2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 30

The photo reel for this feature is starting to look like a Willson Contreras slide show. The Cubs catcher is scalding hot right now. He’s now notched three Superhero awards over the last five games and “settled” for the Hero the other two games. What does that look like in familiar numbers? He’s got an absurd line of .550/.654/.950 (wRC+ 333) over that stretch. I said it yesterday and I’ll double down and say it again: Willson has been the best catcher in baseball over the first roughly 20 percent of the season.

This was the first series since the opener that feels like a puzzle piece that doesn’t “fit” the equation. The Cubs have been largely outclassed facing a variety of the better teams…