We’re not here to throw other media outlets under the bus, but I can’t help but do a Javy Baez “piss-off” gesture when reading the following introduction to a recent Wade Davis article: “It was only three springs ago that the Chicago Cubs witnessed Jose Veras eroding from their closer to being released only two months into the 2014 season.”
The Davis/Veras comp was prompted by the new Cubs closer’s 19.46 spring ERA. Joe Maddon doesn’t seem perturbed by Davis’s numbers, even suggesting that the former Royal and Ray has never looked better in camp.