I thought I’d take a break from the drumbeat of little or no news on the MLB labor front and take a dive into Cubs history.
Let me begin by saying I am not writing this article to disparage any of these players. They’re all good MLB players — in fact, some had really good years, and even with the Cubs — but they had one season which ranked in the bottom 10 by bWAR in Cubs franchise history, since 1920.
Why 1920? Because prior to 1920, the minimum requirement to qualify for the batting title — which is the criterion I used to look up these players — was:
a player must have appeared in 60% of the team’s games to qualify for a title.