Mark Grody

I think they can maintain with the understanding that Justin Steele is coming back, with the two guys they have slotted in right now,

In terms of Colin Raiden Knight, Javier Saad, what we saw last night, those guys can be ample enough as long as your offense is doing the offensive things you expected it to do at the start of the season.

Yeah.

No, no, I'm saying the whole point, though, was you went out and got Alex Bregman so you wouldn't have the offensive problems of the second half last year.

My expectation was the offense was going to be better.

If it's not better, the Cubs are in trouble, regardless of if Cade Horton's on the mound or not.

Because that's a regular season thing.

Because that's what they do when Miles Michaelis is on the mound.

Yeah, I think the offense is going to be fine.

Yesterday was probably a bit of an aberration going up against Johnny Holstaff because you're not going to face Johnny Holstaff that often over the course of a season.

But it's good to have a season-high 16 hits under your belt.

It's good to see seven different players with multi-hit games.

It's good to score in six different innings.

So you take the positive and say, hey, we can build upon that.

Also, playing, as we heard from Ian Happ, at room temperature versus playing at a cold, wiggly field –

or a cold Cleveland, that makes a difference too.

I don't expect it to be any earlier because what's the rush?

You've got to take precaution.

Zach Gallin, he decided to stay home because they didn't have the money because they signed Shota Imanaga because of the qualifying offer.

There's a chain reaction.