Tag Archives: eric patterson

Counting postseason all stars

Maybe it strikes you the same way: prospect-ranking websites seem to me to be overly numbers driven and amateur-draft driven, and insufficiently eyeball driven. I write about Cub prospects on a regular basis, and never set eyes on any of them unless they happen to show up on WGN on a Sunday in March during [...]

Is Guyer the guy? (Revisited)

The Cubs have any number of prospects having fine seasons, and so their choice of minor-league player of the year, Brandon Guyer, is noteworthy. If you glance at this list of former recipients of this award, you will see names that are familiar to Cub fans–Burke, Hoffpauir, Soto, Patterson (Eric), Dopirak, Choi, Jackson (Nic), Patterson [...]