After one week of the regular season, it seemed the Chicago Cubs bullpen couldn’t possibly get much worse.
The bullpen had already blown three games in the first two series against the Texas Rangers and the Atlanta Braves. Despite the Cubs scoring 10 runs in the series finale in Texas, the bullpen couldn’t close the deal. And in game two in Atlanta, an eighth-inning bullpen collapse eliminated any chance of a series win.
Something had to be done. Something was done. And since then, the bullpen has begun to turn the tides.
Before the Cubs’ second game against Milwaukee over the weekend, Carl Edwards Jr.