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Half-lives of Cubs championship teams By JohnW53 on Jan 31, 2021, 7:04am CST 4 45 players: 20 position players and 25 pitchers. If the 2021 season began today, only 6 of those 45 still would be a Cub: Javier Baez, Kris Bryant, Willson Contreras, Jason Heyward, Anthony Rizzo -- and Kyle Hendricks, the lone remaining pitcher. Remarkably, 2016 was the final season with the Cubs for 21 of those 45 players: 7 position players and 14 pitchers. The position players who did not return in ...

More Cubs vs. American League pitchers By JohnW53 on Jan 29, 2021, 6:38am CST + The previous posts in this series looked at the success -- or lack thereof -- against American League pitchers in All-Star Games of Cubs greats who never batted in the World Series, and only 1 of whom batted in a handful of interleague games. Five players were featured: Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, Ryne Sandberg and Andre Dawson. Each post detailed the players performance through the lens of t...

Cubs milestone wins on road By JohnW53 on Jan 9, 2021, 3:43am CST + 11,000 games in the National League. They ended the season with 11,016. 4,971 on the road. So, the Cubs need 29 more wins to reach 5,000 on the road. They have won at least 30 road games in every full season but one beginning in 2001, and from 2015-19 they averaged 43. They were 15-12 on the road in the shortened 2020 season. ... Two Major League teams already have won 5,000 times on the road: the Giants (5,105) ...

share-square-1081114 CHICAGO -- The flags that fly atop the foul poles at Wrigley Field feature the most recognizable numbers in Cubs history -- digits no player will don again on the North Side. There is No. 10 for Ron Santo and No. 14 for Ernie Banks. Ryne Sandbergs No. 23 ripples in the Lake Michigan breeze, along with No. 26 for Billy Williams and No. 31 for both Fergie Jenkins and Greg Maddux. They took those numbers to great heights, but what about the other numbers worn throughout the Cu...