Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times attempted to get to the bottom of Starlin Castro’s season-long struggles by asking Chicago Cubs shortstop if has ADHD.
Wittenmyer opens his provocatively entitled column, “Speculation or not, Cubs’ Starlin Castro has no plans to seek ADD diagnosis,” with the following:
It’s called attention deficit disorder, or ADD.
“I know what it is,” Starlin Castro said.
That doesn’t mean the Cubs’ shortstop wants to know anything more than that about the subject.
Throughout Castro’s career, mental lapses, moments of lost focus and inexplicable errors on routine plays have raised speculation among fans, scouts and even some in his organization – including the clubhouse — that he has a form of the common disorder.