00:00Cubs pitcher Matthew Boyd to have surgery after a left meniscus injury
00:06per Craig Council timetable unknown right now.
00:12So this is a guy who just has not been able to get it going this year, J.P. Marossi.
00:18Yeah, very, very difficult news.
00:21And obviously Matthew was, we saw him pitch in the World Baseball Classic.
00:24He was, I remember just hearing from him at that point how thrilled he was for that opportunity.
00:28But you're right, since then it just has not gone well for Matthew Boyd.
00:32And really it underscores what we just talked about earlier,
00:35whether it was the Horton injury, the steel injury, now this with Boyd.
00:39The Cubs are a really, really good team, maybe even in times a great team,
00:43but they have a clear need for starting pitching.
00:46That was the case when our conversation started.
00:48And then when this news was dropped into it, it obviously accentuates that need even more.
00:55Obviously my heart breaks for Matthew, such a great guy.
00:57But I think it's pretty apparent now that they're going to have to make a meaningful upgrade
01:03at the deadline or even before that potentially if they want to keep this momentum going.
01:07Man, we're going to need you to add to that list of potential partners
01:11for the Chicago Cubs and starting pitchers, Russ Dorsey.
01:15Look, that's three-fifths of the Cubs rotation as we sit.
01:19And to what we talked about with J.P., when we started,
01:22you look around Major League Baseball right now,
01:25the Atlanta Braves are in that conversation too.
01:27The Houston Astros have been in that conversation as well.
01:29It's hard to keep pitchers healthy in Major League Baseball right now.
01:34And it's a conversation that I seem to have with people in baseball all the time.
01:38I know J.P. does as well.
01:40You ask people how to keep pitchers healthy right now, and it's a big shrug, J.P.
01:45It's a shrug because I always say this, Russ, that you look back and the Dodgers,
01:50I think it was the Dodgers of 24 when they won the World Series,
01:53so in their series against the Yankees.
01:54Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that year they used something like 16 different starting pitchers
01:59in the regular season.
02:00I think the number was 16.
02:02And so if the Dodgers, who have all the money, all the research and development,
02:08all the brainpower, all the everything, if they can't figure it out, nobody can figure it out.
02:14All right.
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