The attention, at this point, needs to be on wild card implications given the team's recent skid.
Having lost five games to the Milwaukee Brewers just this week, the Chicago Cubs’ divisional aspirations are unofficially on life support. The relevant question for the moment is, ‘Will they hang on in the wild card race?
As they disembark in Toronto for a three-game series that begins Tuesday against the AL East leaders, the Cubs lead that race, but only by a game and a half over San Diego.