed for a championship.

Will the Cubs repeat in 2017, you ask. Why not?

Dexter Fowler, Jason Hammel, Aroldis Chapman, Chris Cogh-land, Trevor Cahill and Joe Smith are free agents, and all but Chap-man is likely to return.

Schwarber, Zobrist, Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant, Jon Lester, Jake Arrieta, John Lackey, Kyle Hen-dricks, Mike Montgomery, Hector Rondon, Carl Edwards, Albert Almora Jr., Addison Russell, Javy Baez, Jose Soler, Willson Contre-ras and Jason Heyward — with his eight-year, $184 million dollar contract — should make Chicago a contender for years to come.

Heyward batted a harmless

.104 in the Series with no home runs and one RBI, took plenty of grief in the media, but teammates had his back the entire way.

This is a confident, but not a cocky group, that loves the game, loves playing with each other.

I remember asking Crown Point grad and MLB Network an-alyst Dan Plesac in mid-July who he picked to win it all.

“The Cubs. I like the lineup. They’re athletic. A good defen-sive team,” Plesac said. “A little too much swing and miss for me right now but they can be an ex-plosive team.”

If you follow pro sports, you’ve seen how sustained success can tear apart a franchise. Players be-come jealous, complain of being underpaid and unappreciated.

I don’t see that with your world champion Cubs.

Too much character and com-mitment.

They can live with who they are and still be happy.

This column solely represents the writer’s opinion. reach him at [email protected].

Parade of Cubs stars will march on

AL HAMNIK

A few birthdays ago, right about the time the Cubs were starting to turn the corner, our son, CJ, bought me

a W flag. It was a big deal, coming from a Reds

fan (like his mom) with a fairly strong dis-dain for my baseball team, but he knows

what they mean to me.I’ve flown it faithfully,

securing it in the back driv-er’s side window after wins and taking it down after losses. It smoothly transi-tioned from my old Saturn to my Cubs fan/daughter Carolyn’s old Cobalt that became dad’s old Cobalt.

It’s made its share of lengthy road trips through wind, rain, sleet and even snow, becoming quite weather beaten, tattered and torn, much like the history of the Cubs, CJ has joked.

When the Cubs lose, I always place the flag inside the back window. I was in Terre Haute with a rental car for the state cross country meet on Saturday, but I

took the flag with me. Hey, I wasn’t going to leave it sitting in the Cobalt at the En-terprise lot in LaPorte until Monday.

Unfortunately, the Cubs’ offensive struggles continued and I wasn’t sure I was going to raise the W again this fall. As a Cubs fan (not to mention Purdue and the Bengals), I’m programmed to expect misfortune to help soften the inevitable punch. It goes with the territory. Despite the 103-win regular season and first trip to the World Series in 71 years, I had al-ready braced myself for more disappoint-ment.

Then came Game 5. Kris Bryant’s home run provided enough of a spark to eke out a win. The flag went back up.

The hitting revival carried to Cleveland for Game 6. Yeah, Aroldis Chapman was overused, but the series was even. One win for 108 years. The flag stayed up.

It poured Wednesday. I took it as a good sign. I figured Biblical flooding and a Cubs World Series victory went hand in hand. It looked for a while like they might win without drama, but I knew better.

Uncharacteristic mistakes, too much pitcher fiddling, a lack of trust in relievers not wearing No. 54. Never mind it was light-hitting Rajai Davis tying the game with a two-run home run. I’ve seen this movie before and it doesn’t end well.

I braced for an Indians’ walk-off in the ninth inning, a classic ending to a clas-sic game. It didn’t come. An exhausted Chapman somehow got through the frame.

Then of course, a rain delay. Why not? Maybe it was the baseball deities’ way of prolonging the anxiety or giving the Cubs a chance to press a mental reset button.

Two runs in the top of the 10th and hope was renewed. Three outs to go. Who gets the ball? Carl Edwards Jr. and Mike Montgomery, just like we figured all along. It couldn’t be easy. It never has been. A two-out run made it 8-7, but a Michael Martinez grounder to third — with one more smidgen of drama, a slight Bryant slip as he set to throw — and it had happened. It had really happened.

