The NL Central is the most interesting in Major League Baseball - A Hunt and Peck

Earlier Craig wrote about the Cardinals-Cubs rivalry being the best in baseball. There are three teams contending for the division crown and two in full-on rebuild mode. To quote Grant Brisbee:

To recap, here's what each team in the NL Central is doing:

• Rebuilding
• Really, really rebuilding
• Just kind of hanging out
• Signing Mike Leake
• Spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make an LCS team even better

Here is a hint: the last one is the Cubs.

The only teams that aren't scared of the Cubs are in the NL Central | SBNation.com

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what the cardinals are up to...

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KNOW THINE ENEMY...

the nl central

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