Assessing the Cubs offense one week into the season
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Generally after a week of games I’d disregard any numbers as too small of a sample size to really get excited about. Sure, it can be fun to use those early trends as a jumping off point for a conversation, but chances are things will change over the course of a full 162-game season.
With that gigantic caveat established, I have this “uh oh, we’ve seen this movie before” feeling about the Cubs offense so far. Specifically, the boom and bust cycles that quickly ushered the Cubs out of the playoffs in 2020 don’t seem to have gone anywhere. If anything, they seem to be further entrenched.
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