{"id":389570,"date":"2026-01-05T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/389570\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:05:10","slug":"the-11th-day-of-cubsmas-11-runs-prevented-by-nico-hoerner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/389570\/","title":{"rendered":"The 11th day of Cubsmas: 11 runs prevented by Nico Hoerner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On the tenth day of Cubsmas<br \/>My true love gave to me<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleedcubbieblue.com\/chicago-cubs-analysis\/204603\/ryne-sandberg-cubs-all-star-cubsmas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ten All Star selections for Ryne Sandberg<\/a><br \/>Nine incredible Dansby Swanson plays in the Postseason<br \/>Eight home runs on the Fourth of July<br \/>Seven walk-off wins<br \/>A six (and a half) game lead<br \/>A five game winning streak<br \/>Four playoff wins<br \/>Three Schwarbombs in the first All-Star Game Home Run Swing-Off<br \/>A $2 scorecard<br \/>And an Anthony Rizzo retirement for the ages<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As we discussed a few days ago, the middle of the infield defense for the Cubs has been one of their keys to run prevention. According to Statcast, there were very few second basemen who were better at preventing runs than Nico Hoerner in 2025. Just check out this grab to save a run against the Padres <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fvideo%2Fjose-iglesias-lines-out-to-second-baseman-nico-hoerner%3FpartnerId%3Dweb_multimedia-search_video-share\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during the Wild Card Series [VIDEO]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Statcast measures both Outs Above Average (OAA) and Runs Prevented. By OAA, Nico was the best second baseman in the National League with 15 OAA. Among second basemen, he trailed only Mauricio Dub\u00f3n in MLB. According to Statcast, those 15 OAA resulted in 11 runs prevented. It\u2019s not hard to see plays that demonstrate why who had like this <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fvideo%2Fjameson-taillon-in-play-out-s-to-jordan-walker-w5oqgs%3FpartnerId%3Dweb_multimedia-search_video-share\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">diving grab to get Jordan Walker at first [VIDEO]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the tenth day of CubsmasMy true love gave to meTen All Star selections for Ryne SandbergNine incredible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,157043,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-389570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-chicago-cubs-commentary-and-analysis","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}