Cardinals fans can only laugh as Cubs consider truly desperate pitching addition
The Chicago Cubs are getting desperate.
This offseason presented Jed Hoyer with plentiful opportunities, and he delivered … some of the time.
The Kyle Tucker trade was huge — the sort of aggressive swing this front office too frequently passes on. He may
leave next winter, but even so, Tucker meaningfully elevates Chicago’s stature in a wide-open NL Central.
Beyond the Tucker trade, however, it has been a slow-moving offseason for the Cubs. Roki Sasaki was pinned on every dream board in the greater Chicago metro area for a year, but he never seriously considered the Cubs when it came time to put pen to paper. Chicago has a two excellent top-line starters in Justin Steele and Shota Imanaga, but depth is a major concern — a concern Hoyer has stubbornly ignored until right now, when the pickings are frightfully slim.
Yes, the Cubs need another dependable starter, but it matters which “dependable starter” Chicago targets. Not every addition is an improvement. As for who the Cubs are currently in negotiations with? Well, it falls in the category of subtraction by addition, and it’s the sort of classic Jed Hoyer blunder St. Louis Cardinals fans can take extra pleasure in.
