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With Spring Training games a week away and Opening Day only a month from then, it seems as perfect a time as any to start speculating on the squad the Chicago Cubs will send out there behind Kyle Hendricks on Opening Day. Sure, most of the country is mired in the snow and cold weather, but it’s comfortable and 70 degrees in Mesa, AZ today, so let’s play ball.
While much ado has been made of the Cubs’ offseason this winter, the club that runs out onto Wrigley Field on April 1 might not be all that different than the one that you saw in the shortened 2020 season this summer and fall.