If I had told you back in March that 60 percent of the Chicago Cubs rotation would be having great second halves, the first option many would have expected to be part of that triumvirate would be Jon Lester. Chances are, with the way he finished last year and then started this year, many of you would have guessed Cole Hamels would be on there as well. Yu Darvish probably would have been last on that list.
Yet, here we are heading into late August and that’s exactly the name you should have been throwing out there first.