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At the beginning of the week of winter meetings, the Cubs talked over the metamorphosis of their bullpen throughout last season.
“What we thought about our bullpen going into the season, ... we were wrong,” manager Craig Counsell said in his winter meetings media availability Tuesday in Orlando. “We were pretty wrong on it. We ended up pitching pretty well. But at the start of the season, it maybe wasn’t the guys that we expected to do it.”
What’s the lesson there?
“Get a bunch of good arms,” Counsell continued, “and see what happens, and have enough ability to pivot when you have to during the season.