Ian Happ / Chicago Cubs (Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images)
Last season was hardly the year Chicago Cubs outfielder Ian Happ envisioned for himself but after a strong finish, he’s heading into 2020 with momentum.
It’s safe to say few folks saw Ian Happ opening the 2019 campaign at Triple-A Iowa, but that’s exactly what happened. After a dreadful stretch to close out the 2018 (he hit .196 in the second half), the Chicago Cubs were hoping to see improvement heading into camp. Instead, things went in a very different direction.
Happ spent the first half of the year in Des Moines, re-tooling his swing and working to show the Cubs weren’t wrong when they selected him in the first round of the 2015 MLB Draft.