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This year’s Chicago Cubs team is as bad or worse than the 2012 squad

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It is unfortunate that we have come to a point this season where we are legitimately wondering if this Chicago Cubs season is rivaling one of (if not the) worst in recent history. The 2012 Cubs were the first team to lose 100+ games in a season since 1966 and had the fourth-lowest winning percentage (.377) of any team in franchise history. While it felt like it would not get that bad again anytime soon, here we are.

Jed Hoyer tearing down the core and starting a new era of Cubs baseball was never going to be pretty.