Who could have seen this coming?
Three games in and the Cubs are running out of pitchers



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Just three games into the season the Cubs are already looking wanly at their Pitching Dearth Chart. Justin Steele finished his first regular season start the same way he finished his final Cacti League outing…sitting on the grass with the trainer staring at him with the confused gaze of a golden retriever who really thought you threw the ball that time.

If, you are someone who believes that Jameson Taillon isn’t a worthless tub of goo, then you are probably concerned that the Cubs somehow managed to end up with 40% of their starting rotation on the injured list before the first pitch of the second game of the season.
But hey, what are we worried about? Now is the time for the Cubs to really show off the fruits of their vaunted pitching infrastructure and call up yet another stud in a long line of stud pitchers from their farm system.
That’s what they did on Saturday when they called up Ben Brown. And if you didn’t know that Ben was the Cubs’ 10th ranked prospect, well, Boog told you approximately 47 times during his two inning debut that night.
Brown got through his first inning unscathed, though he did walk a batter and throw a wild pitch.
You could see by the sigh of relief he gave when Yan Gomes came over as they walked off the mound after Ian Happ caught Wyatt Langford’s two out line drive, that Ben thought he was done for the night.

Great job, rook!
Could you give us one more inning?
Turns out, the answer was no.