I’m one paragraph into writing this piece and I already know what the comments are going to look like. Chicago Cubs fans, by and large, vehemently oppose anyone who believes the next half-decade of Yu Darvish will be anything but a disappointment. And that’s fine. You’re entitled to your opinion.
But I’m of a different mindset. I don’t care about 2018. It was nothing short of a disaster when it came to Darvish. He made eight starts, pitched only 40 innings and didn’t take the mound after mid-May. Really, there’s nowhere to go but up.
The right-hander went under the knife in September for an elbow procedure after spending months unsuccessfully attempting to work back from the injury that seems to have been misdiagnosed by the medical staff.