Cubs’ Hayden Wesneski on open rotation spot: ‘I’m trying to earn it’

Cubs rookie Hayden Wesneski posted a 2.18 ERA in his first six major-league games last year. File photo. (AP Photos)

MESA, Ariz. — Cubs rookie Hayden Wesneski was expecting the conversation when manager David Ross told him he was in the running for the fifth spot in the rotation coming out of spring training.

“We’re deep, we throw well,” Wesneski said Sunday. “And so I figured that the five-spot was up in the air, and I’m trying to earn it.”