Chicago Cubs: What’s the plan with Ian Happ moving forward?

In just about every one of my editorial pieces, I talk about the Cubs need for pitching and how they eventually need to make a move.

I can scream about it until I’m blue in the face or write about until I’m blue in the fingers… wait I don’t that’s a thing.  If you have blue fingers, go to the doctor immediately.

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Anyway, the point is I’m not so sure anything is going to happen before the trade deadline.  Eventually, something will happen where the Cubs trade for pitching.

Who’s going to be the guy or guys to go is unknown.  With Ian Happ playing this well so far this season, I don’t think the Cubs are going to let him go.

My plan would be pretty simple, you send Addison Russell and possibly even Kyle Schwarber for a guy like Sonny Gray or Chris Archer and then that frees up two key positions.

I would then rotate Baez over to short and I would put Almora Jr. in center, and then I would rotate Zobrist and Happ between left and second, getting Happ in the lineup more often than the aging Zobrist.

This would give you plenty of versatility and when the time comes, you could bring up a young prospect like an Eloy Jimenez.