How should the Cubs approach the 2021 season?

Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesThe purpose of this article isn’t to belabor the things we already know about the Chicago Cubs, but I will sum them up anyway.

They didn’t hit for almost the entire 2020 season. Just two regular players (Ian Happ and Jason Heyward) had anything close to their normal offensive output. Others were worse, or in some cases (Javier Baez) at historic career lows.

This is not new. They haven’t hit in postseason games since 2016. They seem enamored of “launch angle” — home runs or nothing. It was mentioned on Friday’s Game 2 broadcast that the Cubs are close to the worst team in baseball at hitting high fastballs. You know this, I know this, everyone knows this…