I was home for the National League

clincher and sobbed. I found out the next day CJ had posted it on Facebook. That’s OK, I wear my fandom openly and proudly. I was at work Wednesday, so the emotions were more controlled. I sat, prayerful hands pressed to my face, qui-etly dabbing tears.

A little later, as we left the office, I touched the wet W flag and smiled. We’d been home for a while, watching inter-views and highlights when I decided it needed to hang somewhere other than off the side of the car. Our youngest son, Cameron, also a big Cubs fan, brought me a couple thumb tacks and I forced them into the wood under the porch light to se-cure the shards of cloth the best I could.

It may not look pretty, but to me, after experiencing more than four decades of futility, mixed with a few years of cruel near misses, it’s an absolute thing of beauty.


The W flies proudly

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of Youth, got hit in the head by a wild pitch and fell on his backside as the Indians scored two nervous runs, then blast a home run the following inning, another exam-ple of this team’s never-say-die DNA.

He didn’t get to see Jon Lester’s will to win, which was unbreak-able. Or John Lackey’s graying beard and spunky mouth popping

off things that make the media smile.

Who did you think of watching the drama the last few weeks?

My brothers would’ve loved watching Anthony Rizzo played from April through Novem-ber. The two of them would’ve jumped for joy watching Rizzo put his hands on his helmet and yelling, “Oh, my God” at third base after Ben Zobrist’s 10th inning double in Game 7 that helped the Cubs return from the baseball abyss.

Just like me.They would’ve loved watching

the nonsense of the Billy Goat, the black cat and Steve Bartman get tossed into history’s garbage can by a bunch of guys who re-fused to believe such bull hockey. The Cubs didn’t win for 108 years because they weren’t good enough. The close calls here and there were hampered by good folks fearing myths of barnyard animals and corresponding fail-ure.

I remember my brother Bill

lying on his death bed as I walked into his room a decade ago. In pain he said, “The Cubs won to-day, they looked pretty good.” We talked about our beloved team for awhile. I remember many times walking into my parents living room in the summer and my brother David cheering wildly during a rally or a well-pitched game by Kerry Wood.

We all went to our first game in 1969, watching legends Ernie Banks, Billy Williams and Ron Santo teaching us faith and giving

us hope as kids. To see all those memories

crystallize on a wet, rainy field in Ohio in the simplicity of a Bryant toss to Rizzo, was magical. And spiritual.

So which lost loved one have you thought about this week?

Here’s hoping heaven has a glass floor so all who wanted to could see what the Cubbies did.


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SCHERERVILLE — Bob Poli-mac was inside Wrigley Field in September of 1954, sitting in a chair he’d spent 65 cents for.

The student at Quigley High School, near Midway, had gotten out early that day after the bishop performed mass and gave the kids the afternoon off.

So Polimac went straight to the ball park. That’s who he was. That’s what he did.

Cubs clubhouse manager Yosh Kawano saw Polimac and went up to the lad, then spoke.

“You want to be our batboy to-day?”

In an instant, Polimac was in the clubhouse putting on a uni-form and spikes. His heart raced as the thrill unfolded.

Cubs coach Dutch Leonard gave the kid two baseballs and he ex-claimed, “That was like gold.”

Polimac, now living in Schererville, asked Kawano if he could come back. He said yes, so Polimac came back to Wrigley the next day.

From 1954 through 1957, Poli-mac was a clubhouse assistant and part-time batboy for the Cubs. This experience made a deep im-print on his life, which culminated when the Cubs beat the Indians 8-7 in 10 innings Wednesday to win the World Series, their first since 1908.

“I’ve always joked that me and Ernie Banks came up together,” Polimac said.

Banks, a rookie in 1954, went on to hit 512 home runs for the Cubs and is in baseball’s Hall of Fame. His nickname, “Mr. Cub,” is seared into the hearts of all Cubs funs.

