Let’s discuss Mike Montgomery. He’s good, right?
Though the Cubs have signed Tyler Chatwood and are one of two or three teams pursuing Yu Darvish, the most notable free agent signings across all of baseball so far this winter have been relief pitchers. The school of thought among many front offices is that starting pitchers fatigue once they’ve gone through a batting order twice, or at least that hitters have picked up on enough tendencies that they are better prepared to attack.
As point of fact, major league hitters posted a .