Willson Contreras is catching Darvish's live BP session. David Ross, standing next to catching coach Mike Borzello, is giving Willy words of encouragement when he properly receives a pitch. "Nice and quiet, Willy!" Ross was saying.
Joe Maddon runs down why Javier Baez is an MVP contender and ends with this: “It’s hard to evaluate baseball intellect and acumen, but he got a 1600 on his baseball SATs.”
Remember how the Cubs maintained first place all that time without Kris Bryant? Now they've got him back, and showing off some oppo skillz to boot. And Javy is still El Mago-ing the you-know-what out of things. Baseball is fun again...for a night at least.