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In the visitors’ clubhouse at the Rangers’ ballpark in Arlington, Texas, on May 30, a Cubs-Reds game was showing on a pair of large-screen TVs. Pete Crow-Armstrong, the Cubs’ breakout superstar, dug in at the dish while a graphic displayed his gaudy offensive numbers.
“Fifty RBIs?” Cardinals veteran starting pitcher Miles Mikolas thundered across the room at left fielder Lars Nootbar. “Is that a lot? I don’t hit. I don’t know.”
Nootbar, one of the team’s best hitters, just shook his head from side to side as if to say, “It’s crazy.”
Or as he put it to a Chicago reporter moments later, “Stupid, man.