The Craig Kimbrel signing by the numbers

Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports Craig Kimbrel pitching in the ninth inning of game three of the 2018 World SeriesThe Chicago Cubs lead major league baseball in walkoff hits. It’s June 6 and they’ve already walked off a win five times, including three different walk off home runs in a week between May 7 and May 11. To put this in perspective, when the Cardinals walked off the Cubs last Friday in St. Louis that was the Cardinals' first walkoff win of the year. It’s been a remarkable stretch of Cubs baseball and we should all be very grateful for it.

But the reason those walkoffs existed is a little less celebratory, and I say this as a person who was lucky enough to be at a couple of those…