After the Cubs signed Yu Darvish in February, there were a lot of people opining that this could be the best rotation in baseball and maybe the best in franchise history.
It's the first week of August and we still haven't seen anything close to that level of production from the Cubs starting staff.
Yet things are starting to look up for this rotation.
On a day when Darvish finally delivered some good news about his rehab process, Kyle Hendricks' final line in the Cubs' 5-4 victory didn't look all that great.
But beneath the surface, it was another step in the right direction for "The Professor.