In just five seasons, Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein assembled a team that is competing for the franchise’s first World Series title since 1908. Is he any good?
↗ STRONGSIDE
- Finished first in class at Yale School of Sabermetrics
- Only person in America emotionally invested in Single-A South Bend Cubs
- Views baseball game as hundreds of formulas running across field
- Believes this might be the year he finally wins fantasy baseball league
- Can explain phenomenon of curses using highly complex linear regression
- Turned the 2002 Red Sox into a contender using only the second-highest payroll in baseball
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↙ WEAKSIDE
- No fucking way he could do this magic turnaround shit for the Padres
- Lucky shirt costs $400
- Not even sure how to use gut feeling at this point
- Helped make Curt Schilling a World Series hero
- Took almost six years after college to achieve every single one of his dreams
- Still doesn’t have statistic named after him