2009 Recap: Koyie Hill

Regardless of the type of hopes you may have had for the Cubs going into 2009, if I came back from the future and informed you that Koyie Dolan Hill would start every game between July 7 and August 9, you would have to resign yourself to the fate that the Cubs would not have a good year. We have seen and enjoyed many otherwise unimaginable medical advances in the past century, but one thing modern medicine cannot do is rebuild a destroyed human hand to function as it once did.  Much has been already said about Koyie Hill's three sawn-off fingers and their subsequent reattachment.  He had the opportunity to sound like a 50s-era sports cliche when he instructed his surgeons to "arrange my fingers so I can grip a baseball bat.  I mean, how John Tunis is that? Some would argue that Hill shouldn't even have been here.  After all, we had Hank White to back up Geo Soto.  What else would you need?  Of course, Hendry didn't seem to hold Hank i...