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The Chicago Cubs have looked like one of the best teams in baseball, firing on all cylinders. Cubs pitchers rank No. 10 in ...
Pete Crow-Armstrong has made six outs in center field with a catch probability between 0% and 25%, while no other player in ...
Through Tuesday, the Cubs' defense had saved 82 runs more than the average NL team. Second was the Giants at 60 before it dropped all the way down to the Dodgers at 39. We can do better than that ...
Coming off a team Gold Glove Award last season, it isn’t unreasonable to expect the Chicago Cubs to again feature another strong defensive unit. The Cubs returned almost their entire starting ...
151; -- CHICAGO -- The Chicago Cubs have the best defense in baseball. It might be the best team defense we've seen in some time -- quite some time. Historically, so much of defensive evaluation ...
Best Defensive Infielder ... average in counts when he had two strikes while Baez had a .230 BA. No other Cubs player with a minimum of 100 at-bats posted a two-strike average above ...
He gives the Cubs a great defensive player off the bench. He can play all three outfield spots, with most of his playing time coming in center the last four years, and he has recorded at least 0.5 ...
Last season, the Cubs improved by five runs, to 43 defensive runs saved, good enough to be ninth in baseball. The problem was, the team that beat them in the NL Central, the Brewers, had 116.
One of baseball's best run-scoring teams, the Cubs won three out of four this weekend, doing so while scoring only nine runs ...
Coming into the season, the Cubs weren’t in denial ... “We gotta play a little bit cleaner defense and help Jamo out.” Ross knows what this team is and that its recipe for success relies ...
Adjusted for era, it might be the greatest defensive season ever, with the gap between the Cubs and the second-best team this year topping the spread between the next best and the 27th best.