There has been a lot of talk about Kerry Wood being the saviour of the 2006 season for the Cubs. These lofty expectations for a guy coming off shoulder surgery. He’s missed a ton of time over the last couple of seasons due to injury but now fans are looking to him to save the team’s season?
That’s just ridiculous. Expectations at the beginning of the year were that Wood would come back from his injury onto a team that was contending for a division title, but thingshaven’t exactly turned out that way. Derrek Lee’s broken wrist has led to a team that just can’t score runs. Whether that can be blamed on the manager or not is a different conversation.
I expect Kerry Wood to come off the disabled list and take the ball every fifth day and probably throw about 60 pitches (which will hopefully get him past the 4th inning) and contribute to the team. He’ll probably increase his pitch count slowly and be up to 100 pitches after 3 or 4 starts. I think Kerry Wood is a huge upgrade over Angel Guzman or Rich Hill, but he’s not going to come off the DL and drop 20 Ks on the Nationals on Thursday. And he probably won’t do that this year. I don’t think that is the end of the world. I’d like to see Kerry Wood win a few more than half of his games. I’d love to see come back and dominate. He might. But not right away. I think he’ll be fine, but I think the expectation that all of the Cubs’ problems will be solved by having one pitcher back from injury is just silly. Their problems run much deeper than that.
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