I’m rooting for Jake Fox to have a big series against the Detroit Tigers for several reasons, the main one is that he is on the Cubs and him being extremely good in the series. More than likely it means the Cubs win it and answer a lot of questions about themselves.

The other reason is that I desperately want the Cubs to trade him and get optimal value for him while the proverbial iron is hot. Listen, Jake Fox is a commodity, a highly valuable one that can help the Cubs more in a trade than he can riding the pine and coming up with the occasional pinch hit. Lou hates pitchers, and he knows he needs another one. Jake Fox is a DH and, as I previously wrote, David Aardsma or Andrew Bailey, or someone might be dealt at the deadline, and the Cubs would benefit from moving guys that can’t play in the field for ‘pen arms.

This Cubs team isn’t being primed for an extended run, it isn’t being built from within the farm system, it isn’t going to be very good, very young, or very contract-friendly for much beyond this year. It’s built to win now, and the window might be tighter than Cubs fans want to believe.

The moves are obvious, and they should be to Jim Hendry. This team needs ‘pen help, and if it doesn’t get it and Marmol continues to suck, they ain’t winning anything this year.

And then this team will be old and bad, and by then it will be far too late. Win now, make the moves now.