By now, all of Major League Baseball has access to information on the kind of damage Cubs rookie Christopher Morel can do with a fastball. And Morel knows even better.
“Sometimes he wants to hit 600-foot homers,” Cubs assistant coach Juan Cabreja told the Sun-Times, “instead of like 400-foot homers — that’s OK.”
What about 429-foot homers? That’s how far Morel launched a sixth-inning home run in the Cubs’ 8-3 win against the Reds on Wednesday at Wrigley Field.
Morel’s multi-hit game showed how effective he can be even as he’s adjusting at the plate to opposing pitchers’ shift in approach against him.