If the Chicago Cubs are going to find success in October, they almost certainly will need to have Kyle Tucker in their lineup. But even then, Tucker's second-half struggles would suggest that if he is playing hurt, he is far from the player who generated National League MVP consideration during the first half of the season. Add in the fact that Seiya Suzuki has looked lost over the last two months, and the Cubs may be forced to turn to an unsung hero.
That hero could be Michael Busch. For all the hits that Jed Hoyer had taken for his eagerness to give up on international prospects before they had broken out in the Cubs' system, trading for Busch appears to have been a stroke of genius.