In The Wheelhouse

Today on In The Wheelhouse we predict MLB’s end-of-year awards. We’ll talk about a recent Peter Gammons piece in The Athletic on the decline of pitching development. https://theathletic.com/539450/2018/09/24/gammons-baseballs-system-for-developing-pitchers-is-broken-and-its-hurting-the-game/ We give our playoff predictions to the extent we know who those playoff teams are, we tackle the questions on everyone’s minds: “Will anyone strike out Willens Astudillo again?” https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/willians-astudillo-hasnt-struck-out-in-55-plate-appearances/ and as always, this week with the Chicago Cubs.