Tonight, for the first time this season, the Rockies and Cubs will face each other. The three-game series at Coors Field comes with both clubs approaching how to run their organizations in very different styles.
The Cubs traded 11 players in the month of July, including Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant, and Javier Báez, in order to transform their farm system from being in the bottom third of the league to close to the top third. The Cubs did this after going 34-26 in winning the NL Central in 2020 and having a record of 51-56 going into Tuesday night’s game.