Cubs who led NL in pitching categories, Part 1 By JohnW53 on May 11, 2021, 6:38am CDT +
431 times, an average of more than 3 per season.
They have led in at least 1 of the 36 categories shown at Baseball-Reference.com in
110 of the 120 seasons. Three of the 10 in which they had no leaders have come in the past 20 seasons: 2001, 2009 and 2014.
In 1992, a Cub led in
16 categories; in every one, the leader was Greg Maddux.
In 1938, they led in
18, with Bill Lee on top in 14.
And in 1918, they were first in
21, including 16 by Hippo Vaughn.
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The Cubs won the pennant in the latter 2 seasons. They led in 14, 13 and 12 categories in 3 other title years: 1945, 1932 and 1929.
If the Cubs make July trades, what could they get for Kris Bryant?
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Leading up to the 2020 season, one of the defaults for a Kris Bryant trade to the Braves was for the Cubs to get Austin Riley in return. After all, Riley had years of valued service time to go. Also, he hadn’t proven his salt yet. For decades, trading a suspect for a veteran has been all the rage. The Cubs took on Cole Liniak as the player-to-be-named-later in the Rod Beck trade with the Red Sox in 1999. Back then, acquiring a player near MLB was often the goal. Since last year’s World Series concluded, six 2020 MLB draft picks have been traded, including Owen Caissie to the Cubs. Recent precedent indicates distance from MLB is tolerable.
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