Do Cubs Have Enough Starting Pitching To Reach .500?

The Cubs have been wise to stock pile starting pitching this offseason.

It only makes sense–winning baseball survives on good starting pitching–and the Cubs are clearly thin throughout its rotation.

What Epstein & Co. are playing this winter is a numbers game through free agent signings and trades–a roll of the dice on helter-skelter hurlers who may, or may not, return to their past successes on the mound.

We know it’s not the ideal way to staff a rotation, or the way Epstein and Hoyer will fill the void down the road.

But for the time being, it’s the most practical and affordable way to help mask the development of the Cubs’ soon-to-be youthful and inexperienced lineup.

Obviously, there’s no guarantee the newest additions of Travis Wood, Andy Sonnastine, Chris Volstad and now, Paul Maholm, will pan out.

In fact, it’s more than likely most of them won’t. But let’s say two of them do surprise us. Then what would happen?

Wrigley Field’s New Scoreboard

A ‘Group Patio’ in right field and a new 75-foot LED scoreboard? This is what Cubs fans want at Wrigley Field? According to Cubs chairman, Tom Ricketts, the answer is yes.

C’mon, Tom.

Since when did Cubs fans decide the charm of the ol’ ballyard wasn’t up to snuff, that a giant video board was a missing piece, that the right field bleachers were clearly lacking corporate advertising?

I’m curious to know ‘Who are these Cubs fans’…and what else will they ask for–fireworks after a Cubbie home run, a children’s playground in the left field bleachers…a new ballpark in the suburbs?

This is either a severe case of the Cubs miscounting hanging chads, or we’re getting fed a serious line of phony boloney.