{"id":78,"date":"2025-04-25T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/78\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:50:09","slug":"can-the-chicago-cubs-offense-carry-them-to-the-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/78\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the Chicago Cubs offense carry them to the postseason?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Sports national MLB insider Russell Dorsey highlights the Chicago Cubs recent success due to Kyle Tuckers&#8217; arrival, plus a surge from the rest of the team&#8217;s offense that could potentially lead them to the postseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-show-transcript\">View more<\/p>\n<p>Video Transcript<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Cubs are the best offense in baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>They currently lead the league in average on-base percentage, hits, runs scored, and stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>And a big part of the Cubs&#8217; success is the arrival of Kyle Tucker.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker has been every part of the superstar that the Cubs thought they were getting when they traded for him from the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not just Tucker&#8217;s arrival that&#8217;s helped the Cubs&#8217; offense, it&#8217;s the fact that he&#8217;s helped make other members of their lineup better.<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;ve gotten incremental improvements from those players individually.<\/p>\n<p>Guys like Ian Hat, Sana Suzuki, Michael Busch, and Pete Crow Armstrong, who&#8217;s been one of the more dynamic players in all of baseball so far.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs haven&#8217;t won a postseason series since 2018, and while they&#8217;ll still need to make additions, whether that&#8217;s at third base, in the bullpen with some relievers and another starter, this offense looks like it can carry a team to the postseason, and if they continue to swing the bats the way they have in April, There&#8217;s gonna be some playoff games at Wrigley Field come soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-hide-transcript\">Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yahoo Sports national MLB insider Russell Dorsey highlights the Chicago Cubs recent success due to Kyle Tuckers&#8217; arrival,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,24,54,36,29,37,4,31,35],"class_list":{"0":"post-78","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago-cubs","10":"tag-houston-astros","11":"tag-ian-happ","12":"tag-kyle-tucker","13":"tag-michael-busch","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-offense","16":"tag-pete-crow-armstrong"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}