As Blue Jays bullpen struggles, Nate Pearson helps the Cubs to a combined no-hitter

Not so long ago, I shared a video on X that showed Nate Pearson, who the Toronto Blue Jays traded to the Cubs at this year's trade deadline, struggling in one of his first few outings on his new team. I had a tongue-in-cheek caption attached to it and was essentially saying that the Jays aren't missing much from him.

I'm here to apologize for that, because I was wrong.

Since joining the Cubs, Pearson now has made 10 appearances with 15 strikeouts and just two walks in 16.1 innings of work. One of those innings came on Wednesday night when he helped Shota Imanaga and the Cubbies twirl a combined no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Pearson seems to be taking to his new club nicely, even if it didn't start off perfectly. That's why you wait a bit for the sample size to grow before running your mouth on social media.

Ex-Blue Jays hurler Nate Pearson part of combined no-hitter with Cubs

The sad fact of the matter is that the Blue Jays could use Pearson and his recent hot stretch in their bullpen. As we've pointed out time and time again, the current relief corps in Toronto is one of the worst in all of baseball and there's no end in sight.

Sure, Tommy Nance and Ryan Yarbrough have looked promising in some small sample sizes of their own, but there's still Erik Swanson, Zach Pop and Ryan Burr to worry about.

Pearson was given many chances to succeed in Toronto, but he eventually became a change-of-scenery candidate if there ever was one. He went from can't-miss prospect to a converted relief pitcher who couldn't hold down a job at the big league level. This is undoubtedly why the Blue Jays would even entertain moving him at the deadline in the first place, but the Cubs appear to have tapped into something that the Jays and their development staff could not.

Congratulations are also in order for Imanaga, who went seven innings with seven strikeouts and two walks in Wednesday's historic game. In the process, he lowered his ERA to 2.99 in his rookie season, which is not too shabby at all. Pearson took the eighth inning and fellow rookie Porter Hodge closed the door with a nine-pitch ninth inning.