If you ask any Chicago Cubs fan about the first year and half of Yu Darvish, all the answers would probably be the same. I’d expect words like ‘disappointing’, ‘failure’ or ‘wasted money’ likely come up more often than not.
Darvish signed a six-year deal worth $126 million late last offseason. Expectations were high for the right-hander when he arrived on the North Side. As Cubs fans, we all saw what Darvish could do firsthand in the 2017 NLCS while he was with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He pitched six innings against Chicago and only gave up one run and felt like he was in control the entire time.