Chicago Cubs manager Dale Sveum optimistic about future with the new inductions – MLB News
The Chicago Cubs' manager Dale Sveum on Sunday, August 5, expressed his confidence and hope about the youngsters recently inducted in the club. Referring to the likes of Anthony Rizzo, Brett Jackson and Josh Vitters, the manager said the players have got what it takes to succeed in the big leagues in terms of the proper hand and bat speed.
"These guys have bat speed, they've got hand speed," Sveum said of the youngsters. "These are the things you want to see at the big league level and how they develop."
Evidence of it was to be seen, among other encounters, on Sunday when all three contributed in a way or another for the offence. Although the Cubs lost the game to the Los Angeles Dodgers by 6-7, the three in the offence played positively.
Anthony Rizzo hit a game-tying home-run, his ninth homer of the season and Jackson grounded out in his first at-bat. Not only that, Jackson came up with a single in the seventh and scored on Alfonso Soriano’s two-run double in the same inning.
Vitters contribution was to be seen in the seventh inning when he flied out to the left as a pinch-hitter. All these are among the positives for the Cubs. Such moves, that were aimed at introducing new players, would be among the imponderables when the season started.
Anthony Rizzo’s role has been so dominant that the Cubs looking to him for bolstering the team’s offence and guiding them to the victory stand. Rizzo, on the other hand, maintains that the Cubs vision is that of winning.
"The vision is winning," Rizzo said. "That's what this whole organization has its vision on is winning. At the end of the day, as long as a 'W' comes, it doesn't matter who's here. There's probably a 16-year-old in a few years who will be up here. It doesn't matter if it's him, or a 40-year-old veteran."
Sunday’s game against the Dodgers, even though it might not have resulted in the team’s win, proves the fact that Cubs are in perfectly building phase, holding the potential to come forward as ever stronger and successful team.
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