In 2022, as the season wore on, I wrote a lot about the road to the top and there being nothing guaranteed on that road. The White Sox of recent vintage were a great example of that. They were for all intents and purposes a team that was building and opening a contention window. They built it wrong, the bus broke down on the way to the top, and rats started jumping out like they did back in the day on a sinking ship.
But the 2023 season built pretty nicely on the progress made late in 2022 for the Cubs.