Starting Tuesday, the Cubs brand-new rotation order will go Jon Lester, Kyle Hendricks, Yu Darvish, Tyler Chatwood, Alec Mills.
This sets Hendricks and Lester– the two Game 7 men– versus the Indians in Cleveland this week (thats fun), while setting up Darvish, Chatwood, Mills, and Lester again against Milwaukee next weekend.
Prior to the Cubs-Cardinals video game was held off because of extra positive tests of COVID-19, the rotation was set to continue as regular, with Jon Lester, Alec Mills, and Kyle Hendricks arranged to begin before the off-day, Monday. But with a chance, however unfortunate, to switch up the order, the Cubs have actually made some changes.
Among the advantages of this new positioning, youll discover that the Cubs have actually broken up the back-to-back of Mills and Hendricks, two pitchers with an extremely comparable appearance and game-plan, along with making sure that Yu Darvish will get Milwaukee, whom hes managed well, while Kyle Hendricks will not (theyve really gotten to him over the last 3 years: 4.18 ERA versus MIL in 2017, 3.91 in 2018, 4.00 in 2019). By contrast, this setup forces Hendricks to pitch on the roadway, not at house, where his numbers have actually been far much better. Theres also the reality that the Brewers have actually been rather a bit much better versus lefties (95 wRC+) than righties (75 wRC+) this season, though theyll get Lester instead of Hendricks, by way of who got the very first video game back.
