Tyler Chatwood has become a meme among many Cubs fans in his two-plus years with the team. “Chat-walk,” they called him after he led the major leagues in walks in 2018 despite throwing only 103u2154 innings. Even though he had an improved 2019 season, many fans couldn’t forget all the walks.
Chatwood was slotted into the 2020 rotation mostly by default, with Cole Hamels departing and Jose Quintana injured.
The signing just might work out, more than two and a half years after it was originally made.
Chatwood threw six strong innings, allowing just three hits, two walks and a run with eight strikeouts, and the Cubs put together a varied offense to defeat the Brewers 9-1 on a hot, humid Chicago July afternoon and thus win their opening series of 2020.