After weeks of fan (and, I’ll admit it, some writer) discussion about which of Leonys Martín, John Lackey and Justin Wilson would be left off of the Cubs’ 2017 NLDS roster, the answer turned out to be none of the above. All three men made the roster, announced Friday, and instead it’s Héctor Rondón who’ll be sitting watching his teammates play, elbow (presumably) wrapped in ice.
There are still questions about the degree to which Wilson (command; people hitting the balls he threw towards them very hard) and Lackey (home runs) will be effective in relief, but the Cubs presumably decided that Rondón’s bum elbow was a danger zone they didn’t want to mess with in a series that could well be decided by just a few runs in just a few innings.