Show yourself out, Phil
Well, not yet they have nobody to replace you with
The Cubs just finished up a road trip in which they were pretty awful, going 3-6, losing two of three to the Rangers, Barves and White Sox. As a team they had mostly stopped hitting until they got to the south side, scoring just five runs in the five games prior.
We know that the pitching staff is in disarray, with injuries to Cade Horton, Matt Boyd, Caleb Thielbar, Hunter Harvey and Riley Martin.
One guy who is allegedly no longer injured, Phil Maton (who was on the IL in late April and early May with knee tendinitis), but Phil is, to use a highly technical baseball term, shitty.
He allowed a three-run homer yesterday to break a 4-4 tie in the eighth, to Edgar Quero, one of the worst players in baseball. Quero went 3-for-5 in the game to raise his season average to a robust .176. Edgar's a catcher, and he was successful on five of six challenge attempts, which was news, because coming into the game, he was dead ass last in all of baseball (82nd of 82 catchers) in challenge success.
Maton was the Cubs one big bullpen acquisition in the offseason. They paid him $15 million over two seasons, and so far this year he has allowed 16 hits and 13 runs in 12.1 innings (9.49 ERA).
The Cubs will be patient with him for three reasons.
