Cubs have a major bullpen problem

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00:00They definitely have a bullpen problem. They're running into the same, you know, we talked about

00:06the series in Japan and how painful it was because it was like a continuation of last year without

00:12the clutch hitting. Well, that series against Arizona was a continuation of bullpen problems.

00:20How many guys are you going to walk in the bullpen? Too many. I mean, holy God. That's

00:24the answer. Too many. Too many is right. You know, Ryan Presley does not look good.

00:29Now it's really early and you don't get, you don't overreact to anything. But,

00:36but holy cow. I mean, talk to me. How many saves? No, I'm talking to myself out of it.

00:44How many, how many saves they blew last year? 26. 26. Yeah. That's that, that's the year. So

00:51you see that bullpen not, there's life has twofold problem. First problem, pitchers length.

01:00They don't go as long as they used to. It's a different deal. As a result, you got to have a

01:06bullpen. You got to have a group of guys. They, you never know on a year to year basis, how the

01:12bullpen is going to be. They've swapped out a lot of guys and maybe they seem worse if that's

01:17humanly possible, but they do not. They definitely, the takeaway from the second series

01:25of the season, and they've yet to win one, is that they got a bullpen issue.