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Chicago Cubs: Strop is one of the most underrated relievers in the game

Hats to the left. That is what everyone says when Pedro Strop comes to the mound for the Chicago Cubs. Despite what fans might say and think, Strop has enjoyed a pretty solid Cubs career.

We all know how he got here.

In what is now a very lopsided trade, the Cubs acquired Pedro Strop and 2015 Cy Young winner Jake Arrieta from the Baltimore Orioles in 2013 for Scott Feldman and Steve Clevenger. Like Arrieta, Strop needed a change of scenery. After strong 2012 campaign (2.