Highest on base percentage and slugging in that stretch if you were looking for something less ‘nerdy’ but I get the sense I know where this is going and will just say that yes, clearly they don’t have the Clutch Gene or The Will To Win and there can be no recovery from those flaws.
Well thankfully there’s no ghost runner in October so no need to include this game in the otherwise normal ‘games since April 23rd against teams over .500’ sample.
The cubs since 5/15 have the most offensive fWAR in baseball. I don’t know what sample size we’re slicing and dicing in this argument but it’s probably fine.
The cubs are playing at a 100 win pace 40% of the way through the season while receiving, due to injuries, 0.3 fWAR from their top two starters.
understandably, people are very upset about this.
I think that if your expectations for three road series against the three best records in baseball are 4-5, if you were to add up all your 'expectations' based on the talent level of the opponent based off the expectaion of these series you'd end up with like 105 wins.
Despite what you’d believe browsing these threads, occasionally the cubs get lucky and the other team can’t get anything to fall (they’re beating us in xBA by like 55 points)