{"id":343,"date":"2025-04-26T04:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T04:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/343\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T04:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T04:03:16","slug":"the-glaring-needs-of-every-contending-mlb-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/343\/","title":{"rendered":"The glaring needs of every contending MLB team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There aren\u2019t perfect teams, certainly at least not until those superteam Dodgers get much, much healthier.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise that imperfections in the lower 29 clubs are surfacing. While it\u2019s almost surely too early for any significant trades, worries don\u2019t wait for the calendar. <\/p>\n<p>Here are contending teams and their obvious needs:<\/p>\n<p>1. Cubs<\/p>\n<p>Their offense is special (they lead in almost every significant category despite playing 20 of 26 games against the powerhouse Dodgers, Padres and Diamondbacks) and their rotation is still pretty solid even with Justin Steele done for the season. But that relief corps \u2026 oy. \u201cThey better get their bullpen straightened out,\u201d warns a rival scout of the group with a 5.17 ERA. Another scout suggests one more starter might be nice, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There aren\u2019t perfect teams, certainly at least not until those superteam Dodgers get much, much healthier. It\u2019s no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,24,57,4,61,429,62,185,430,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago-cubs","10":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-new-york-rangers","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}