Cubs "fearsome" offense needs an upgrade
And no, it's not Jeimer
Over on The Score yesterday, baseball hunchback Bruce Levine was saying the same thing he's been saying for weeks now, that Jed Hoyer is on the cusp of making an early deal to bolster the Cubs roster. It wasn't true when Bruce said the same thing six weeks ago, it wasn't true a month ago, it wasn't true two weeks ago, but this time? This time, it's probably not true, either.
I'm sure Jed would like to make a trade, but the reason the Rafael Devers deal last week was such a shock is that good players are rarely ever traded six weeks before the trade deadline.
The Cubs clearly need to add at least one starting pitcher, and if you didn't think so, Colin Rea and Ben Brown both throwing batting practice to the mediocre offenses of Seattke and St. Louis, you should absolutely think that now.
But they also clearly need a bat. The offense in April and May looked pretty impressive, but they've struggled in June, and when you look up and they are playing a game against a left handed starter and Dansby Swanson is batting cleanup? Well, he's red hot. If .207/.237/.345 with 28 strikeouts to four walks over his last 23 games is red hot.
The Cubs are clearly still a bat short, no matter how hard Sahadev tries to cape for them.
The Cubs offense is great? Make no mistake this offense is fearsome?
Did he write this on Memorial Day?
Here's some of that great fearsomeness in June.
