Cubs are a month from spring training and have done nothing to improve

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The Cubs are taking inaction to a new level this winter, doing nothing to improve.

We’re about a month out from players reporting to camp in Arizona. That’s exciting in and of itself, but right now, the Cubs don’t have a starting left fielder, have a glaring hole at second base, lack a backup catcher and only has three legitimate starting pitchers on the roster.

The entire offseason has been about shedding payroll: lots and lots of payroll. As Bleacher Nation so adeptly put it earlier this winter, it’s been ‘subtraction by subtraction.’ They’ve lost Yu Darvish, Kyle Schwarber, Jon Lester, Albert Almora, Victor Caratini, Jason Kipnis, Jose Quintana and Tyler…