00:00Absolutely devastating news for that young man and for the Chicago Cubs season aspirations.
00:07Guy was in line to become the ace of that team and was amazing in the second half last year,
00:15was great in his first start through 17 pitches in the second start,
00:20and his elbow is going to get operated on.
00:25And the Cubs' World Series dreams take a massive hit with today's news.
00:30It does, and now we have to see how they react to that,
00:33and if that means that they might be more proactive.
00:37And I remember last year when we started talking about, after Justin Steele got hurt,
00:41the idea of them being proactive where Jed's feelings were,
00:45well, we don't want to jump the market, and I say if you have dreams of being a World Series
00:53team,
00:53you have to be, you have to get creative sometimes when it comes to a guy that you were expecting
01:00to make,
01:01let's call it 26 starts for you.
01:04To replace that is not easy, especially when Matthew Boyd is also on the I.L.
01:09Yep, Javier Asad is here.
01:11Colin Ray will be in the rotation.
01:13Ben Brown is an option.
01:16Jackson Wiggins should be treated like their version of Trey Ysavage,
01:22the Blue Jays kid who climbed through the ranks.
01:25As soon as you think he's ready to help you, he ought to be a real consideration.
01:31And I don't know exactly when that's going to be.
01:33Maybe it's not going to be until later in the summer,
01:35but get ready for the name Jackson Wiggins as part of your rotation thoughts,
01:39and maybe they'll have to make a trade too.
01:41Not sure that you wanted to be in a position to have to count on Shota Imanaga this way.
01:49But now you're counting on him.
01:51Guess it's good you got him.
01:52It's good you got him, even at 22 mil.
01:55Need that man right now.
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