The Cubs are the best team in baseball, and it’s not particularly close.
It should be no surprise that they’re in the World Series except for this funny little statistical nugget – this is only the fourth time in the last ten seasons that baseball’s best team has made the Fall Classic. In that same time period, the same number of Wild Card teams have made it the World Series.
The Cubs were at or near the top of several impressive statistical categories this season – best ERA in Major League Baseball, by far the best defense, and the third most runs scored in baseball.