Column: Red-hot Chicago Cubs feel no urgency to add a starter despite social media madness
ARLINGTON, Tex. — Do the Chicago Cubs need another starter? That’s one of the questions facing team President Jed Hoyer after Matthew Boyd’s left meniscus surgery, which followed the season-ending loss of Cade Horton and Justin Steele’s setback in his return from last year’s revision repair surgery on his left elbow.
It’s too early for trade rumors to start, but the San Francisco Giants dealt ...
ARLINGTON, Tex. — Do the Chicago Cubs need another starter? That’s one of the questions facing team President Jed Hoyer after Matthew Boyd’s left meniscus surgery , which followed the season-ending loss of Cade Horton and Justin Steele’s setback in his return from last year’s revision repair surgery on his left elbow.
It’s too early for trade rumors to start, but the San Francisco Giants dealt catcher Patrick Bailey to the Cleveland Guardians on Saturday, so pulling off a deal is not impossible. In this age of tweeting for tweet’s sake, rumors are bound to pop up, including an erroneous report Friday that the Cubs had talks with the New York Mets about Freddy Peralta, which was picked up on mlbtraderumors. com before the team quickly shot it down.
Column: Ordinary day in an extraordinary run for Chicago Cubs, who post their 2nd 10-game winning streak The report was retracted in a separate tweet, but that didn’t stop the internet, which never sleeps. It was picked up by aggregating websites focusing on Cubs news and discussed again Saturday on the team’s flagship radio station, WSCR-AM 670. Views of the original tweet and the retraction reached almost 600,000 as of Saturday night.
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