Chicago Cubs: Projecting the Cubs’ Opening Day roster

Only a few weeks away from Opening Day, some Cubs’ position players and pitchers are starting to separate themselves from the pack. Some roster spots are a given at this point, but others are far less clear-cut, so let’s take a look at where we stand with 19 days to go until we start meaningful baseball.

As Chicago Cubs’ fans know from the long winter of an offseason, the Cubs haven’t made a lot of impactful roster moves and their position player group hasn’t seen a lot of change. Frankly, we can be fairly certain that the position player group is pretty much set, barring injury, of course. The pitchers are a bit more of a quandary because, well, bullpens are fickle; and, there’s the looming…