Raise your hand if you had right-hander James Norwood pitching major innings for the Chicago Cubs this season. Nobody? Okay, raise your hand if you’d ever heard of him before that point? Still no one? Hmm.
Okay, I obviously can’t see whether anyone actually raised their hand after reading that. If I had to guess, though, I would say most, if not all of you, didn’t raise your hand. Heck, I had no idea who Norwood was until a few weeks ago.
The Cubs drafted Norwood, 24, in the seventh round of the 2014 MLB Draft.