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Probably needs a day off in front or behind of a day off for the team. He's logged a lot of innings this year.

he has always been a very slow starter, last year with Boston being an exception, but he always rallied to post good numbers. However, this year his bad start lasted 3 months - longer than usual so I began to doubt - maybe the Cubs models that said he would age well were wrong. Well, looks good now. He's hitting some good pitching very well and his defense is stellar.

Yeah, I thought after that last outing that we could not afford to hope he fixes things....these games are too important. I like Shota - I hope he does get it figured out, but if I was managing I would not have the sack to start him.

I'm honestly not surprised, Bregman has been an above average defensive third baseman for a long time, he was a good SS in college and only moved to 3rd to accommodate up and coming Correa. And he was great at third from the first day there.

Exactly, I was wondering if I'd ever see 9 innings of well pitched ball by my Cubs all year. We've had several good starters efforts the last 3 weeks but little or no bullpen success. Got both today against the "unbeatable" Brewers. Finally!! The guys we have are just going to have to pitch better, it's as simple as that, can't count on Steel or Shelby Miller or Cabrera saving this bullpen.

It's maddening. A buddy of mine said they just put the ball in play that's why they are so successful. But specifically yesterday they were getting hit after hit off bat handle bloopers and we putting the ball in play just as much but ours were barreled up rockets to the track for outs. I know baseball is random like that a lot but it's maddening at times.

It's like everyone went to chit at the same time, I don't trust anyone in the pen right now. It's scary.

Fantastic trade-off - we always forget the season is 162 games long. Hell, Conforto is giving us more than Tuck is giving the Dodgers this year as has been well chronicled.

Agreed, I'm very concerned that Boyd will struggle.

Wasn't this guy who started last night supposed to be good?

You've convinced me - I'm Adrian in Rocky IV to the Cubs - "YOU CAN'T WIN"!!!

Pitching matchup CLEARLY favors D-backs heavily today. So does that mean we win?

Bregman is a notorious slow starter, last year in Boston was an outlier. However, his slow starts have generally been 6 weeks not 3 months like this year, which was the scary part.

Absolutely, that is 100% fair game in that scenario and fully the D-Backs responsibility not to be so stupid in their signals.

yeah, he got barreled up pretty good. Last two outing were the right spots to use him and tells you all you need to know about what the Cubs staff and FO think right now.