Throughout his nine-year career, Craig Kimbrel has been one of the premier closers in the game. During the long and uneventful offseason for the Chicago Cubs, many fans were left perplexed at the team’s lack of pursuit for Kimbrel. Now, it appears the dynamic has changed. With Ben Zobrist leaving the team due to a personal matter, the Cubs have extra money to spend and have positioned themselves as a front-runner to land Kimbrel.
While Kimbrel would provide the Cubs with a true closer to anchor their otherwise inconsistent bullpen, they would still have work to do to be better positioned for a long run in October.