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Say whatever you want about Alfonso Soriano, but without the Cubs team leader in runs and strikeouts, the Cubs wouldn’t have swept the Nationals over the weekend. I haven’t held much back when talking about Soriano’s diminished speed this season, which has undoubtedly cost the Cubs some games by way of poor defense and baserunning mistakes. Furthermore I tried to make the point in a recent episode that he simply isn’t fast anymore, that he’s slow and all the footage we saw from his days as a Washington National must have been played at double speed. I’d even started thinking that the Geico cash stack could play a better left field, and was planning on mentioning that the next time it was appropriate to do so.

Then some things changed…at least for now.

We’re poised to discuss his resurgence at the plate in a new episode of Cubscast later this morning, but before I discuss it with Sheps I want to share an awesome e-mail we received from a listener in Scotland named Alex:

In regards to your Alfonso Soriano discussion from the last Cubscast, I thought I might share one or two thoughts. I moved to Scotland back in February, and have only been able to follow the day games via MLB Gameday and Cubscast. Now, having had several leg injuries of my own including tears of most every ligament in both ankles and a torn hamstring, I can understand why he would have lost speed. I was a track standout in High School. Speed is something I have always had, but after injuries I lost a lot of speed.

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