Raise your hand if you thought either Matt Duffy or Jake Marisnick would be impact players for the Cubs. Keep it up if you thought both would be. Now take it down if you’re related to either of them. And you, yeah, you in the back…take yours down because you’re lying.
Marisnick has been a real shot in the arm for a team that had been getting diminishing returns from Albert Almora Jr., but the real benefit has come with Ian Happ scuffling. In addition to more than capably handling center, Marisnick already has supplied some necessary pop with four home runs.