[Passan] The Chicago Cubs are hiring Tyler Zombro as a special assistant, sources tell ESPN. Zombro, 30, has become one of baseball’s preeminent pitching trainers at Tread Athletics, and he’ll work in all areas of Chicago’s organization to help improve the performance of the Cubs’ arms.

17 comments

1. Interesting…what role will Chili Davis play?

2. Hell yeah, love this move

3. I thought that said “Zombrano” lol

4. porter hodge insane closer season incoming

5. There’s our big acquisition of the offseason

6. I thought Carlos was back. lol

7. Another dude to maximize velocity and spin rate while blowing out dudes elbows.

8. This is kind of a big deal. The Cubs pitch-lab is churning out talented arms. Taking them to the next level to is going to be huge for the next steps of the farm system.

   It would get amazing to see homegrown TOR coming through year after year.

9. This is Zombro com

10. I like this. This is good. Go Cubs.

11. Get the lab up and running!

12. if zombro starts your in trouble

13. This is something the Dodgers already have in place, or something like it and people are shitting on it lol. That’s cub I guess.

14. Woof woof

15. Great add for potential long term sustainability of our pitching lab.

16. Jed got his man. Off-season over!

17. I heard this guy has ties to Sasaki…

    (I heard no such thing but this is copium season, people)