Mark Grody

And so, obviously, a huge blow.

If you look at a similar timeline as what Justin Steele has gone through, probably not seeing...

Cade until late May, early June next year, depending on the extent of the surgery when they go in.

So, I mean, they have obviously enough starters right now to fill the innings.

You know, Colin Ray is getting the start tonight in Tampa, which is where Cade would have slotted in.

Javier Assad stepped up for Matthew Boyd yesterday.

So they have starting pitching depth, but you're obviously having a drop-off in terms of just

the sheer stuff.

And so obviously, you know, that's, that's really hard to replace, especially this early in the season.

Yeah, and I mean, look, I understand a lot of Cubs fans were frustrated and concerned going into yesterday's game that they were 4-10 to start the season.

But I mean, honestly, there's going to probably be more 4-10 stretches over 10-game windows over the course of the season.

And I think the fact that they didn't completely bury themselves because of pretty good starting pitching and overall solid defense, that there's going to be times where

offenses naturally kind of have the ebbs and flows of the season.

But I mean, you, you talk to a card council, you talk to the players in the clubhouse and, you know, there's just confidence that it's going to get going.

Like there's too many good hitters.

And there's the underlying metrics of, like you mentioned, like the hard hit rate, you know, drawing walks, seeing a lot of pitches.

Like there's a lot of reason to believe that like this offense is going to get going.

And obviously there were signs of that last night and,

obviously most teams are dealing with not hitting in great weather right now, but I feel like the Cubs in particular have dealt with some kind of extreme.

So I think as the weather gets better, you know, that's going to kind of even out more too.