How will this Cubs season end up?

[UMFan83]

i went with 2nd place, no playoffs. despite the recent success, i'm still not convinced they have enough to overtake the brewers and/or win the wildcard. the pitching has been great, but the pessimistic side of me doesn't expect marquis and/or marshall to maintain their success. additionally, if the cubs don't start hitting homeruns, they are going to have trouble scoring.

 

if they upgrade the offense, i'll like their chances a whole lot more.

 

I feel the same way. Except the offense as it is right now, should be much more powerful then it is. If the bloop singles and clutch hits stop falling, I would expect the power numbers to sharply rise. We have only hit 7 HRs this month, by far the lowest in baseball. The next lowest is the Nationals with 12. We have 5 players on this roster who have hit 27 HRs or more in a season, and 4 that have hit 34 or more in a season, and right now only 1 player is on pace for even 30 (Aramis)

[MPrior]

i went with 2nd place, no playoffs. despite the recent success, i'm still not convinced they have enough to overtake the brewers and/or win the wildcard. the pitching has been great, but the pessimistic side of me doesn't expect marquis and/or marshall to maintain their success. additionally, if the cubs don't start hitting homeruns, they are going to have trouble scoring.

 

if they upgrade the offense, i'll like their chances a whole lot more.

 

I feel the same way. Except the offense as it is right now, should be much more powerful then it is. If the bloop singles and clutch hits stop falling, I would expect the power numbers to sharply rise. We have only hit 7 HRs this month, by far the lowest in baseball. The next lowest is the Nationals with 12. We have 5 players on this roster who have hit 27 HRs or more in a season, and 4 that have hit 34 or more in a season, and right now only 1 player is on pace for even 30 (Aramis)

 

Yeah - I think we'll stop getting so lucky with seeing eye singles, to a degree, but we're also not going to be this awful at hitting homers for the rest of the season. I imagine our chances of making the playoffs - via division or wildcard - are better than 50%, but not by much.