During his farewell speech on July 4, 1939, the legendary Lou Gehrig said that he considered himself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. Though Christopher Morel is certainly facing a much less serious set of challenges than those that forced Gehrig to retire early, the young Cub may be the unluckiest man on the planet. Or at least in Major League Baseball.
As noted by Alex Fast, no other player has a bigger disparity between actual and expected wOBA since the start of May. That’s a gap of 101 points over a sample big enough to be taken seriously.