Personal Review: The Chicago Cubs

I believe that you Chicago Cubs are doing very well. I hope after your loss in the National League Playoffs, you guys rebound, and make it to the World Series next year.

Baseball statistics are meant to be a representation of a player’s talent. Since baseball’s inception around the mid-19th century, statistics have been used to interpret the talent level of any given player, however, the statistics that have been traditionally used to define talent are often times misleading. At a fundamental level, baseball, like any game, is about winning. To win games, teams have to score runs; to score runs, players have to get on base any way they can. All the while, the pitcher and the defense are supposed to prevent runs from scoring. As simplistic as this view sounds, the statistics being used to evaluate individual players were extremely flawed. In an attempt to develop more

Donaldson hit a .297 avg, hit 41 hrs and 123 RBIs in his first season as a Toronto Blue Jay which lead to the nickname “Bringer of rain”. He was traded to the Jays in return for Canadian third baseman Brett Lawrie. He was an amazing addition to the team with his great skills at third base and his awesome batting skills. To repeat his remarkable season, Donaldson will need to work just as hard if not harder than he did last year and stay healthy. It is extremely hard to repeat the same stats from year to year especially when an injury could occur at anytime and sideline you. Donaldson maybe able to increase his stats by making pitchers walk him more. This would help score more runs as well as win more games. Will Donaldson go back to back as a MVP? Can he bring the rain once again this season?

After that second Philly loss, the Cubs were 84-60 and the Mets had pulled ahead at 85-57. The Mets would not look back. The Cubs' eight-game losing streak finally ended the next day in St. Louis, but the Mets were in the midst of a ten-game winning streak, and the Cubs, wilting from team fatigue, generally deteriorated in all phases of the game. The Mets would go on to win the World Series. The Cubs, despite a respectable 92-70 record, would be remembered for having lost a remarkable 17½ games in the standings to the Mets in the last quarter of the season.

The Chicago White Sox of 1919 were a clear favorite to win the World Series. They had all of the odds on their

been discussions on building a Chicago Cub’s Hall of Fame so that on off days

Did you hear about the Cubs winning the world series and how they ended a 108 year world series drought and broke the "Billy Goat Curse." The Chicago Cubs are A Major League Baseball team that is in the Central National Division. The Chicago Cubs are my favorite baseball team. Before you say this but no I am not a bandwagoner, I was a fan for like 5 years and back then they sucked. What I will be writing about is The History Of the Chicago Cubs and who has been apart of the Cubs and where they are at now.

Year after year more than a million cub fans make the trip to Wrigley Field on the north side of Chicago. Wrigley Field is known as the friendly confines by many baseball fans. Built in 1914, Wrigley Field is one of the most celebrated baseball stadiums in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. Several key factors have contributed in making Wrigley Field what it is today. Some of the key factors: the owners, the stadium features, the players, the broadcasters, the historical games, the fans, and community have all helped make Wrigley Field special.

However, that could not have been more false when the lost the first game 9-1. It was a humiliating defeat, but exactly what the players, and gamblers wanted to see. Game two did not fare any better for White Sox fans when their hometown boys lost 4-2. Game three gave hope when the Sox won 3-0 against the Reds to put the eight game series at 2 games to 1. The Sox went on to lose games four and five. However, even though the Sox were throwing the series, they were not getting paid. The gamblers had not honored their agreement. This sparked the White Sox, who in turn went back to their winning ways. The Sox humiliated the Reds by winning games six and seven in a no contest finish. The Sox were feeling good about the series when their actions began to harm them. The players started receiving threats from the gamblers that they would harm their families if they did not lose game eight. The 1919 White Sox lost game eight, giving the Reds their first World Series title in franchise history. The scandal however, did not end

The 1919 White Sox--the White Sox of Eddie Collins, Eddie Cicotte, Dickie Kerr, Ray Schalk, Buck Weaver and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson--are considered by baseball historians to be one of the greatest teams ever to take the field (Solomon). The “Black” Sox were the major favorites of the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. Chicago had the better pitching, the better hitting, and the better fielding, but they somehow lost. The “Black” Sox lost in eight games, back in 1919 the only playoff series they was the World series so they played a max of nine games. A few months after the Reds won the World Series, on December fifteenth, 1919, “The New York World published an explosive article by Hugh Fullerton suggesting the the World Series was fixed” (Linder).

Prior to 2016, the Chicago Cubs had been winless in the World Series since 1908. They had only reached the World Series once, in 1945, and came within five outs of it in 2003 in the famous Steve Bartman game. The Cubs’ first initiative in rebuilding the team was the hire of Theo Epstein. Epstein had previously been with the Red Sox, ending

For starters, the two teams had very different pitching. The 1908 Cubs pitching had a combined earned run average (ERA) of 2.14. An earned run average is an average of approximately how many earned runs you allow during a game; however, runs that scored of a committed error or a walked batter do not count towards the ERA. Therefore this stats shows that the 1908 team let the other teams score roughly two runs every game. The 2016 team had a combined ERA of 3.15; meaning that they let up an average of three runs a game, just one more than the 1908 team did. The 1908 Cubs team won twenty-five games by one run and tied twice. If their ERA was 3.15 then they would have tied twenty-five more games and lost two more maybe knocking them out of the playoffs. Another contrast of the two teams would be that the 1908 Cubs ace pitcher, or best pitcher, won twenty-nine games almost reaching the thirty-win mark, something that has not happened since the year 1968. The

What a decade for Cubs baseball, which is exactly what it was. In 1902, noting the youth movement lead by new manager frank selee, a local newspaper penned the nickname Cubs for the first time. The moniker prevailed over time and was officially adopted by the club in 1907. It is currently one of the longest running-and most beloved aliases in all of sports.When was their first World Series win?

For those who are unaware, the Chicago is a MLB(Major League Baseball) team from Chicago, Illinois. At first the were known as the White Stockings, but later changed in 1903 to the Cubs. They were successful at the start. They would win 6 of the 11 championship they played in. However, in 1907 Chicago won their first World Series. This would be their only World Series victory until 2016.The cubs would later become very unsuccessful until he early 2000’s.

From the grave I can hear Harry Carey saying ”Cubs win! Cubs win!” but the reality is that we will be saying “Maybe next year.” again. I have been an enormous Cubs fan since I was six years old. I attend two games every year, and I attempt to watch every game they play. This year they are one of the best teams in the MLB their record is 100-56, as of September 27, 2016, the Cubs seem like they are capable of winning the World Series. My desire is for the Cubs to win, however, I doubt they will be victorious. The Cubs will not win the world series because the stats are against them, the team is still inexperienced, and the superstitions get into the heads of the fans and players.