Do you remember those moments between roughly 2:55pm and 3:02pm CT when it looked like the Cubs weren’t going to add a bat at the trade deadline? As the trade deadline came and went, it appeared briefly as though the only real offense the team had added was via an “internal trade” with the call-up of Ian Happ.
Even though there was reason to believe Happ alone would provide a boost, it still felt like we were in store for some disappointing spin. That line became considerably easy to swallow when we learned that the team had indeed acquired Nicholas Castellanos from the Tigers.