The Cubs were so bad against lefty pitchers in 2020…How bad were they? The Cubs were so bad against lefties this past season, they made other bad teams look not bad. Though their aggregate .619 OPS was actually 10 points better than the Mariners, it was the lowest mark for any Cubs team in 101 years. And as Bryan Smith of Bleacher Nation points out, the ignominy is made worse by the fact that 2020 is the first season in which pitchers didn’t bat.
The 2020 Chicago Cubs, the first team in club history that didn’t have pitchers bat for themselves, had a .