MESA, Ariz. – The day before the last Collective Bargaining Agreement expired, Cubs third baseman Patrick Wisdom got on a Zoom call with new hitting coach Greg Brown.
They’d exchanged texts and calls before, but this was their last chance to talk mechanics before the expected lockout cut off their communication.
“It’s tough,” Wisdom said this week, “because we’re trying to fix a little mechanical thing. And so when [hitting coaches are] presenting you with something, you’re like, ‘Okay, I’m gonna work on it.’ But now, I can’t talk to them or say, ‘Hey, are we still on the right path here?