Ok, so, yes, great day for Andrew Chafin content, yes, I’m still pretending he’s on the Cubs, yes, the month of May and the front half of June was incredible and I’m so glad we had those six weeks of joy, yes, I’m still touched that Jed Hoyer was smart enough to move Chafin at a time when he could get his deserved love as the biggest departure of the deadline week (in terms of upper-lip hair). Anyway, I started that sentence intending to say: We’ll have the video of him mic’d up in batting practice at the end of this.
But we’re here to celebrate our guy. We’re here to celebrate our Hall of Famer. And that’s what we’re going to do.
Now, I don’t know what happened with the graphic in this tweet. I don’t know why it looks like Travis Shaw broke a highlighter open and poured it out onto Andrew Chafin’s body. But we roll with it. Because I think that’s what Andrew Chafin would want us to do.
I’ll have you note that in the press release, Chafin was listed first. Just throwing that out there. If Kent State had a Hall of Fame within the Hall of Fame (HOF2 I believe is the moniker), Chafin would be in it. I’ll also have you note that Chafin was the MAC Freshman of the Year in 2009. Facts only. From the release:
Chafin appeared in 88 games for the Golden Flashes including 34 starts. Chafin was a 2011 All-American, a two-time First-Team All-MAC, the 2009 MAC Freshman of the Year and a member of the 2011 MAC Championship team. Over 124 innings in his collegiate career, Chafin racked up 160 strike outs and pitched to a sterling 1.80 career earned run average. He was a first-round selection of the Arizona Diamonbacks and helped the Chicago Cubs reach the 2020 post-season after being moved at the trade deadline. After another strong season out of the bullpen on the north side of Chicago, he was acquired by the Oakland A’s for the 2021 stretch run.
God bless him. Honored to be in a world that honors Andrew Chafin as it should.
Ok, now you get to see Chafin talk to A.J. Puk about conspiracy theories.
