Mark Grote

But my favorite Cub.

Where is he right now?

Where are they now?

We know exactly where Schwarber is.

Didn't he hit a home run on the first day?

On a slow train to the Hall of Fame.

My favorite Cubs player, Mark Grace, who was a singles hitter on base machine.

As a first baseman.

As a first baseman who it was hard for him to hit.

His career high in home runs, I'm going to guess, is 17 or 18.

I'm going to guess is what it was.

But he was usually a 10 home run guy.

But I love guys.

It was 17.

And I sort of evolved out of that in the slug era, like especially watching the Cubs of 2016, where it was all about hitting the ball over the wall.

But I'm kind of getting back to my roots a little bit when we think about Nico and Mark Grace, who I just loved watching that man hit baseballs.

Loved Tony Gwynn, loved all those guys, the Wade Boggs's, the Tony Gwynn's of the world.

And as Layla said, Nico's kind of a throwback.

Well, and Tony Gwynn, you know, not just famous for hitting it to the 5.5 hole, but just the career strikeout numbers were wildly low.

And when you consider that compared to what happens in baseball now, it's night and day.