Let me just go ahead and inform you right off the top that there’s nothing particularly novel or illuminating about this post. Rather, it’s a slightly updated aggregation of information you may have been privy to since early in the original offseason. With baseball at a standstill and little else of note taking place, however, I felt compelled to put this together after a talk with Cubs bullpen hopeful Dakota Mekkes.
The big righty had told Cubs Insider back in October that he really wanted to work on what had to that point been a “sweepy” slider.