I hope all the Fathers out there had a good Sunday, closing windows and turning off lights and watching WW2 documentaries …
The unscheduled off-day gave the Cubs a little extra time to reset after Saturday’s nightmare of a loss. That’s good, I suppose, though the downside is that the Cubs didn’t get a chance to wash it away by securing a series win. Now they get a four-gamer against the Mets, who reached a season-low 11 games below .500 about a month ago, but have played a bit above .500 since. They are probably not quite as terrible as what they showed last time around, when the Cubs helped the Mets on their way to a 11-game losing streak. The Cubs, for their part, have since had their own 10-game losing streak, and probably aren’t quite as good as what they showed last time around. The Cubs will send Shota Imanaga to the mound tonight, after he was supposed to go yesterday. Edward Cabrera and Javier Assad will take the next two starts, with Thursday’s starter still TBA. It lines up to be Ben Brown if the rotation held, but would also be normal rest for Matthew Boyd, who made a successful rehab start on Saturday with South Bend. The Cubs could be saving Brown for Milwaukee the next day, which feels a little too cute given the distance in the division (the Cubs trail the Brewers by 7.0 games), but could also just be about limiting Brown’s innings where possible. Random name to keep an eye on as the Cubs scramble to get more pitching: Bryse Wilson is being DFA’d by the Phillies, who brought the 28-year-old up from the minors for a two-inning bit of coverage (he had an upward-mobility clause and they didn’t want to lose him at that moment). He hasn’t had a great last few years, but his most recent success came with the Brewers when Craig Counsell was still the manager there. Before that, he wasn’t quite able to put it together with the Pirates, after coming up as a name prospect with the Braves. He’s a swing guy, but again, that best season a few years ago with the Brewers, he was strictly a reliever – often a multi-inning type. Wonder if the Cubs might consider going that route, a la Aaron Civale last year. I read this as “drilled in the balls more often,” which, it turns out, is also true:Many catchers have abandoned the crouch in favor of one knee down, and they are getting drilled by balls more often t.co/df99FSHi5X
— Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) June 21, 2026 The whole thing is a reminder of just how much punishment catchers take behind the plate and just have to keep on showing up for more (they don’t call catcher gear “the tools of ignorance” for nothing). It’s also a reminder why you can’t bank on catchers to put up big offensive numbers all season-long, because they are almost certainly playing through a number of dings at all times. Kelly’s .282/.362/.390/116 wRC+ slash line, as well as Miguel Amaya’s .225/.358/.363/111 wRC+, are all the more impressive for it. Cubs might have to call up Yosver Zulueta for the karate moves alone:Yosver Zulueta with some flair ✨ pic.twitter.com/WNAWgeeWWd
— Iowa Cubs (@IowaCubs) June 21, 2026 Christopher Morel dealt with an oblique injury to kick off his tenure with the Marlins, and then when he returned, he hit an abysmal .162/.219/.206/18 wRC+ with a strikeout rate near 40%. The sample is tiny (73 PAs) and the playing time was sufficiently sporadic that you could imagine him having had a tough time getting his feet under him. But it’s hard to blame the Marlins for moving on, which they did this weekend with a DFA. Morel’s salary this year is just $2 million, but I think there’s a decent chance he still clears waivers and is outrighted to Triple-A. He’s in that service time window where he will be able to choose free agency OR keep his contract (and if he clears waivers, then it means no team wanted him at his current contract, so he’d be wise to accept). Assuming, then, that he heads to Triple-A with the Marlins, hopefully he rakes and gets himself another opportunity somewhere, one way or another. He’s only 26, and he is delightful.There are few players in baseball who, when things are going well, generate as much enjoyment for those around them as Christopher Morel. All you can do is wish for him to figure it out enough to have a chance to create more moments like this: pic.twitter.com/Xoeg2UTdKR
— Brett Taylor (@Brett_A_Taylor) June 21, 2026 Whether you want pulled or not (I get that part, these guys are competitive), this is bonkers on-field behavior:Rafael Devers didn't want to be removed for a pinch runner after a leadoff walk to start the ninth pic.twitter.com/PR3DCOFd3M
— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) June 21, 2026 Kyle Tucker’s season continues to be a relatively rough go:The highest paid player in MLB history hitting 7th is genuinely hilarious. It’s not even “the Dodgers are so good that the highest paid player in MLB history is hitting 7th”. He’s hitting behind Tommy Edman and Miguel Rojas! t.co/H0CdqXb86V
— Ryan (@pladinosaur) June 21, 2026 Tucker is currently hitting .234/.331/.374/100 wRC+ on the season, is more or less earning that slash line with the underlying metrics, is a negative value on defense, and has been worth less than half the WAR of Alex Bregman this year (which feels like it’s saying A LOT). Speaking of recent signings who’ve been terrible, Zac Gallen has been even worse this year than I think people feared was possible: 6.10 ERA (7.76 since the start of May), 4.98 FIP, 14.3%(!!!) strikeout rate. It appears the market knew that the trend lines through last season were legit (and bad). Amazing catch, but also painful:COLBY THOMAS CATCH OF THE YEAR CANDIDATE! pic.twitter.com/68AI95ZNIw
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