I just finished reading the article on the Cubs’ “Win Now” policy (Tribune, June 6) and I’m wondering: Win what? Did I miss the World Series parade with the Cubs strolling down Michigan Avenue toward Grant Park?
I believe it’s not so much whom they have drafted but what becomes of them after the Cubs get their hands on them. Corey Patterson being the latest example–they give up on him and someone tweaks a few things that the Cubs’ developers-of-young-talent miss and presto, he’s a ballplayer. I’m now watching Matt Murton regress before my very eyes, swinging at pitchers’ pitches, trying to pull the ball too much . . . I guess he has grown accustomed to Cubs’ ways and has forgotten what he learned in the Boston system.
Every team has players whom they gave up on and who go on to have stellar careers elsewhere, but I can’t think of one in the recent Cubs’ regime whom they have acquired and turned into a player. Maybe that’s why they are forced to buy rather than grow?