Polimac is no different.“Of all the players I ever met in

those years, Ernie was the warm-est, most sincere, person I ever met,” Polimac said. “He was a true gentleman. And boy could he hit a baseball hard. I used to shag base-balls before games and Ernie hit

the ball harder than anyone.“I had like three-fifths of a sec-

ond to get out of the way.”Polimac’s parents divorced

when he was 13, and he said he was pretty much on his own after that. He went to Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland after grad-uation to study philosophy.

The Cubs were coming to Phil-adelphia for a series and Kawano called him and asked if he wanted to work the series. He showed up and one player sat by him in the dugout and talked with him for 20 minutes, Banks.

“He asked me how school was going, what I was studying,” Po-limac said. “He really cared about this ‘nobody.’ He was an incredible man.”

Kawano called Polimac in the summer of 1962, again, and asked him if he wanted to work the All-Star game at Wrigley Field. Being on the same field as the greatest stars of that era was another huge thrill for Polimac.

“The Indians’ Rocky Colavito was up and he fouled a ball right back at me. It was heading straight for my nose,” Polimac said. “I don’t know why, but I stuck my hand up and caught it. And I don’t remember if it hurt.”

Kawano called Polimac again in 1967 to work a doubleheader in Atlanta. Then broadcaster Lou Boudreau remembered the former full-time batboy from the 1950s and spoke with him, then later told the audience on WGN-AM

(720) about Polimac.He spoke with the young Don

Kessinger at the batting cage be-fore the game and the nervous shortstop told Polimac, “I’ve got to make it this time. Time is run-ning out.”

Polimac was working at Wrigley Field on May 12, 1955, when Sam Jones walked to the mound in the ninth with a 4-0 lead, three outs from a no-hitter. Jones walked the first three batters before the man-ager walked to the hill.

“No one was for sure if they were going to take him out,” Poli-mac said. “They left him in and he struck out the next three batters on 10 pitches. That was the great-est, most exciting game I ever saw.

“Until Wednesday night.”

Polimac was fatigued at home, like many, watching the Cubs and Indians battle for 10 innings in Game 7 of the World Series. But he couldn’t go to sleep. He had been waiting his entire life for what eventually happened.

“I was so happy when they won,” Polimac said. “There is such an excitement around this team that we didn’t have when I was there. I think they make so much money now it allows them to have more fun. When I was there the players worked on one-year contracts and nothing was guaranteed.

“It was so much fun watching this team win it all. Since I worked at Wrigley for a while, it made it that much more special.”

Batboy recalls greatness of olden daysS’ville’s Polimac had special times at Wrigley

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CUBS’ PATH TO A CHAMPIONSHIP

Game 1Indians 6, Cubs 0: on the night the Cleveland Cavaliers raised their nba championship banner, the Indians shut out the Cubs behind nine strikeouts from Corey Kluber and a pair of home runs by roberto Perez.

Game 2Cubs 5, Indians 1: Jake arrieta takes a no-hitter into the sixth inning and Kyle Schwarber drives in two runs to help the Cubs win their first game in the World Series since beat-ing detroit to force a Game 7 in 1945.

Game 3Indians 1, Cubs 0: Indians crash a party 71 years in the making, winning the first World Series game at Wrigley Field since 1945. Cleveland earns its fifth postseason shutout and Coco Crisp drives in the lone run.

Game 4Indians 7, Cubs 2: Corey Kluber pitches six innings on short rest for his second win of the series and Jason Kipnis hits a 3-run home run in his hometown to put the Cubs, the team that was his favorite growing up, on the brink of elimination.

Game 5Cubs 3, Indians 2: Facing elimination, Joe maddon sum-mons aroldis Chapman from the bullpen in the seventh in-ning for the closer’s first eight-out save of his career, and the Cubs sent the series back to Cleveland.

Game 6Cubs 9, Indians 3: Kris bryant homers in a 3-run first inning, addison russell hits a grand slam and ties a World Series record with six rbIs and the Cubs roll to force a decisive Game 7 at Progressive Field.

