Cubs position player pitchers: Larry Biittner

Thinking about another off-season series to do, I came upon this idea.

Position player pitching has become fairly common in modern baseball, so much so that MLB has codified when a position player is allowed to pitch. Now, a position player can only pitch if one or more of these criteria is met:

• Game is in extra innings

• Team trailing by at least eight runs at any point

• Team winning by at least 10 runs in ninth inning

Most of the time, even before 2023 when these rules were put in place, those criteria were generally in place. Position players would pitch in blowouts to save the bullpen.

In this series I am going to limit it to Cubs position players pitching in the divisional play era (post-1969). Before that, this sort of thing wasn’t really much thought of by most managers. Th