I’ve usually reserved these pieces for days when Mike Canter isn’t around to do his normal morning Rundown, but there were a few brief comments I wanted to make or external posts I wanted to highlight.
Gimmy Gimmy nah
A lot of people were caught off-guard by the Cubs’ decision to roster Victor Caratini instead of Chris Gimenez, which was mandated by the previous decision to carry eight relievers. And from what Gordon Wittenmyer wrote in the Sun-Times, Gimenez was one of the people surprised by the move.
“I still think I match up very well with what I need,” Gimenez told Wittenmyer.