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“I try to forget stuff like (Wednesday’s outing), and looking up at his numbers on the board, what he’s done for this organization, how consistent he has been with the time I was on his team in ‘15 and ‘16,” Ross said. “Those are the things I’m holding on to.”
Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta, center, helps paint a banner for graduation with principal Michael Herring, left, and eighth grader Tadhg Quinn, 14, right, and others in the auditorium at Jahn School of Fine Arts in Chicago on Monday, May 22, 2017. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
“There’s moments he should take in, like in a place that he’s done really special things, and continue to impact this organization and the young guys here, I think he’s done a phenomenal job this year (at that),” Ross said. “That’s not around our game enough. Our game’s gone really young, and I understand a lot of that. But there’s also that veteran voice that’s competed at a high level, that has a World Series ring, experience, who’s carried the load in some of the biggest moments in his organization’s history, this guy standing on the bump and we’re relying on him.
“Every month, from spring training to September, you want to be better in whatever you do,” Cairo said. “Hitting, defense, base running, pitching, catching, throwing to the bases. You want to be ready so when you go to those difficult games, whoever makes the fewer mistakes is the team that’s going to win.
“When you’re up and need the guy to come in and stop games, there’s definitely comfort in him pitching the ninth with the lead,” Ross said Wednesday. “But I’m also trying to use some of these back-end guys in moments where maybe it would benefit us for a pocket in the order that we feel like sets them up well, so we try to balance that. But I don’t see him pitching down a bunch of runs.”
“When we first pulled up, everybody was standing up, trying to see the field, trying to see what’s around us,” ACE center fielder Ezra Essex said. “Even when I watched the movie, I was like, ‘I’m going to see this soon.’ Now we’re here to really see it. I’m just taking it all in. It’s a great experience.”
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“Now actually getting to firsthand see how he works, how he operates, to talk through how he likes to run routes, when he’s expecting the ball to come out on certain timings on these routes, it’s been great, just the communication that we’ve been able to have,” Dalton said. “That’s what we’ve got to have this time of year. And it’s so nice for both of us, we’ve played a lot of football, so we can talk through different looks and we both understand what we’re expecting to see.”
“(Dalton) could play tomorrow in a (regular-season) game and I would feel great about it,” Nagy said. “Our players would feel great about it. That’s probably why he’ll play less snaps. If we go out there and score a touchdown on the first drive, I can promise you if it’s three plays, he’s out. But if we want to see more and he feels like he needs more, too, we’ll do that. It’ll be a chance for us to talk through it. And again, we need to evaluate Justin, so we’re going to want to see him do some stuff.”
Cubs right fielder Jason Heyward adds his signature to a beam on Aug. 11, 2021, at the future site of a 10-acre sports, education and health campus in the 1800 block of North Laramie Avenue that will include a 120,000-square-foot indoor sports facility. The facility will host youth sports, tournaments, soccer programing and basketball. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)