20-3 seems like 5 years ago.
Chicago Cubs 2026
Illiniaaron
- Geneseo, IL
Hopefully a day off and a bad team coming to town can cure some ills.
There's an age-old adage in baseball:
If Ian Happ is hitting cleanup for your team, you've got a problem.
If Ian Happ is hitting cleanup for your team, you've got a problem.
Illiniaaron
- Geneseo, IL
Ouch. He seems to have two three to four week terrible slumps every season.
I don't even mean to slam Happ. It's the lack of a better alternative...or the manager.
He either gets really hot or really cold. There's no in between with him. You can put Seiya in the same category.
Bregman, Happ and Seiya as the 3, 4, 5 is what's killing the offense right now. The fact that Counsell hasn't split them up is just awful managing.
To date, both Seiya and Happ have over a 40% K rate with RISP. The amount of times that they get the first two guys on base in an inning and don't score(without the bad fortune of a double play) is insane. Pop up, K, K and the runners haven't moved.
Add Swanson and PCA being brutal, then not being able to hit the ball out of the ballpark...this is what you get.
The amount of runners that they've been leaving on is ridiculous.
Illiniaaron
- Geneseo, IL
But hey, PCA is on pace to have a higher WAR than last year, so there’s that.
Yes, their hitters will revert to their norm and pull out of the slump.
I'm worried about the pitching staff with all the injured pitchers that won't be back until later in the year or not at all.
With the warmer weather and wind blowing out we'll have a problem with our home run prone starters and a bunch of relievers we never heard of until this year.