For all the noise about the Cubs’ issues throughout the 2017 season, and there were real issues, the club finished with an offense approximately 73 runs better than Wrigley Field / 2017 National League. While this is quite a decline from the monstrous +103 RS the Cubs posted during their storybook 2016 campaign, there is […]
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Traveling Cubs Fans are Brutish Louts
Milwaukee is a very small baseball market, but as long as the product is halfway decent, Milwaukeeans show up to the the park in droves. They rank tenth in attendance this year, pulling in 31,161 fans per game, which is more than the contending Nationals and more than the New York Mets. On Thursday home […]
NL Central: Pythagorean Update
As Brewers fans and Cubs fans alike hail the coming inevitability, as the Cubs destroyed an easy stretch of their schedule as the Brewers face the surging Pirates, it’s important to take a look at the full context of the division. It is worth noting, of course, despite the bullpen’s inability to hold several leads […]