One month into his Chicago Cubs career, Yu Darvish doesn’t have a lot of positives to point to. After his latest clunker, a game that ended in an 11-2 loss, the team’s six-year, $126 million commitment to the right-hander has a good many people quite nervous.
Through six starts, he’s totaled just 30 innings of work. He has allowed five earned runs in four of those six outings and has looked like anything but a front-of-the-rotation ace. And, if I had to wager, someone is about to pay the price for these struggles.
And that someone is not Darvish himself.