Doug Glanville talks Cubs & MLB (Hour 4)
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What are the latest storylines in Cubs and MLB?
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He might circle him.
He might circle him. Boots waving him on. Boots waving him on. It's an inside the park home run. Doug Glanville. An inside the parker, and the Phillies lead it 2-9.
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How have injuries impacted the Cubs' season so far?
A great way to introduce Doug Glanville, Major League Baseball analyst for ESPN, co-host of the Starkville podcast. He's an Emmy winning writer and he has a sub stack. Welcome to Glanville. It can be found at DougGlanville.substack.com. And Doug just celebrated his one year anniversary. He's a professor at UConn and I am proud to call him a former colleague. Doug, thank you so much for joining us today.
It's great to be on. And how are you doing? Everybody's well in Chicago?
We are good. Yeah. In fact, I think we've gotten to our first April in many years, Doug, since maybe you and I did baseball night in Chicago together, where the Sox and the Cubs after April are both still in good positions.
They are. They are.
What is Doug Glanville's perspective on the Cubs' trade deadline strategy?
They absolutely are. And it's a lot of fun. I think Chicago is going to have a big battle talking about the Crosstown series as they keep changing the name, of course, every year. But I love that rivalry. It's always been a lot of fun.
One can only hope, Doug. I'm really curious as to your thoughts, because as we get into the month of May, we've got teams out here who have either already fired their managers or are maybe looking to fire their manager. When you talk about what's going on in the National League East, what do you make of the early movement, especially with your old team, the Phillies, getting rid of their manager, a guy who led them to a World Series?
I mean, this is the day we're in in baseball 2026. I mean, there's just no time with teams that have put so much in terms of resources into these teams. They've expected to win today or yesterday in the Phillies case. And there's no question that once the investment structure of these teams that are built on you know, elaborate front offices that are very engaged in the day to day, the algorithms, the math, the analytics, the expectations very high to get off to a good start and to show signs that you're going to win a World Series. And the thing about the affiliates that's interesting is Rob Thompson was there in replacing Joe Girardi, which had a similar flavor a few years ago.
How does the rivalry between the Cubs and White Sox shape the season?
Girardi started off slowly as the Phillies manager, and Dave Dombrowski said, goodbye, that's it, we're making a move. So they're not afraid to pull the trigger and make changes early on. Same thing in Boston, of course, with Alex Cora, who signed a long-term contract And they felt that the results weren't there. So more and more of the front office have this influence certainly to make decisions and feel confident that they can put a lot of different personalities in place and still win ballgames. And it's made the managers a little bit more expendable. I'd probably say a lot more expendable in today's game.
Well, and Doug, I feel like also Marshall and I were talking about this. And one of the things I really appreciate about the work you do, being a professor at UConn, for example, or whether you're on with Starkville or on your sub stack is looking at baseball sociologically, looking at the bigger picture. And even with the Phillies. Nepotism is present here when you consider Don Mattingly's son is the GM under Dave Demorowski. And now Mattingly is part of that managerial discussion that you talk about named interim. You know, what do you think about just the prevalence of the nepotism in baseball? Maybe we don't talk about it as much because it's more of an understood part of the culture than we do in, say, football, where it's become an element of dissonance.
Well, you know, baseball certainly has that traditional sensibility around, you know, I guess historically to say fathers and sons, but it's like there's a family component.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the latest storylines in Cubs and MLB?
0:01–0:41
2
How have injuries impacted the Cubs' season so far?
0:41–1:27
3
What is Doug Glanville's perspective on the Cubs' trade deadline strategy?
1:27–2:48
4
How does the rivalry between the Cubs and White Sox shape the season?
2:48–4:17
5
What are the implications of managerial changes in MLB?
4:17–5:34
6
How does nepotism influence baseball management today?
5:34–6:36
7
What adjustments must Pete Crow-Armstrong make this season?
6:36–7:26
8
How does the proposed anti-tanking rule affect NBA teams?
7:26–32:22
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