If the Cubs want a quick rebuild, starting pitching must be top priority

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty ImagesIf there’s one glaring area of need throughout the Cubs’ 2021 season, it’s been the team’s lack of quality starting pitching. Even before the team’s mass selloff at the trade deadline, the pitching was the Cubs’ biggest hole.

President Jed Hoyer said following the team’s trades at the deadline that the Cubs will sit down and form a plan on how to get the team back on track. Whatever that plan is, starting pitching will have to be at the top of it.

No team is going to be able to compete allowing six runs per game. Too many times this season, manager David Ross has had to turn to his bullpen to cover 10, 12 and even 15 outs in a game. No team can sustain that…