Hopefully Dansby Swanson is Hurt

Otherwise, there’s no real good excuse for Dansby Swanson’s awful defense so far in 2024. It’s mainly been throwing issues and I’d give him a pass if it was only a few bad games, but we’ve been seeing Swanson barely getting the ball over to first base too many times in 2024 and on Tuesday night it cost the Cubs big.

In a 1-1 game in the bottom of the sixth inning, J.D. Martinez hit a ground ball to short and Swanson fielded it cleanly, but then unleashed a two-seamer to first base. Now...