The second half schedule is brutal. Bregman and Nico have to get going. Both are trending towards career lows in wRC+ and by over a standard deviation.
No reason to pretend that Hunter Greene is Bob Gibson throwing off of a raised mound guys. Better yet, pretend that he’s Bob Gibson, you’d have more than 2 hits against him in 12 innings.
Sure. They had no business scoring 6 runs on Sunday and 4 the previous Sunday either though. There’s some give and take here. The only thing that’s consistent is a pitching staff incapable of picking up the offense, just the gloves.
There weren’t 6 playoff seeds back then, the Sox were 3.5 games out of any playoff spot, both division and wild card. That’s not the case with the Cubs. Trading Boyd right now isn’t something that “needs to be done”. It’s even more amusing after reading the link.