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One has to wonder what fans of the Cubs wouldve said if a little birdie foretold of Marlon Byrd, Starlin  Sean Lissemore Jersey Castro, Carlos Silva, and Tom Gorzelannys seasons within the springtime. Sure, Angel Guzman would be out, however with those four contributing so much, the Cubs would have to be contenders. To steal a bit from Carson Cistulli, if the Cubs fan within the company, the illustrious Bryan Smith, had his druthers, this  Chris Landrum Jersey Cubs season would disappear.
The list of disasters for the Cubs this year is long and stretches from Carlos Zambrano to Aramis Ramirez to Derrek Lee and beyond. We have this nifty little metric on the leaderboards and player pages called Clutch. E sentially, its dimensions are if your batter hits better or worse in  you gue sed it  clutch situations compared to what they normally do. The Cubs together are hitting worse Chi Chi Ariguzo Jersey . Far worse. Like -5.88 wins worse.
The most critical offenders are Geovany Soto (-1.96), Tyler Colvin (-1.06), Lee (-0.95) the departed Ryan Theriot (-0.84), Alfonso Soriano (-0.75), and Ramirez (-0.50). Actually, those six batters account for nearly 50% of the Cubs high leverage plate appearances. Whenever much of the lineup is having serious i sues hitting in big spots, trouble is bound to ensue. Initially blush, using  Tyreek Burwell Jersey the talent about this roster, it looks like an element from the offense that regre sion along with a fresh slate will ostracize. Slight problem there: that last sentence could affect eight from the last ten seasons and today nine of the last eleven. Listed here are the Cubs Clutch scores dating back to 2000:
2010: -5.882009: -4.982008: 0.902007: -3.102006: 0.102005: -2.632004: -6.522003: -2.152002: -5.962001: -0.852000: -3.79
That, folks, is really a total of -35 wins. The Angels have become spectacles of clutch hitting perfection. If  Caraun Reid Jersey you take their Clutch scores since 2000 and add them all up, you wont reach 20 wins and if you simply accumulate the positive values you fall four shy of 30. The Cubs are e sentially the anti-Angels but to a higher degree. If someone would ink a holy book of unclutch named It of A-Rod (ironically, of course), the 2000-2010 Cubs could be all in that.
There doesn't seem to be a common thread Dwight Lowery Jersey  either. Theyve had four different managers over this span, numerous hitting coaches  including  Steve Williams Jersey the highly praised Rudy Jaramillo  or even a handful of general managers. Maybe everything, from teaching to evaluation and preparation methods remained the same, however that seems unlikely. This phenomenon drains on players homegrown and free agents signed alike. It seems to carry no discrimination for age or position. The only thing constant is it has zapped the Cubs for the last decade plus and the answer why is mystifying.