Earlier this week the Cubs added James Norwood to the MLB roster. A bit of an unexpected call-up, it’s a valid question to ask why prospect types “missed” on Norwood. Beware, though. The answer to why Norwood was missed has a few levels to it.
A seventh-round Cubs draft choice from St. Louis University in 2014, Norwood became the first Billikens MLBer since Ken Sanders in 1976. Sanders had a nice stretch of success in the early seventies, and I’d take a third of that success for Norwood.
A hiccup with tossing all the minor league followers into the same kettle drum is that not all are running the same routine.