Let’s get this out of the way first thing.
The signing of Tyler Chatwood by the Cubs this past offseason has been nothing short of a disaster. It’s even worse than the Cubs’ signing of Edwin Jackson before the 2013 season, a signing that Theo Epstein later admitted was a mistake, especially because right at this very moment, the Cubs would be better off with the 2018 version of Jackson than they are with Chatwood. (And seriously, how on Earth did that happen? E-Jax has made eight good-to-excellent starts for the Athletics, four years after he had what’s probably the worst season ever for a Cubs starting pitcher.