Doug Glanville

Well, in some ways, like, when you have the known information, it may be harder in some ways.

The guy's like, well, he might be back.

He could be back.

You know, like, do I make this move?

Because you're not necessarily making a move as the Cubs to say, let's just get in.

You know, you're not the Mariners a couple years, like, let's just get in the playoffs and end this drought.

You're trying to win.

when you're trying to win you're making decisions on am i going to move people in my minor league system that have this huge upside for a you know rental that may only get us to you know the wild card so that's the calculus you have to make now if you have a guy who's out and it's not saying that's ideal with justin steele or anybody but the idea of someone who might be out then you know that okay i need to add this front line starter i just have to do it and a lot of teams nowadays it's pretty standard

that they're injured, pitchers are hurt, and that's just given, and they're coming back like the Yankees, Garrett Cole or whatever, that's like the best trade you can make.

It's like, oh, by the way, I'm getting Garrett Cole.

So that is ideal in some scenarios because you don't have to make the moves.

You have to just get someone healthy.

And Blake Snell is a good example.

So that's where the Cubs have to make that calculation on making that decision on whether who's getting healthy, but also what are we going to give up for this immediacy and hope that it does more than just get you in.

I'll tell you what, the NL Central is so fun right now.

So I would say enjoy it.

I mean, they're a lot of fun.

I mean, Terry Francona, I played for him.

He is marvelous.

And by the way, they haven't like outslugged anybody, but they have guys like Eli De La Cruz, just exciting players.