The 2021 Cubs season began as the last hope for the team’s World Series core to make one last run at the ultimate baseball prize.
It ended with guys most of us had never heard of wearing the blue pinstripes, setting a MLB record for most players used in a season and losing 91 games, the most for the team since the rebuild year of 2013.
We all knew a selloff might happen if contention didn’t. I wrote about that when this season began, comparing this year to 1973, another season in which a beloved core of Cubs players made one last run at the postseason, which ultimately didn’t happen.