Because of the abridged spring training, pitchers are being held back and seeing their workloads limited.
But what about the hitters?
“For our group, I thought we got off to a great start,” Cubs manager Ross said. “Usually, the pitchers are ahead, I think you would say most spring trainings and then you get to the back end of spring training, the hitters start to catch up. I thought we started off, offensively, great.”
Indeed, the Cubs offense did get off to a hot start, scoring 19 runs in the first three games of the year.