Cubs have a pitching conundrum
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What is the current state of the Cubs' pitching staff?
Rahimi, Harris, and Grody.
Write this down, guys, as a segment idea. It's going to be called Don't Be an Idiot with Marshall Harris.
I'm not an idiot. Middays 10 to 2. Don't be an idiot. On 104.3 The Score.
At some point, you guys are going to have to whiteboard that for me, the don't be an idiot. And I say that out of context and with context. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on a Tuesday. Thanks, Ray Diaz, working the ones and twos with David Dykstra, our producers today. Double D! We're working on nicknames. Poor David is going to get taken under Mark Roddy's wing like Tyler Ferengel, whether or not he wants to be.
His nickname shall be from here forth. You ready for this? This is it. Write this down. Lenny.
He has his own identity.
No, sir. What is wrong with you?
David has spoken. Let David live.
He's related to Lenny Dykstra. First, you put Caleb out there in the same aura as Ryan Leaf. Now you're trying to get me.
Wow, you're holding on to that one.
To be fair, I mentioned Ryan Leaf, and it was not about Caleb Williams. It was a discussion about busts.
Was it about Caleb Wilson?
There was a discussion. Yeah, Peyton Manning versus Ryan Leaf was the discussion back in the day.
How dare you? you, sir.
Well, he was right to say no about Lenny.
Lenny.
In the meantime, it's fun to have fun with names, you know, in the words of Pat Hughes.
Hell yeah.
There are some big names in Iowa when you consider who's there right now. This is from Jason Kemp. The pitching staff for the Iowa Cubs continues to be reshaped on a daily basis. He's right about that. Drew Pomerantz pitched on Sunday, and today there are two more veteran arms in the house. Three-time All-Star Liam Hendricks, and we were all wondering when that was going to happen, and 10-year Major League reliever Aaron Bummer, as in the former White Sox, have joined the squad in Toledo. So we wondered if it was a matter of time before we would see these guys. And it turns out, yes, the time is a little bit longer. But I can't help but think, Marshall and Mark, that these guys are eventually going to get called back to the big leagues at some point.
Eventually. They're in AAA. They are. As we've seen the shuttle go from AAA to the major leagues and back again, they're a day away, depending on the wrong circumstances.
Don't jinx it. Or the right circumstances.
Don't jinx it. There's different ways in which a team right now can jump from the Iowa Cubs to the majors. Either they're really, really impressive in Iowa or someone simply is not impressive with the Cubs or just gets hurt.
The likelihood seems to be the latter.
But that's a reality that we're all having to process and deal with repeatedly this season. I think Ian Happ put it best. Ridiculous. It has become ridiculous. It's not unfathomable because I've seen it play out, but it is ridiculous what's going on with the Cubs and their injury situation.
Yeah, and maybe this is wrong because we keep thinking the bottom is going to drop out with all the starters that they've been through, with all the relievers, and depending on Ryan Rawlison and Bryce Wilson and all of these guys. Bryce with an S. That's right, Bryce with an S. Got to get that right. Important. That we keep waiting for, like I said, for things to get really, really, really bad, and now there's names that are coming that we actually know. Yeah, Aaron Bummer, who's 32. I just looked it up. I would have probably, because it feels like he's like a guy that's been around forever.
Because he had like 180 appearances for the White Sox in one season. And I thought he was going to be a star. And yeah, I know there's 162. That's the joke.
I thought he was going to be the next Andrew Miller. Cleveland Andrew Miller. Big lefty on the mound, getting guys out in the eighth.
And then he got traded for an absolute haul back from the Braves. Like that was a four-player return, as I recall.
Oh, man. I don't remember who the primaries were in that. Do you remember? To the internet.
To the internet. Yes, Aaron. Is there someone out of those three guys that you want up first between Hendricks, Bomber, and Pomerantz?
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