Although the 2025 Chicago Cubs have punched their ticket for the playoffs, the team is about to extend a streak we would all rather see broken sooner rather than later.
I'm talking about the fact that it has been seven years since the Cubs have had a player record more than 100 runs batted in during the regular season, a feat that was last accomplished by Javier Baez and Anthony Rizzo in 2018. This stat is certainly not the end-all, be-all of a baseball season, but driving in runs is a clear indicator of clutch hitting and you need big run producers to succeed.