2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 98

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty ImagesThe “all good things must come to an end” feels like it describes not only yesterday’s game, but the entire last calendar year. It’s amazing to think that just 14 months ago, the Cubs were flying high, they appeared to have turned back the clock and were riding high atop the NL Central. Then June happened, one of the cruelest swoons even for an organization that has faded so often around that time in the past. That, of course, brought on the pain that was this time last year. Virtually the entire core traded all in one fell swoop.

We’re only a few days now from one of the last two pieces of the core being traded. Willson Contreras is almost certainly…