Five Reasons Why Alfonso Soriano Has Failed As a Chicago Cub

Year Three of the Alfonso Soriano Experience has yielded zero playoff wins for the Chicago Cubs, but thousands of headaches and head scratches. This year is the most frustrating of the three. Soriano is having the worst season of his career and has not shown signs of breaking out yet. His .235 batting average is actually less pathetic than his .733 OPS.  He has already whiffed 75 times, which for a leadoff hitter is...well, pathetic. I picked five reasons (though I could have picked 50) why Soriano is a failure as a Cub.    1.        Soriano Can’t Walk It is useless at this point to argue over whether or not Soriano should bat leadoff.  He is comfortable there, so just let it go. But I will call to attention the fact that Soriano can not draw a base on balls.  Soriano averages just 41 walks per 162 games.  That's not good by any means.  A leadoff hitter should at least have the ability to ... (link)