When Major League Baseball announced the Cubs are playing in the 2022 Field of Dreams Game, one of the players on the social-media graphic was Patrick Wisdom.
Not bad for a guy who had played 43 major-league games before this year.
Entering Sunday’s game against the Royals, Wisdom’s 20 homers led all National League rookies, a total that ties him with the 1993 Marlins’ Orestes Destrade for the NL record for homers in a season by a rookie 29 or older. Wisdom has gotten a chance and run with it, putting himself squarely in the picture for the 2022 Cubs, not to mention league-wide promotional materials.