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Chris Volstad isn't the second coming of Kerry Wood. Nor Mark Prior. He's nowhere near the pitcher that Matt Clement was when the Cubs got him from the same place, 10 years ago.
But when the 6-foot-8 Volstad walks onto Wrigley Field for the first time in blue pinstripes, he will think he is being mistaken for Greg Maddux. That's how happy Chicago fans will be to see him in place of the utterly unreliable and sometimes anti-social Carlos Zambrano.
God bless Zambrano. And
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