Calm down, the title wasn’t meant to be serious. At least not totally. But with June quickly drawing to a close, we’re seeing some pretty alarming offensive trends from the hitters at the bottom of the Cubs’ order. It’s gotten so bad, in fact, that the starting pitchers are routinely carrying the load in the lower third of the lineup.
Maddon’s been batting his pitchers 8th because lately they’ve hit better than the position players in the bottom third of the order.
— Evan Altman (@DEvanAltman) June 24, 2019
I made something of a joke about this on Twitter Sunday night in response to questions I’d seen about Joe Maddon his pitchers eighth.