1. Cubs have strong starting pitching and offense, but the bullpen expected to be among the best ended up just over hyped and blows 15+ games over the season resulting in the cubs missing out in the wild card by 2 games. 2. CJ Edwards throws a no hitter in early May in the minors while the 5th starter is still kinda wishy washy, gets called up to go 8-2 with a 2.70 Era in his rookie season. 3. Cubs offense leads the majors in Home Runs, SLG, Strikeouts, and runners left in scoring position 4. Baez struggles immensely and hits AAA by June, afterwards he gets traded in a package at the deadline for a reliever and explodes in August and September in the bigs. The media draws comparisons to classic deal the cubs trade away powerhouse kids such as Lou Brock, Joe Carter, and Rafael Palmeiro 5. Bryant is good at 3b but the LF Platoon is terrible so Russell comes up to play 3rd moving Bryant to LF. 6. Solar has a historic first half of the season putting up a .330 Avg 22 HR by june. He tears his ACL during the all star weekend and out for the season