{"id":679334,"date":"2026-04-19T19:42:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679334\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:42:53","slug":"the-cubs-shouldnt-be-concerned-about-alex-bregmans-slow-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679334\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cubs Shouldn&#8217;t Be Concerned About Alex Bregman&#8217;s Slow Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/chicago_cubs\/6\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> made a serious win-now move during the offseason, signing third baseman Alex Bregman to a five-year, $175 million contract. <\/p>\n<p>This signing was meant to show the National League that the Cubs are ready to compete for a championship. That, unfortunately, hasn&#8217;t gone to plan thus far.<\/p>\n<p>After 20 games, the Cubs are just 11-9, and what was thought to be a weak NL Central has Chicago sitting at the bottom of the division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs made a serious win-now move during the offseason, signing third baseman Alex Bregman to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-679334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicagocubs","12":"tag-cubs","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116433086568432874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679334","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=679334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}