I don’t want to alarm you, but something very *VERY* unusual is happening on the North Side of Chicago.
Despite their season officially coming to an end after their loss to the Pirates at Wrigley Field on April 11, the Chicago Cubs are somehow still playing Major League Baseball games. In fact, they’re even WINNING some of these games. It’d be baffling, if it weren’t so concerning. According to the scientific community, this shouldn’t be possible. But, hey, that’s baseball in 2026. Must be AI or something.
Today, the Cubs even managed to win despite doing so many things we all KNOW don’t work by the laws of physics. For example, they let Jameson Taillon take the mound (he tossed 6.0 innings of one-run ball), Craig Counsell pinch-hit for Moises Ballesteros (Carson Kelly hit a pinch-hit, 3-run blast), and someone even gave Ian Happ directions to the ballpark (he homered off Freddy Peralta … okay, bits off, I didn’t actually see that one coming).
*bits back on*
If they don’t stop this unusual behavior soon, they’ll be in trouble of climbing back up the standings and making those FanGraphs playoff odds — the ones that swung WILDLY after … about 10 games — look silly. And we can’t have that.
In all seriousness, this team does have some issues to overcome, like the full-season loss of Cade Horton, the absolute ONSLAUGHT of other, more temporary injuries (Daniel Palencia, Matthew Boyd, Phil Maton, Hunter Harvey, Ethan Roberts, etc.), and the early offensive issues for Michael Busch and Pete Crow-Armstrong … but so many other things are going really well for them.
For example …
They’ve now won four games in a row, moving up to two games over .500 for the first time this season. They’ve scored 110 runs, more than all but the Braves (115), Angels (113), Nationals (112), Dodgers (112), and Astros (111). They’ve allowed only 81 runs, fewer than all but the Mariners (79), Pirates (77), Padres (77), Tigers (72), Rangers (70), Braves (62), and Dodgers (60). Combine those into run differential, and the Cubs (+29) are third-best in baseball, behind only the Braves and Dodgers. Their 22-year-old DH, Moises Ballesteros, literally (in the figurative sense) could not be hitting the ball any better: .381/.413/.619 (185 wRC+) Nico Hoerner is playing like a legitimate MVP candidate, and that is actually not hyperbole, this time. Ian Happ is tied for the 9th most homers in baseball (6), just two behind the leader, Aaron Judge (8). Shota Imanaga has never looked better in a Cubs uniform: 22.0 IP, 2.45 ERA, 37.8 K%. Jameson Taillon is still enough of a bulldog to routinely throw 100 pitches.And so on.
I mean, I can easily name about a dozen more encouraging stats/narratives about this team. Top of mind, they’re doing all this run scoring (and preventing) … (1) without arguably their three best on-paper starting pitchers, two of whom are expected back before too long, (2) while playing more games without Seiya Suzuki than with him, and (3) without Michael Busch or Pete Crow-Armstrong contributing much at all at the plate.
I know the start to the season was rough, and the injuries are even rougher. Those are/were both legitimate reasons for some concern. But this is a long season and, from where I stand, a good Cubs team. They just started cookin’. Let’s leave ’em to it.
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