Not even Antonio Alfonseca has enough fingers to point at everyone in the Cubs organization who bears some measure of blame for the 1-6 start. Whether it’s the final results or just the up-and-down nature of the games themselves, fans have needed barf bags at the ready when watching these games.
And it’s not like no one saw this coming. As soon as the Cubs said in November that they weren’t going to spend big in free agency, it was evident the bullpen would have to be strapped together with duct tape. Once the season started, however, it was clear that there was only room in the restricted budget for generic masking tape that since pulled apart under the first signs of stress.