When trying to come up with a way to describe Tyler Chatwood’s season that didn’t involve some combination of the words hot, garbage, dumpster, or fire, the best analogy I could make was to a reluctant sphinx. The righty starter has presented the Cubs with a riddle that they believe they’ve solved, but he just keeps changing it on them to prevent them from figuring it out.
And if that’s not frustrating enough, there’s the worry that “fixing” him could result in cutting off his nose to spite his face. Or maybe that’s just something I made up to better fit the whole sphinx thing, though some of Chatwood’s numbers suggest that he’s actually doing really well in certain regards.