Cubs, Hayden Wesneski found adjustment that’s ‘starting to make everything clear’

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Cubs right-hander Hayden Wesneski threw two scoreless innings against the Blue Jays on Sunday.The temptation to change the arm slot to manipulate a pitch makes sense. Sometimes the body moves toward a result without consulting the mind. And it can work.

“But it’s very inconsistent,” Cubs pitching coach Tommy Hottovy said.

So, Hottovy and the rest of the pitching coach staff have been working with right-hander Hayden Wesneksi to fight that temptation.

“It’s not the perfect done project,” Wesneksi told the Sun-Times in recent weeks. “But I definitely got closer.”

With Javier Assad in the rotation for the past couple turns, relievers like Wesneski have shouldered more of the multi-inning…