Somebody needs to fix this

The Cubs are dropping their pants, but will Jed drop any trades?

Somebody needs to fix this
“Carter, it’s Jed. Just put me on hold and leave me there so I can pretend I’m working on something.”

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The Cubs are trying lots of stuff to get out of their collective offensive slump. Why just last week they played the White Sox and that really helped as they scored 14 runs in two games. But that’s not sustainable, as they only play them two more times (unless they meet in the World Series, of course) this year.

Craig Counsell played Michael Busch at second base on Sunday, the Cubs catchers stopped using balsa wood bats and went back to ash, and yes, shortstop Pantsby Swanson stopped showing so much ankle.

Pantsby? I mean Dansby. Whatever.

Anyway, the image at the top of the post is of Dansby over the weekend with his pants pulled down to his ankles—no, not like that…

Here he is normally.

Both of those look better than his baseball pants pulled down, but, so far it’s working.

He had five hits in 12 at bats with his pants that way including a homer and two RBI.

But he’d been hitting better anyway before the switch, and is batting .333 and OPSing .993 over the past week. On May 30 he needed a hit in his final at bat to keep his average over .200, but now he’s all the way up to .226!

Why, if he can boost that another 20 points he’ll hit as well as Cesar Izturis did for the 2007 Cubs. Hopefully before the Cubs Utility Tunnel of Fame Induction Ceremony later this year Dansby won’t do that thing to E-ramis Ramirez’s groin that Cesar did.1

It’s going to be a big trade deadline for Jed Hoyer, who has the burden of needing to add a closer, at least one more reliever beyond that, a big bat and a middle infielder not named David Bote. But that burden is lessened in that his current roster is so devoid of impact players that no matter who he gets (if anybody) there’s no problem giving them whatever spot they want.