Matt Spiegel

I remember when the Cade Horton news came out that he's out for the season, will undergo elbow surgery.

I told y'all.

I'm not worried about the Cubs necessarily making the playoffs.

The division might be something that's going to be a lot more interesting now without your bona fide ace.

It's more of understanding what you need to make a playoff run once you get to the playoffs, and you've got to have guys who throw zeros.

Fortunate that one of these two replacements threw zeros.

Don't expect that every time out, but I feel like they can keep

opposing teams at bay well enough to have the Cubs in these games and having a fighting chance of winning most of the games that they start between Assad and Ray.

I think Ray does that every day behind that glass.

Makes it harder for me to try to do things over and over.

Oh, you're talking about Colin Ray.

My bad.

Oh, okay.

I got you.

Sorry.

So to the texter, I disagree.

about the part where I really don't feel like they believe in him, though.

I believe they believe they have pitching depth, and he just happens to be lower on the depth chart than the guys that started the season up.

When you talk about opening day starter Matthew Boyd, obviously Cade Horton, and then, of course, what you're paying show to Imanaga and their belief in him, I think they believe in him a little bit more than they believe in him.

But I don't think they don't believe in Javier Asad.