This week, in honor of my Chicago Cubs finally winning the World Series, you are going to see articles featuring the 2016 Chicago Cubs using Steve’s APBA Card Computer*.
For Weird Card Wednesday this week, I was in a bit of a fix. Since the cards I was using were not official, there were no “Weird” (or alternatively, all of the cards could be considered weird). So I went into a different direction. I entered the stats of Cubs’ manager Joe Maddon’s very first year in the minors into Steve’s APBA Card Computer and the resulting card was displayed.
Maddon came up and played A ball for the Midwest League’s Quad City Angels in 1976. Like so many future coaches and managers, Maddon was a catcher for the California Angels affiliate.
| Tm | Lg | Lev | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quad Cities | MIDW | A | 50 | 163 | 18 | 48 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 18 | 22 | .294 | .360 | .362 |
I guess Maddon didn’t do too badly. In 50 games, He batted .294 in 163 at-bats giving him a respectable 44-7. He didn’t have much power though. His 9 doubles would probably warrant a 6-6 power combination.
Joe Maddon played four seasons in the minors though he never made it past single-A. By 1979, he turned in his tools of ignorance and focused on the brainier part of the game. By 1996, he was managing his very first team, the California Angels.
* The cards generated from Steve’s APBA Card Computer are purely predictive and not considered official APBA cards.
