An uncertain trade deadline status awaits the Chicago Cubs. Will they be buyers or sellers? M_Montemurro has more.
Their 7-4 loss at Angel Stadium on Tuesday night featured a little bit of all the things, big and small, that have plagued the team en route to a 26-34 start in what was supposed to be a more competitive season.At the 60-game mark, the 2023 iteration of the Cubs is only three wins better than its, though last year’s group was seven games into a 10-game losing streak at this point.
Cubs President Jed Hoyer gives an interview in the dugout before a game against the Brewers on opening day at Wrigley Field on March 30, 2023. “Our focus is we need to be consistent as a team and claw our way back into the race. It’s not that far of a climb. We just need to play consistent baseball, and my hope is we do that.”Hoyer believes the Cubs possess the starting pitching needed to produce the winning stretch they desperately need. But the continued unreliability of the bullpen threatens that.
The Cubs are fortunate the National League Central has been terrible. Even after Tuesday’s loss, they sat 6½ games behind the first-place Milwaukee Brewers. The St. Louis Cardinals own the worst record in the division, while the rebuilding Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds need to prove their solid two months are for real. The Pirates, at plus-2 through Tuesday, are the only NL Central team with a positive run differential.
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