This glaring statistic tells you everything that's wrong with the 2025 Cubs

Ezra Shaw/GettyImages Despite repeated promises from Jed Hoyer and Carter Hawkins in the wake of the trade deadline that offensive struggles would not be the reason the Chicago Cubs wouldn't succeed, that exact issue has turned August into a nightmarish hellscape as we watch a team that incapable of hitting its way out of a paper sack more often than not.

After watching Craig Counsell's club get walked off twice and swept in the three-game series against the San Francisco Giants this week, frustrations are again on the rise. It's hard not to be, really, when this team's biggest problem is so painfully clear.

The Cubs are now 3-13 in August when they score 3 or fewer runs. They are 10-0 when…