After just one season as the Chicago Cubs hitting coach, Chili Davis barely had time to hang all the pictures in his office. And when I searched for an image of him for this article, there were none in a Cubs uniform. That’s how fast he came and went.
When he arrived, the plan was to help alter the approach of the Cubs’ hitters, and to get away from ‘launch angle.’ It was going to come down to situational hitting. In every situation the Cubs were in during the second half? Well, they weren’t very ‘situational.