In between providing deft non-answers to questions about how the Cubs would address their poor play of late, Theo Epstein announced to McNeil & Parkins on 670 The Score Wednesday that Robel Garcia was being promoted. It was hard to make out some of the details, since the Cubs’ baseball boss was apparently calling in from his underground bunker while wearing a bucket on his head, but Epstein said the slugging utilityman offered the kind of spark the big-league team hasn’t shown.
No one could have seen this move coming at the beginning of the season, since the 26-year-old Garcia had spent the last several years playing in Europe.