Look, there’s no reason to sugar-coat this: Craig Kimbrel was a big disappointment this season. You can justify his performance however you like, but the fact of the matter is that one of the game’s all-time great closers was part of the reason the Cubs fell off a cliff down the stretch. Kimbrel’s inability to keep the ball in the yard cost his team games and weakened the shaky bullpen his mid-season addition was supposed to solidify.
Some believe that Dirty Craig is washed up and will be equally as unreliable over the next two years of his contract.