Among the pantheon of Cubs players who’ve been unfairly maligned, few come close to Patrick Wisdom when it comes to being judged on a single facet of his game. Many of those tried and convicted in the court of public opinion are prosecuted on the basis of their big salaries, as we saw with Jason Heyward and Alfonso Soriano. Pete Crow-Armstrong has been accused of having no bat after just 19 trips to the plate, though he at least has time to make up for that lack of experience.
Wisdom, on the other hand, sees the highly subjective scales of justice tipped against him as the result of his strikeouts.