Castro's Quest

The Savior knocked out 3 hits including his 9th home run last year and is up to 190 hits. That's 10 hits shy of the magic 200 mark for the math impaired. He has 15 games to do it, which I don't believe will be a problem unless Q-Ball decides he needs another life lesson on the bench. By my back of the envelope calculations, if he stays healthy, he's on pace to reach 3,000 hits by age 36 and the 2026 season. No pressure. - Baseball America took to some list making and recently rated the Cubs 2005 draft as the worst of the lot. A look at the 2006 draft, the first under Tim Wilken sees them moving up 5 spots. $11.5 million investment in Tyler Colvin (1), Jeff Samardzija (5) has yet to pay off. That year the Cubs lost their 2nd, 3rd and 4th round picks by signing Bob Howry(Type A), Scott Eyre(Type A) and Jacque Jones (Type B). Their 1st round pick was protected since it was in the top half of the draft. Other notable (notorious?) picks from that draft were Steve Cleve...