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Cubs who led NL in offensive categories By JohnW53 on May 9, 2021, 5:52am CDT + 45 different offensive categories. A Cub has led or tied for the National League lead in at least 1 category in 101 of Hack Wilson led in 17 in 1930; Heinie Zimmerman (1912) and Rogers Hornsby (1929), in 16; Derrek Lee (2005), in 14; and Billy Williams (1972) in 13. At the other extreme, Walt Moose Moryn and Lee Walls led the NL only once each while with the Cubs tying for most times hit by pitches in 1958, with 8. Ernie Banks led in WAR (10.2) and defensive WAR (3.5) in 1959, when he was voted Most Valuable Player for the second straight season. But he was only third in offensive WAR (7.8), trailing Hank Aaron (9.1) and Eddie Mathews (8.4). ....
Baseball is in long-term decline by nearly any metric someone might pick. World Series TV ratings have dropped slowly and steadily since the 1980s. Attendance had been on a downslope for about a decade before the pandemic made attendance a useless metric to sort out fan engagement. Most damningly, and over a longer term, the rate of Americans identifying baseball as their favorite sport was 39 percent in 1948 and had fallen to 9 percent by 2017. The sports world’s take-industrial complex ensures there is all manner of explanation for why baseball is not doing as well as it once was. The games are too boring, or too long. The same teams populate the pennant races just about every year. The rivalries are contrived for Sunday Night Baseball and not nearly as heated as in the old days. Kids have gravitated to other sports. ....
Not just holding on but getting better? By nativetexanasfan on Mar 7, 2021, 10:45am PST + I’ve been meaning to write about the A’s since spring training began. But John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle, an old colleague of mine at another newspaper, did a better job of it on Saturday than I could have. My point I had been aiming to make was: Don’t write off the A’s this season, even if the American League’s 2020 Reliever of the Year Liam Hendriks and shortstop Marcus Semien, third in the AL MVP voting in 2019, left this winter as free agents. ....