The Dodgers outclass and outscore the Cubs 20-3 in three-game sweep that tells the story of Jed Hoyer’s rebuild.
It’s at least the rebuild team president Jed"Don't Know The Definition of A Rebuild" Hoyer couldn’t bring himself to acknowledge when he purged the roster last July of every player of value not nailed down by additional years of club control. But it's even worse than many of us thought — in both upper management optics and on-field performance.
Wade Miley to the rescue? The veteran starter looked good in his four-inning rehab start for Iowa on Thursday, and he threw a between-starts bullpen Sunday in anticipation of a next assignment Tuesday or Wednesday. As for that “next great Cubs team” Hoyer likes to talk about and that chairman Tom Ricketts pledges Crane Kenney’s mysterious wheelbarrow of money to fund, this two-day, three-game beat-down by the Dodgers showed just how far the recently proud Cubs have to go to get there.
“We’ll get there,” Ross said. “There’s a lot of positives in where we’re going, but when you play teams like this, you see how fundamentally sound you have to be, how good you have to be on the bases, how good you’ve got to pitch and continue to have good at-bats. Those are all things these guys are working really hard to improve on. And we’re going to try to get there as fast as we possibly can.”
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