An obvious waste of time

Things were going along mostly uneventfully at Cubs camp yesterday. Moises Ballesteros had finally arrived from Venezuela, with a few week layover in Colombia. The Cubs were showing off some incredible base running in early Cacti League action, and everybody was thrilled and amazed by every appearance of the fancy ABS graphics on the scoreboard.

The Cubs have built a good team, one that in a world in which the Dodgers weren't a thing would be a legitimate World Series contender.

And then...

Goddamnit.

Last week I wrote about what a complete bust a Nick Castellanos signing would have been. But Nick's regressive 2025 season makes Conforto's look like 2004 Barry Bonds.

How useless was Conforto last year, while tucked in the middle of the Dodgers' lineup?