His speed and defense might lift him out of bad and more towards average, but Tony Campana was rightly beloved
Munenori Kawasaki
Revisionist history. Dunston was a low key bust. Hit like .700 in high school and was a #1 pick. His rookie year he had like 35 errors. He is where the term “hot dogging it” originated in my universe.
Doug Dascenzo
Matt Murton
There’s a lot of names that come to mind who were either bad for too long to remain beloved (Wisdom), or weren’t around long enough to make an impression (Schwindel).
But the ⛵️ man, David Bote, I believe is the perfect answer. He’s immortalized in Cubbie lore and has one of the coolest moments of all time.
Ryan Theriot
There are so many. Sadly this will probably be the hardest square to fill. I remember being so excited for Hee-Seop Choi it was ridiculous. Guy couldn’t do anything wrong. Munenori Kawasaki is probably the easy answer. Javy has to be up there. Kosuke Fukudome has got to be considered.
This is frank the tank
Gold Glove winner Darwin Barney
Recency bias, but Morel. Wanted him to succeed so bad. He just wasn’t good.
Ryan Theriot
I’m going with Tony Campana on this one.
Schwindel is the recent pick here.
From my childhood Doug Dascenzo was the guy, I remember drunk women in the crowd propositioning him from the stands and saying extremely lewd comments about him.
Yall young, but Ivan De Jesus pulled a full “el mago” and just rock bottomed. That said, the people and other teams still wanted him around.
Late 90s and early 2000s I loved Kyle Farnsworth. But he was replacement level over 6 seasons with the Cubs and had 2 seasons over 6.40 ERA. Still, best tackling pitcher we ever had.
Héctor Villanueva, if only for Harry Caray’s always-entertaining attempts to say his name.
Taylor Davis
Patrick Wisdom
Reed Johnson
Javy Baez
Tony Campana
Miguel Montero’s grand slam earns him eternal respect.
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David Ross
Frank Schwindel
I don’t know if everyone loves him, but I love Albert Almora for tagging up and going to 2B.
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Jonathan Herrera
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probably morel
El Mago
His speed and defense might lift him out of bad and more towards average, but Tony Campana was rightly beloved
Munenori Kawasaki
Revisionist history. Dunston was a low key bust. Hit like .700 in high school and was a #1 pick. His rookie year he had like 35 errors. He is where the term “hot dogging it” originated in my universe.
Doug Dascenzo
Matt Murton
There’s a lot of names that come to mind who were either bad for too long to remain beloved (Wisdom), or weren’t around long enough to make an impression (Schwindel).
But the ⛵️ man, David Bote, I believe is the perfect answer. He’s immortalized in Cubbie lore and has one of the coolest moments of all time.
Ryan Theriot
There are so many. Sadly this will probably be the hardest square to fill. I remember being so excited for Hee-Seop Choi it was ridiculous. Guy couldn’t do anything wrong. Munenori Kawasaki is probably the easy answer. Javy has to be up there. Kosuke Fukudome has got to be considered.
This is frank the tank
Gold Glove winner Darwin Barney
Recency bias, but Morel. Wanted him to succeed so bad. He just wasn’t good.
Ryan Theriot
I’m going with Tony Campana on this one.
Schwindel is the recent pick here.
From my childhood Doug Dascenzo was the guy, I remember drunk women in the crowd propositioning him from the stands and saying extremely lewd comments about him.
Yall young, but Ivan De Jesus pulled a full “el mago” and just rock bottomed. That said, the people and other teams still wanted him around.
Late 90s and early 2000s I loved Kyle Farnsworth. But he was replacement level over 6 seasons with the Cubs and had 2 seasons over 6.40 ERA. Still, best tackling pitcher we ever had.
Héctor Villanueva, if only for Harry Caray’s always-entertaining attempts to say his name.
Taylor Davis
Patrick Wisdom
Reed Johnson
Javy Baez
Tony Campana
Miguel Montero’s grand slam earns him eternal respect.