The Cubs, like many teams, could use another good arm in the bullpen. With Opening Day less than two weeks away, closer Craig Kimbrel has shown signs of the same mechanical issues he had to work through at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020. Last season the Cubs managed to plug that hole first with Rowan Wick and later with Jeremy Jeffress, but Wick is still sidelined by the oblique injury that sent him to the IL on September 16 (although there is good news on that front for the first time in months) and Jeffress is a player without a team a little more than a week after the Nationals mysteriously parted ways with the reliever for “personnel reasons.
The Cubs and the Dillon Maples conundrum
