Sometime on Friday afternoon Theo Epstein will be officially crowned as the last hope for a franchise reeling in the outer limits of irrelevance. The Cubs are betting $20 million that Epstein, the new general manager, can fix them in the next five years. It’s a smart wager. The man who ended the Yankees’ reign as the AL East’s best team in the mid-2000s is about to launch a pre-emptive strike at the heart of the Cardinals’ empire.
If Epstein has his way, Albert Pujols just might end up at Wrigley, a move that makes sense on so many levels.
Pujols is (or was) the game’s greatest right-handed slugger. Putting him in the middle of the Cubs’ lineup would satisfy two agendas: the Cubs, who were eighth in the league in runs scored in 2011, would become an upper-tier threat. And the Cardinals, who still think they’re hurtling toward a world championship despite a 2-1 loss the Rangers on Thursday night, would lose an irreplaceable weapon.
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