Brad Brach was well on his way to a very nice success story—a revitalized career with the team he grew up rooting for. At age 33, the reliever who had previously been a setup man in a playoff bullpen and an All Star in 2016 found himself unsigned well into the 2018-2019 offseason. He was finally picked up by the Cubs, but a disastrous campaign in Chicago followed that saw his walk rate soar and left him spending much of the first half of 2019 looking for answers as to why his results suddenly dropped off a cliff.
Brad Brach’s status for 2020 is unknown
