This is a weird feeling. Not the Cubs being bad. No, that’s the natural order. Completely normal. No, what’s weird is... how unfamiliar I am with the Cubs’ roster. I feel like we’re facing an American League team. I’m relatively knowledgeable about rosters, so I’m never completely blind, but for bad AL teams, there’s usually a starting position player or two who I’ve never heard of, definitely at least one starting pitcher, and there’s like four guys in the bullpen who I have heard of but had no idea they signed there.
According to Roster Resource on Fangraphs, the Cubs currently have two players in their starting lineup who I have quite literally never heard of.