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CUBS’ PATH TO A CHAMPIONSHIP

Game 7: Fowler homers in the firstCubs leadoff hitter, dexter Fowler, hits a home run against the Cleveland Indians during the first inning of Game 7. The Cubs gain the lead and never trailed in the game.

Game 7: david ross home runIn the final game of his career, Cubs catcher david ross hits a home run during the sixth inning to increase the Cubs’ lead to 6-3. Game 7 was the final game of ross’ career.

Game 7: rajai davis home runCleveland outfielder rajai davis celebrates after his two-run home run during the eighth inning which tied up the game.

Game 7: rain delayThe grounds crew brings the tarp on the field after the ninth inning with the score tied at 6-6. The delay was only 17 minutes long, but Jason Heyward rallied the Cubs players with a locker room speech that provided the lift the team needed.

Game 7: Zobrist hits rbI doubleben Zobrist hits an rbI double during the 10th inning of Game 7 to lift the Cubs to a 8-6 lead.

Game 7: Last outKris bryant, left, and addison russell celebrate after com-pleting the last out of Game 7. a hit from Cleveland’s michael martinez went straight to bryant, who completed the final out of the game with a throw to rizzo at first.

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MIKE BIANCHIOrlando Sentinel

Identity theft is one of America’s fastest-growing crimes, but who knew the entire country would have their Facebook and Twit-ter accounts hacked by the Cubs?

It will go down as the most benevolent security breach in American history.

Wasn’t it wonderful?Wasn’t it uplifting?Wasn’t it amazing to wake

up on Thursday morn-ing and have our Twitter feeds and Facebook pages jam-packed with gladness instead of madness; happi-ness instead ugliness; a bevy of positive hopes instead of bunch of polarizing dopes?

Who knew a baseball team could do more in one night to give America a feeling of unity and solidarity than our presidential candidates have given us in six divi-sive, depressing months on the campaign trail? When the Cubs won Game 7 of the World Series by beating the Cleveland Indians 8-7 late Wednesday night, we temporarily forgot about the noxious negativity of election season and became captivated by the historic, euphoric ending of baseball season.

This is the allure of the Cubs, who, more than any other franchise in pro-fessional sports, truly are America’s Team and repre-sent the American Dream. Our country was built on the belief that one day — if we work hard enough and want it bad enough — we will succeed. The Cubs and their millions of fans nationwide, despite 108 years of futility, never, ever lost hope. And as that great

17th century essayist Jo-seph Addison once wrote: “The three grand essentials for happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.”

During all of these years, tears and crying-in-their-beers, the Cubbies have met all three of those criteria. Even those who aren’t true-blue Cubs fans have a soft spot in their hard hearts for the famously foredoomed franchise that on Wednes-day finally went from cursed to first.

There’s a reason Game 7 of the World Series was the most-watched baseball game in 25 years, drawing an average of 40 million view-ers on Fox. There’s a reason a North Carolina man drove to his father’s grave site Wednesday in Indiana to sit alone in the dark to listen to Cubs win the World Series. There’s a reason a woman wrote this message to her dead mother in chalk on the Wrigley Field memorial wall Wednesday night: “Mom, thank you for teaching us to believe in ourselves, love and the Cubs. Enjoy your view from the ultimate sky-box.”

This is the charm of the Cubs — a team we can all identify with and feel good about. Especially in these tumultuous times when all we hear is partisan, polar-izing political rants and ac-cusations and allegations against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Thank you, Cubbies, for once again showing us the power and positivity of sport, and not just in sin-gular communities but in entire countries.

In triumphant times. And

tragic ones.In a different way, the

Cubs gave us a joyful diver-sion and distraction that at least temporarily made Republicans and Demo-crats, blacks and whites, Christians and Muslims, Gators and Seminoles come together to root, root, root for America’s Team.

And who knows, maybe Orlando had just a little something to do with ending the Cubs’ 108-year drought. After all, the DeVos fam-ily, who own the Orlando Magic, also bought a small piece of the Cubs a few years ago. And let’s not forget, the last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908 when their star shortstop was Joe Tinker, who would end up in Orlando managing a minor league team and building a fortune in real estate.

