Time to see what we're made of...

The Arizona Diamondbacks, bringing with them baseball's best record (23-12), come to Wrigley for a three-game weekend series.

Couple interesting things to note:

* There's some good and some bad in the pitching match-ups...

The good: The Cubs will miss Brandon Webb (now 8-0 after Thursday's complete game). And they will get to face Randy Johnson (how times have changed that you're now happy to see Johnson's ornery face on the hill), who barely reaches 85 MPH on his fastball these days and doesn't have that nasty slider anymore.

The bad: Chicago has to face Dan Haren, who is baseball's best unheralded pitcher, on Friday. Then they get rookie phenom Max Scherzer on Saturday. Scherzer became the apple of every fantasy owner's eye after retiring 13-of-13 batters in his professional debut. He then lost his first ever start (to the Phillies), but is still super talented with some wicked stuff.

* Don't you just hate it when former Cubs (especially pitchers) end up finding their stuff after they leave Chicago? Burned me up when Todd Wellemeyer pitched well on Sunday. And Juan Cruz has found a home in the desert. He's not among the elite in Arizona's bullpen (they tend to keep him out of the 7th, 8th, or 9th innings in games they're winning), but he has become serviceable (after being a fairly consistent train wreck with the Cubs).

* If there's an achilles heal on the D-Backs' ballclub, it's their defense. They're in the bottom third of major league baseball in fielding percentage and errors. Sadly, they're joined by the Cubs down there.