Craig Kimbrel Planning to Use New Data to Improve This Winter

Look, there’s no reason to sugar-coat this: Craig Kimbrel was a big disappointment this season. You can justify his performance however you like, but the fact of the matter is that one of the game’s all-time great closers was part of the reason the Cubs fell off a cliff down the stretch. Kimbrel’s inability to keep the ball in the yard cost his team games and weakened the shaky bullpen his mid-season addition was supposed to solidify.

Some believe that Dirty Craig is washed up and will be equally as unreliable over the next two years of his contract. Or, and this seems like at least as good a possibility, having an adequate preseason ramp-up period to get in shape could have him back to that…