Tinker Field, Orlando’s abandoned minor league ballpark, was demolished last year to make room for renovation at Camping World Stadium.

Is it just coincidence that the Cubs won the World Se-ries on the same day Orlan-do’s Historic Preservation Board approved plans for Tinker Heritage Park — a project to commemorate the iconic baseball field named after Joe Tinker himself?

I think not.You see, the Cubs aren’t

just Chicago’s team; they’re Orlando’s team, too. And Omaha’s. And Peoria’s. And yours and mine and even my ex-wife’s — the non-sports fan who texted me Thursday to commiserate about the Cubbies.

Sigh.If only Hillary Clinton or

Donald Trump could bring America together like this.

Thank you, Cubs, for uniting America in joy

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The Cubs celebrate after winning Game 7 of the World Series against the Cleveland Indians in Cleveland. The Cubs won 8-7 in 10 innings to win the series 4-3.

Game 1Indians 6, Cubs 0

On the night theCleveland Cavaliers raisedtheir NBA championshipbanner, the Indians shutout the Cubs behind nine

strikeouts from CoreyKluber and a pair of home

runs by Roberto Perez.

Game 2Cubs 5, Indians 1Jake Arrieta took ano-hitter into the

sixth inning and KyleSchwarber drove in two

runs to help the Cubswin their first game inthe World Series since

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Indians crashed a party71 years in the making,winning the first WorldSeries game at Wrigley

Field since 1945.Cleveland earned its

fifth postseason shutoutand Coco Crisp drove in

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Corey Kluber pitched sixinnings on short rest for

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Game 5Cubs 3, Indians 2

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Aroldis Chapman fromthe bullpen in the

seventh inning for thecloser’s first eight-outsave of his career, and

the Cubs sent the seriesback to Cleveland.


Kris Bryant homered ina three-run first inning,

Addison Russell hit agrand slam and tied a

World Series record withsix RBIs and the Cubs

rolled to force a decisiveGame 7 at Progressive

Field.


After Aroldis Chapman blew an eighth-inning

lead by allowing a two-run home run, the

Cubs rallied to score two runs in the 10th, highlighted by Ben

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25-man rosterPITCHERS# Name B/T Ht Wt DOB

49 Jake arrieta r/r 6-4 225 3/6/86

54 aroldis Chapman L/L 6-4 215 2/28/88

6 Carl edwards Jr. r/r 6-3 170 9/3/91

52 Justin Grimm r/r 6-3 210 8/16/88

28 Kyle Hendricks r/r 6-3 190 12/7/89

41 John Lackey r/r 6-6 235 10/23/78

34 Jon Lester L/L 6-4 240 1/7/84

38 mike montgomery L/L 6-5 215 7/1/89

56 Hector rondon r/r 6-3 230 2/26/88

46 Pedro Strop r/r 6-1 220 6/13/85

37 Travis Wood r/L 5-11 175 2/6/87

CATCHERS# Name B/T Ht Wt DOB

40 Willson Contreras r/r 6-1 210 5/13/92

47 miguel montero L/r 5-11 210 7/9/83

3 david ross r/r 6-2 230 3/19/77

INFIELD# Name B/T Ht Wt DOB

9 Javier baez r/r 6-0 190 12/1/92

17 Kris bryant r/r 6-5 230 1/4/92

44 anthony rizzo L/L 6-3 240 8/8/89

27 addison russell r/r 6-0 200 1/23/94

18 ben Zobrist S/r 6-3 210 5/26/81

OUTFIELD# Name B/T Ht Wt DOB

5 albert almora Jr. r/r 6-2 190 4/16/94

8 Chris Coghlan L/r 6-0 195 6/18/85

24 dexter Fowler S/r 6-5 195 3/22/86

22 Jason Heyward L/L 6-5 240 8/9/89

12 Kyle Schwarber L/r 6-0 235 3/5/93

68 Jorge Soler r/r 6-4 215 2/25/92

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Pos Name G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS GDP HBP IBB

