To call Yu Darvish’s regular season Chicago Cubs debut disappointing just about hits it on the head. The club’s $126 million offseason acquisition lasted just 4 1/3 innings, allowing five runs on five hits and a pair of walks.
For those of you doing the math at home, that equates to a 10.38 ERA and ghastly 6.79 FIP. But, as we’ve heard (and said) so many times in the past week, the season is young. What we’ve seen is likely far too small a sample size to mean anything other than the Cubs are off to a slow start in 2018.