Nico Hoerner explains how he uses analytics to help his game

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Laurence Holmes and Russ Dorsey were joined by Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner to discuss the club’s recent struggles and how he uses analytics to help his game.

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0:00.0	in Odyssey Sports Station.
0:03.0	The score!
0:04.9	This hour is being brought to you by vasectomy clinics of Chicago.
0:11.2	Nico Horner on The Score is brought you by Toyota.
0:14.2	Visit your Chicagoland Toyota dealer or Toyota.com today.
0:17.9	Toyota, let's go places.
0:19.7	Benning 6, second baseman number two,
0:23.7	Nikol-Harner.
0:26.6	Nico Horner, that's so funny.
0:28.8	Nico Horner, how are you, man? Keep rocking it, mate.
0:31.2	Nico Horner, Gold Glove Award winner.
0:33.6	Nico Horner's Chicago Paddy.
0:35.4	Still haven't taken me with, so hopefully sometime this year. Keep trying, bruce. Nico really is the man. By the way, Nico Horner, Rinalis, he's got its own pizza. It has pineapple. Just a note. Starting second basement for your Chicago counts. Tubbs got their run way back in the first.
0:56.1	Horner single, still second.
0:58.1	There's a groundball sharply hit, diving stop by Horner.
1:00.7	Good play by Nico, and he throws to first to get Kurtz.
1:04.4	Nico took a base and away from him.
1:06.2	Out number one.
1:07.2	Yeah, a nice start to this eighth inning.
1:09.2	A couple pitches, Nico makes a nice play. I love Nico at the top.
1:12.7	He has such a, just a great mind and a great feel for, you know, you know, hitting with runners and scorches.
1:19.7	He does things where even if he makes an out, you see the attempt. He'll foul the ball off to the
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