C miguel montero* 86 284 241 33 52 8 1 8 33 1 0 38 58 0.216 0.327 0.357 0.684 8 3 51B Anthony Rizzo* 155 676 583 94 170 43 4 32 109 3 5 74 108 0.292 0.385 0.544 0.928 13 16 82B Ben Zobrist# 147 631 523 94 142 31 3 18 76 6 4 96 82 0.272 0.386 0.446 0.831 17 4 6ss Addison Russell 151 598 525 67 125 25 3 21 95 5 1 55 135 0.238 0.321 0.417 0.738 11 12 6

3B Kris Bryant 155 699 603 121 176 35 3 39 102 8 5 75 154 0.292 0.385 0.554 0.939 3 18 5LF Jorge soler 86 264 227 37 54 9 0 12 31 0 0 31 66 0.238 0.333 0.436 0.769 5 3 0CF Dexter Fowler# 125 551 456 84 126 25 7 13 48 13 4 79 124 0.276 0.393 0.447 0.84 3 11 0RF Jason heyward* 142 592 530 61 122 27 1 7 49 11 4 54 93 0.23 0.306 0.325 0.631 12 5 0iF Javier Baez 142 450 421 50 115 19 1 14 59 12 3 15 108 0.273 0.314 0.423 0.737 8 11 3UT Willson Contreras 76 283 252 33 71 14 1 12 35 2 2 26 67 0.282 0.357 0.488 0.845 7 4 0C David Ross 67 205 166 24 38 6 0 10 32 0 1 30 54 0.229 0.338 0.446 0.784 3 0 6LF matt szczur 107 200 185 30 48 9 1 5 24 2 4 13 39 0.259 0.312 0.4 0.712 2 1 23B Tommy La stella* 74 169 148 17 40 12 1 2 11 0 1 18 27 0.27 0.357 0.405 0.763 2 2 1LF Chris Coghlan* 48 128 103 21 26 7 2 1 16 1 0 22 26 0.252 0.391 0.388 0.779 2 2 2CF Albert Almora 47 117 112 14 31 9 1 3 14 0 0 5 20 0.277 0.308 0.455 0.763 5 0 0C Tim Federowicz 17 33 31 3 6 2 0 0 3 0 0 1 12 0.194 0.212 0.258 0.47 1 0 02B munenori Kawasaki* 14 26 21 3 7 2 0 0 1 2 0 4 5 0.333 0.462 0.429 0.89 1 1 03B Jeimer Candelario# 5 14 11 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 0.091 0.286 0.091 0.377 0 1 1OF Ryan Kalish* 7 10 7 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0.286 0.444 0.286 0.73 0 1 0LF Kyle schwarber* 2 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0.2 0 0.2 0 0 0P Jon Lester* 33 75 59 3 6 3 0 0 6 0 0 6 18 0.102 0.185 0.153 0.337 2 0 0P Jake Arrieta 31 70 65 7 17 2 1 2 7 0 0 4 28 0.262 0.304 0.415 0.72 1 0 0P Jason hammel 35 69 65 6 16 3 0 0 7 0 0 1 24 0.246 0.258 0.292 0.55 0 0 0P John Lackey 29 69 63 1 6 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 31 0.095 0.123 0.127 0.25 1 0 0P Kyle hendricks 32 68 58 1 8 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 29 0.138 0.167 0.138 0.305 0 1 0P Travis Wood 81 12 11 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 5 0.182 0.25 0.182 0.432 0 0 0P mike montgomery* 17 11 11 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 0.091 0.091 0.091 0.182 0 0 0P Trevor Cahill 51 11 8 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 0.125 0.222 0.125 0.347 0 0 0

