feels like the cubs' offensive ceiling today is two (2) fly balls to medium deep left field (NOT the warning track) that only make it that far because of sanchez' velocity.
gotta say, i have not enjoyed the cubs late 2018-2020 offensive strategy of taking a bunch of pitches down the middle, striking out a ton and flying out to the first part of the warning track.
once the cubs clinch, don’t we want the cardinals to then start winning to lock in the 5 seed, which would guarantee the cubs playing the marlins? *assuming we want to play the marlins vs the reds/cardinals.
yeah, it doesn't really apply this season since every hitter sucks, but last year it seemed like you could have replaced every cubs hitter with an objectively worse statistical hitter and the team would have somehow scored more runs.