The Cubs are winless since their spring training opener, but since this is all practice, the scores don’t so much matter as the part where most everyone we care about stay healthy…ah nuts, but we’ll cover that later. Anyway, we are heading into March with less than a month to go until Opening Day when the games actually do matter, so here are some stray thoughts while we still have some hope.
Third Base
In order to keep him relevant on a roster that likely has no room for him if he doesn’t hit (which he hasn’t much, but small sample size and all that), Nick Madrigal has been playing third base in the games he’s appeared in and hasn’t looked terrible.