For those of you who kept saying to Cubs management, “Do something!”, the Cubs absolutely did something Tuesday.
Two somethings, in fact, signing Cody Bellinger to a one-year deal (with a 2024 mutual option) and Jameson Taillon to a four-year contract (and thanks to Josh for covering that when news broke very late Tuesday evening).
Based on the poll results in those links as of this writing, both of those signings were very well received. There’s risk in the Bellinger signing, of course, because of his down years since 2019. My feeling is that a lot of the bad performance is injury-related and if Bellinger is healthy, he could put up good offensive numbers for the Cubs.