Assessing the Chicago Cubs: Favorites with New Lineup Changes

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00:00Let's focus on the Cubs here coming into it because they are

00:02the favorites here Tom at a plus 100 price.

00:05I don't look at that lineup and get so excited here.

00:07You lose Bellinger, but of course, you're getting Kyle

00:09Tucker in the lineup, which I do think is a better move.

00:1123 home runs last year and a 289.

00:13It's a solid lineup all the way through and also understand

00:16this like we're doing a preseason.

00:18Look at the 0-2 Chicago Cubs, but a lot of teams are going

00:21to lose at least two out of three games or two game series

00:24against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

00:26The pitching staff, Ivanaga, Steele, Tyone, Boyd, and Ray.

00:29You look at it, not bad numbers last year, 291 ERA, a couple

00:33of threes and a couple of twos there.

00:34They can hold up.

00:35It's always tough in the friendly confines, but it is

00:37a solid team overall for the Cubs, but I agree.

00:40I look at the lineup and outside of maybe a couple fly balls

00:43or a couple long balls.

00:44It's not my day-to-day first pick to say, hey Donny, who's

00:48in that Cubs lineup today?

00:50Yeah, I think Matt Shaw, one of their upcoming prospects,

00:53maybe the most interesting, Pete Crow Armstrong, one of

00:55their young players as well.

00:56Like that's where we're going to get excitement because

00:58if those players develop and we already have Happ and Tucker

01:02and you know, Swanson and Suzuki, like now we can start

01:04to put together an offense that like is going to be threatening

01:07on a day-to-day basis.

01:08Obviously, Ivanaga and Steele are two phenomenal pitchers.

01:11So that's where we can be looking from in terms of strikeout

01:13props, especially when it's cold at the beginning of the

01:15season in Chicago.

01:16We got the wind blowing in at Wrigley.

01:18We're going to see some understate so we can look for some

01:20value at times for the Cubs, but they're young players stepping

01:23up. That's what I think is going to help shape their season.