The collective hand-wringing over Yu Darvish in Chicago is almost deafening. You know that awful noise when two pieces of Styrofoam come in contact with one another? It’s basically the figurative version of that literal noise. Of course, it’s mostly coming from people who don’t matter. Writers with hot takes to file, radio show callers and others of that ilk. As little as their input means, it would be encouraging to see Darvish get them off his back as quickly as possible.
Darvish rose above that din to make his return from the DL, where he landed because of the flu and an artful use of the 10-day designation by the Cubs, earlier this week against the Braves.