Way back when, grizzled veterans Jon Lester, John Lackey and Jake Arrieta would watch with bemusement as fellow Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks, still getting his big-league career off the ground, would pull down the brim of his cap, lower his head and slowly, serenely walk back to the dugout after each inning like a man without a care in the world.
“I thought it was odd,” Arrieta once put it.
