I’m not sure if you heard, but Daniel Murphy is a Chicago Cub now. Yes, the Daniel Murphy who terrorized the Cubs in the 2015 NLCS, putting up a tidy 1.850 OPS. Yes, the Daniel Murphy who had a .413 career batting average as a visiting player at Wrigley Field. Yes, the Daniel Murphy who said some really ignorant things about homosexuals in 2015. Those comments do, and should, follow him from town to town. They are part of his legacy, right up there with his incredible ability to hit a baseball hard from foul line to foul line, and his defensive “range” which is limited to however far he can fall down in either direction when a ball isn’t hit right at him.



As The Athletic’s Jon Greenberg pointed out on Friday, Murphy’s comments from three years were slightly more nuanced than we remember them, but still pretty tone-deaf. His introductory Cubs press conference was slightly better executed than Aroldis Chapman’s in 2016.