If you’re like me, you don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the exact reasons why the Cubs won the World Series. It’s strange, because if they hadn’t we would have spent all winter tearing apart every little mythological sinew and fiber looking for what went wrong, all the way down to what they ate […]
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The Workaround: How the Cubs Keep Their Pitchers Healthy (Maybe)
The Cubs are off to a blistering start in 2016, not only winning at an historic clip, but doing it convincingly, with an unprecedented run differential and even better peripheral indicators of team quality. Last season was a different story. Though those Cubs eventually won 97 games, one of the key narratives surrounding them—and one […]