I can’t decide if the first 10 Cubs games this year were totally unexpected or exactly what everyone expected. I suspect the correct answer is somewhere in the middle. I’m going to do one of these “state of the union” pieces roughly every 10 games through the year. In this space, I’ll give you the updated year to date standings for Heroes and Goats. I’ll also look at some statistics from the hitters and the pitchers and we’ll track the progress of them over the course of the season to see how things are trending.
Of course, we’ve only had 10 games, and 10 games don’t particularly set trends so much as stake out what the trends might be.