Cubs’ Pitching Pursuit Could Gain Clarity This Weekend

The last few days have seen the Cubs connected to several pitchers with varying degrees of relation to the organization and recent developments could see a homecoming or two. Though Jed Hoyer probably doesn’t have enough for two major league deals, at least not ones of any significance, he may have a little more wiggle room between Joc Pederson‘s salary structure and Tom Ricketts reportedly increasing the baseball budget.

We don’t know which of those is the chicken and which is the egg, but let’s operate under the assumption that Ricketts green-lit more spending in order to allow Hoyer to sign the former Dodgers outfield. Hoyer then set up the $7 million deal so that what by all indications…