Has solid start changed your expectations for 2023 Cubs?

[Cubs2023]

The team is starting to get back to what I figured they would be - an improved but non-playoff squad. Some promising things, but also so close that it gets frustrating.

[Bertz]

With the outage this didn't get posted yesterday as far as I can tell, but ZiPS now sees the division as a four-way heat.  All the non-Reds are within two games of each other.

 

[UMFan83]

18 hours ago, Cubs2023 said:

The team is starting to get back to what I figured they would be - an improved but non-playoff squad. Some promising things, but also so close that it gets frustrating.

Not as good as they were going 11-6, not as bad as they are now going 4-8 in their last 12.  Considering we don't have our best 26 guys on the roster right now I'd say there is room for improvement.  The crappy thing is that their schedule coming up is so tough I'm worried about a tailspin that we can't recover from.  The goal should be to hang around enough so that we're talking deadline additions instead of deadline subtractions. 

[UMFan83]

Nope looks like 75-78 wins was right

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I think they've played enough games now that the peripherals should be telling us that they are better than their pre-season projections of mid-70s wins.

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

I think they've played enough games now that the peripherals should be telling us that they are better than their pre-season projections of mid-70s wins.

Especially once you factor in their terrible luck in sequencing.