Imagine if the Cubs had landed Brian Roberts. On second thought, forget it. They don't need him.
Turns out their one big free-agent acquisition, Kosuke Fukudome, was the key to their lineup flaws all along, if this 20-game sprint out of the gate means anything -- in particular the sweep of the New York Mets the last two days.
The insertion of the lefty-hitting on-base machine into the middle of the lineup looks like the single biggest difference in the Cubs' ability to do this April what they could not most of last season: get on base a lot, get into pitchers' heads and pitch counts and get on rolls like the one they're on now.
They reached base 22 times on hits …
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