This is my excerpt from a holiday post published at Cubs Den on December 24, 2020. We all wrote up some positive things about the Cubs and/or the upcoming season during a time when many were feeling down about the team and baseball in general.
I chose to write about the greatest relief pitcher of all time. Read the full post here.
When BP came up with the idea to do a fun, positive group post for the holidays I thought it was a great idea, but I also had no idea what I wanted to write about. This past season didn’t leave me feeling the best for a lot of reasons, and the Carolina Panthers didn’t do much to give me a happy football season, either.
Then I realized I had to write about the most on-brand thing of all for me: 2020 WILL BE THE YEAR OF DILLON MAPLES!
Yes, I say that every season. One of these seasons, I’m going to be right.
If you follow me on Twitter, you know I am an avid fan of Maples’s. Control issues? Fastball? What? Never heard of her. This is a positive post. He has the highest spin rate in the majors (average of 3,024 rpm compared to the league average of 2,424 rpm) and a slider that’ll make your momma tell you to run to church because it’s so filthy. He also has an incredible mustache, when he so chooses to sport it.
He hasn’t had consistent playing time in the majors, and I think that’s what he needs in order to fully figgurit out. And he will. I’m speaking it into existence, like in The Secret (I think, I don’t really know, I never read that book). He has all the potential in the world and amazing raw talent, and this season he’s going to harness it and become Megazord. MegaMaples.
Danielle Sauers 