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Cubs bullpen coach Darren Holmes waited until Thursday morning to talk through Jack Neely’s debut with the towering right-hander.
“I’m glad that we got him in last night,” Holmes said in a conversation with the Sun-Times. “He threw 22 pitches, and I come in there today and I say, ‘Hey, how do you feel?’ He goes, ‘I’m good. I’m up. I want to be up.’ That tells me something.”
Neely took the mound in the ninth inning of the Cubs’ 8-2 loss to the Tigers.