Corey Patterson

and then

to close out the game while the cubs were losing was another in sergio mitre you may recall wow wow a lot of future uh pieces that didn't turn out um okay so the so the lineup now remember this is 2003 Cubs made the big trade in July after the Corey Patterson injury.

So the center fielder for this game would have been...

Daniel Lofton.

yes same do you remember uh tom goodwin who played 87 games but only batted 184 times

Only because one of my best friends in high school was named Patrick Goodwin, and that made an indelible mark where I was like, hey, there's a guy in the Cubs with the same name as my friend.

The utility player of that era was Lenny Harris, who played 75 games, 146 played appearances, third baseman, because before the Cubs got Ramirez, remember, I mean, before they got the Ramirez-Lofton deal, right? They had Corey Patterson in center, so that's fine.

That was just a flip from Patterson to Lofton.

That Jesus Sanchez Award goes to the worst outfielder that the Blue Jays have defensively.

Cory Patterson played, uh, the, and, and Cory Pat-

You're going too deep cut.

You're going too deep cut

... and Co- Cory Patterson also had, like, a, a, a, a good defensive rep, but he was fast.

You're, you're just showing off now.

We're moving on.

19 years old, been the Cubs' first 19 or under player.

Well, I guess that would have been, Corey Patterson, if you'd made it to double A, but at the end of the day, like just what he's showing has just been incredible.

There's not a ton more that you can say about Josiah.

Timeline wise, very difficult.

Right.

And, and, you know, the other aspect of it, too, is, like, uh, okay, looking at it through a Cubs lens, like, how many times did we think, you know, uh, Corey Patterson or, you know, Felix PA or whoever was gonna be a...

the next great player and it didn't work out?

Mm-hmm.

And that is the first time each of those things, not together.

That is the first time that each of those things have been done by a teenager in the Cubs system since Corey Patterson did it back in 1999.

Yeah, that's pretty

crazy stuff,

oh he was still bouncing around at the time not he's still bouncing around now 24 years no no no no

no no actually this was this was his rookie year i think probably okay corey patterson yes yeah yes batterson uh batting third free agent acquisition in year one of a three-year deal the worst of his three years yeah who had a great year in 2004 when it didn't matter um the first baseman who had been acquired uh in a trade the year before or two years before when they were in the pennant race while i was at wrigley field in the bleachers was big deal uh do you remember

Of course I do.

Fred McGriff.