A little less than two weeks ago, April 8, a Cubs game against the Brewers at Wrigley Field was postponed, officially due to “inclement weather.” The call to postpone the game wasn’t made until 11:40 a.m., about 20 minutes after the gates at Wrigley were scheduled to open (they never did open that day). While it had rained much of the morning April 8, rain was much more scattered the rest of the afternoon, leading some to wonder why the game had been called.
I had the chance to have a conversation with David Cromwell, Cubs Senior Vice President of Operations, who is the team’s point person regarding weather postponements and delays, about the process that day as well as how decisions are made about postponements in general.