P Adam Warren 29 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P Rob Zastryzny 8 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P spencer Patton 16 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P Jake Buchanan 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P Carl edwards 37 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P Joel Peralta 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P Clayton Richard* 26 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P Pedro strop 55 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P hector Rondon 54 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P Justin Grimm 68 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P Neil Ramirez 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P Aroldis Chapman* 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P Brian matusz* 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P Joe Nathan 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P Joe smith 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P Gerardo Concepcion* 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0P Felix Pena 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Team Totals 162 6335 5503 808 1409 293 30 199 767 66 34 656 1339 0.256 0.343 0.429 0.772 107 96 45Rank in NL 9 2 7 4 9 5 11 6 1 11 6 1 4 2 1Non-Pitcher TL 162 5935 5149 787 1352 283 29 197 740 66 34 640 1185 0.263 0.352 0.444 0.796 103 95 45Pitcher TL 162 400 354 21 57 10 1 2 27 0 0 16 154 0.161 0.199 0.212 0.411 4 1 0

* - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? - unknown; OPs_lg for OPs+ does not include pitchers source: Baseball Reference.com

Season batting

Season pitchingName W L W-L% ERA G SV IP H R ER HR BB SO HB WP WHIPJon Lester* 19 5 0.792 2.44 32 0 202.2 154 57 55 21 52 197 6 4 1.016Jake Arrieta 18 8 0.692 3.1 31 0 197.1 138 72 68 16 76 190 6 16 1.084Kyle hendricks 16 8 0.667 2.13 31 0 190 142 53 45 15 44 170 8 5 0.979John Lackey 11 8 0.579 3.35 29 0 188.1 146 74 70 23 53 180 9 4 1.057Jason hammel 15 10 0.6 3.83 30 0 166.2 148 77 71 25 53 144 9 9 1.206hector Rondon 2 3 0.4 3.53 54 18 51 42 20 20 8 8 58 2 3 0.98Trevor Cahill 4 4 0.5 2.74 50 0 65.2 49 22 20 7 35 66 5 3 1.279Travis Wood* 4 0 1 2.95 77 0 61 45 24 20 8 24 47 1 0 1.131Justin Grimm 2 1 0.667 4.1 68 0 52.2 47 24 24 5 23 65 1 7 1.329Pedro strop 2 2 0.5 2.85 54 0 47.1 27 16 15 4 15 60 4 7 0.887mike montgomery* 1 1 0.5 2.82 17 0 38.1 30 15 12 5 20 38 4 5 1.304Carl edwards 0 1 0 3.75 36 2 36 15 15 15 4 14 52 0 5 0.806Adam Warren 3 2 0.6 5.91 29 0 35 31 24 23 7 19 27 0 0 1.429Aroldis Chapman* 1 1 0.5 1.01 28 16 26.2 12 4 3 0 10 46 0 6 0.825

Name W L W-L% ERA G SV IP H R ER HR BB SO HB WP WHIPspencer Patton 1 1 0.5 5.48 16 0 21.1 20 16 13 3 14 22 1 0 1.594Rob Zastryzny* 1 0 1 1.13 8 0 16 12 3 2 0 5 17 1 0 1.063Joe smith 1 1 0.5 2.51 16 0 14.1 11 4 4 4 5 15 1 0 1.116Clayton Richard* 0 1 0 6.43 25 1 14 23 14 10 0 7 7 2 1 2.143Felix Pena 0 0 4 11 1 9 5 4 4 1 3 13 0 1 0.889Neil Ramirez 0 0 4.7 8 0 7.2 5 4 4 1 8 10 0 3 1.696Jake Buchanan 1 0 1 1.5 2 0 6 3 1 1 1 1 4 0 0 0.667Joel Peralta 0 1 0 9 5 0 4 6 5 4 2 1 5 1 0 1.75Brian matusz* 0 0 18 1 0 3 6 6 6 3 2 2 1 1 2.667Gerardo Concepcion* 0 0 3.86 3 0 2.1 2 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 1.286Joe Nathan 1 0 1 0 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 2miguel montero 0 0 6.75 1 0 1.1 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 3Team Totals 103 58 0.64 3.15 162 38 1459.2 1125 556 511 163 495 1441 63 80 1.11

Rank in NL 1 15 1 10 2 1 1 1 6 7 3

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