Jed has gotten a lot more right than wrong, but turning the undisputed best reliever on the 2021 trade market into "slow infielder Juan Pierre but somehow a worse hitter" and a pitcher whose arm was apparently fastened together with shoelaces and a half broken zipper was a big miss
Assuming that does happen, I think that leaves Busch as the only damn player on the roster to both have an unassailably good season so far and not be on the IL. We're 6 weeks in.
ETA I forgot Assad
Yes, it appears he's probably got some sort of injury. It's really his own fault for playing well, we all know the rule is Cubs players aren't allowed to both play well and be healthy.
Today is apparently like one of those video games where you get on too long of a winning streak and the computer turns on the "you're not winning" chip.
I don't even want to speak a world without Pat Hughes calling Cubs games into existence, but if he were to retire I wonder if there would be a match there.
I doubt it helps, but he homered on a pitch that pretty much anyone who does this for a living should take yard. It was the gopher ball to end all gopher balls.