Not long after they’d announced that Spencer Patton was re-joining the club, prompting me to proclaim them done making moves, the Cubs acquired right reliever Joe Smith from the Angels. The move is roughly as interesting as the guy’s name, another meh middle reliever on a team that claims a few of those already.
To echo what I wrote in the rumor piece earlier, the 32-year-old free-agent-to-be has a funky delivery that’s lower than sidearm and higher than submarine and makes it look like he’s throwing from way over by third base. He’s strictly a reliever who’s only started a single game in his professional career, and that was a rehab stint in A-ball earlier this season.