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Bryant’s Early Dominance, Báez’s Lapse, Davis Gets Hit, Tepera’s Cutter, and Other Cubs Bullets The Cubs and Brewers are never not playing. You thought the Cubs played some other team this week? No. Wrong. It was the Brewers. Always the Brewers. No wonder they have gotten chippy. Brewers again this afternoon. •   After another successful night at the plate, Kris Bryant’s slash line is up to .283/.380/.617. His 165 wRC+ is 20th in baseball, and his 0.9 WAR is 9th. A healthy Kris Bryant is still really damn good. Who knew, right? ( Random fun fact: just one player ahead of Bryant, ...

This was originally a big chunk of this morning’s would-have-been Cubs Bullets, but the database meltdown robbed us of that post. So now it’s some light, in-game reading for you … It was great to see Joc Pederson get his first hit of the year – a no-doubt homer – and celebrate it accordingly yesterday, because *of course* it starts to get into your head a little bit. Now we can put that to bed, and just observe as he hopefully gets himself into a rhythm. Ironically, it seems his scorching spring may have kinda hurt him in that regard (The Athletic):

I’ll have the normal Cubs Bullets later this morning, but I have so many bits to run through that are about the big trade that I figured I should put those in their own place. If you missed the news, the Cubs are trading Yu Darvish and Victor Caratini to the Padres for four very young prospects and Zach Davies. It is less shocking that the Cubs are trading Darvish at this point, but far more shocking that the focus of the return was so high-risk, long-term. I suppose an easy enough answer is that the Cubs decided they absolutely, unequivocally had to dump significant salary, and that was th...