A week ago, I outlined the 5 reasons the Cleveland Indians will win the World Series in 2017, but baseball is not a game played on stat sheets and paper. It is a game consisting of 162 regular season games, four rounds of playoffs, and one million factors working together.
For the Chicago Cubs to complete their journey to a title, they needed everything to go right. In the end, they won the World Series by one run in the 10th inning after a rain delay. There is no way to predict or plan for all the problems every team faces every season, game, inning, or pitch.