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Welcome to the new iteration of Bleed Cubbie Blue. We’re still getting up to speed here so I will ask for your patience while all our regular features return to action. Hopefully that will happen within a day or two.

In the meantime, I wish I had better news for you with my first article in the new format (and it’s probably just as well that I wasn’t able to post a recap of Monday’s loss to the Reds). Unfortunately, this one is going to be about a bullpen meltdown, specifically that of new Cubs reliever Andrew Kittredge, who had pitched well in his first two outings with the team.

This one? Yikes. Five baserunners in a row before he got an out, and one of those batters, Spencer Steer, hit a three-run homer that ruined the game, which t

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