2021 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Epilogue

Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty ImagesI’m not going to get into a long recap of the season here. I said a lot of things over the final week of the season and this certainly wasn’t a season where “time to breathe” changed the perspective. It was a tumultuous season. My spreadsheet that I use to track the numbers is a mess. I basically had to track about 50 percent more players than I have in the past. Pretty crazy.

And you were all there for it. The Cubs turned over about a third of their roster in June. Coupled with injuries and then what appeared to be a final week COVID-19 outbreak and the Cubs cycled through a lot of warm bodies and names of players that even savvy Cubs trivia players might…