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Tim Wallach was many things. A five-time All-Star. A two-time NL doubles leader. A two-time Silver Slugger. A three-time Gold Glove winner. What he wasn't was good. His OPSes in the five seasons he went to an All-Star Game were: .706, .759, .858, .760, and .810. He won one of his Silver Sluggers while hitting only .260 (he hit .298 for the other one). He is a career .257/.316/.416 hitter who averaged 19 home runs and 82 RBIs in a 17-season MLB career with the Expos, Dodgers, and Angels. He is also the 13th-biggest Cub Killer of My Time.

If the entry on the 35th biggest Cub killer of my time were printed out, there's a very good chance that Dave Parker would roll it up and snort the foul lines through it. Throughout the course of his 19-year MLB career, Parker killed almost as many Cub pitchers as brain cells. Though Parker was never seriously a ... Read More

There are some members of the Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time who were still relatively successful players against MLB teams that WEREN'T the Cubs. The 37th biggest Cub Killer, Mike Fitzgerald, is not one of those guys. No, Fitzgerald was only a .235/.321/.346 hitter throughout the course of his ten-year career, which he spent mostly with ... Read More

(With sincere apologies to Dante Alighieri) Midway upon the journey through the T79 I found myself writing about Dante Bichette, For some horrible life choices had led me here. Ah me! How hard a thing it is to say What was the worst part of Dante Bichette. Whether his hair, his gap-toothed maw, or his unibrow. So bitter am I, having watched him bat against the ... Read More

When the Cubs signed Jim Edmonds early in the 2008 season, what was your first reaction? Irrational hatred? Yeah, me too. Until he had a terrific 2008 season with the Cubs, I hated Jim Edmonds with every fiber of my being. As it turns out, my hatred was well-founded. Prior to his arrival in Chicago, ... Read More