The Cubs had a 5-2 road trip to Miami and Pittsburgh over the last week, one of their most successful away from Wrigley Field this year. And they did all that with Nico Hoerner and Willson Contreras injured and Seiya Suzuki still in Japan awaiting the birth of his first child.
The makeshift Cubs lineups, which didn’t even look good enough for “insert other split squad joke here,” produced. Granted, the opposition was fairly weak. Still, you have to produce to win and these Cubs did.
Three up
Esteban Quiroz is making a case to be on the 2023 roster
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