Jim Deshaies, the Cubs’ color analyst, was a big-league pitcher at a time when National League pitchers still hit — or at least came to the plate carrying a bat ... Deshaies had 33 hits in his career, all singles ... “No,” Deshaies said.
Cubs TV analyst Jim Deshaies took a few minutes Tuesday to scroll through Baseball Reference’s “Today in Baseball History” page, something he’d done many times before ... It was 40 years to the day since Deshaies toed the rubber in St.