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Jon Lester is gone. Yu Darvish is gone. Jake Arrieta is gone (well, the Jake Arrieta is gone). But Kyle Hendricks remains, leading the Chicago Cubs rotation in a more obvious way than he ever has before. Having signed a four-year, $55.5 million extension with the Cubs ahead of the 2020 season, the closest thing the Cubs have to a legitimate and studly homegrown starter is now the clear ace of the staff. Of course, that’s hardly new to most of us. With Hendricks, 31, we’re well past the point of waiting for the other shoe to drop. He’s seven years into his big league career (all with t...

David Does Dallas: The Finale Share this story Kevin Jairaj/USA TODAY Sports As I write, exactly 50% of respondents to Monday’s poll on the amount of games Dahl plays in 2021 selected the 91 - 120 games range. Having never played more than 100 games in an MLB season, we would certainly love to see Dahl maintain his full health, and appear in 150+ games. For the purposes of the projections that will appear in this piece, I’ll be assuming Dahl plays 125 games. Projected to that 125 games point, with the same performance as Dahl put up in reality, Dahl’s previously successful MLB seasons w...

HPR's All Things Considered Off the Road with Peter Frampton February 2021 - part two Today HPR All Things Considered Host Dave Lawrence concludes our latest interview in the Off the Road series with rock legend Peter Frampton. Peter recently released his memoir, Frampton Forgets the Words, a collection of instrumental covers (hear the first single below). Peter joined us from his home in Nashville. Peter Frampton’s career continues decades after his music career began in the 1960’s, and he joined us after his Finale Tour was interrupted by the pandemic, sharing stories about how the...

HPR's All Things Considered Off the Road with Peter Frampton February 2021 - part one Today on our Off the Road series, HPR All Things Considered Host Dave Lawrence welcomes back rock legend Peter Frampton. The talented guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and sometime drummer returns to the show ahead of his latest album due out in April, Frampton Forgets the Words, a collection of instrumental covers, and following the release of his outstanding memoir, Peter Frampton has had an amazing career that began in the 1960’s and continues to this day, with the aforementioned upcoming album cove...

February 4, 2021 You know it’s almost time for baseball season when all of the major projection systems forecast Kyle Hendricks‘ ERA one run per nine innings too high. As much as this sounds like a knock on those who develop projections, it’s not. What Jared Cross (Steamer), Dan Szymborski (ZiPS), Derek Carty (THE BAT), and the folks at Baseball Prospectus (PECOTA) do is no small feat. If I weren’t too cowardly to even try to create my own projection system, I would be too stupid to design one that is half as effective as theirs. Glass houses and all that.