Joe Maddon has named Jon Lester as the Cubs Opening Day starter. It's Lester's third straight Opening Day start with the Cubs and his fourth in five years.
The rest of the starting rotation after Lester still hasn't be determined for the beginning of the regular season.
Jake Arrieta started Opening Day in 2016 after winning the NL Cy Young in 2015. The way the rotation is lined up in spring training so far has been Lester, Yu Darvish, Cole Hamels, Kyle Hendricks and Jose Quintana. Hamels threw a simulated game on Monday.
All righty, onto some other updates from spring training. Yu Darvish is throwing hard, is feeling great and is really confident in his stuff right now.
Besides Darvish looking great against the White Sox on Sunday, Kris Bryant hit another moonshot home run in Mesa. This gif is NSFW.
The Cubs also set an attendance record at Sloan Park on Sunday.
Nice. On Saturday, Joe Maddon's RespectBald campaign raised $44,000 for charity.
Back to the players. Cubs reliever Brandon Morrow is still taking small steps in his return to the Cubs. If everything goes well in the next couple weeks, Morrow should be on pace to throw his first bullpen session on March 25.
If everything goes well from that point, then Morrow should be on track to join the Cubs one month into the season. The Cubs signed all their pre-arbitration players.
In case you missed Tyler Chatwood's last outing, he was really good and didn't walk anyone! https://www.sportsmockery.com/2019/03/is-that-is-that-tyler-chatwood-looking-absolutely-filthy/ Oh and Carl Edwards Jr. made his spring training debut and we got to see his new delivery in game action for the first time too.
Big year for Carl and well, lots of guys on the Cubs.
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