Each year, stat junkies start to get excited when Baseball Prospectus releases it’s PECOTA projections for the coming season. These are always filled with intrigue, from team records to an individuals numbers. You can get excited about what you see. Or you can be angry about the predictions for a player. In the end, most won’t be all that close. But we took a look at some of the key players for the Chicago Cubs to see what the PECOTA crystal ball sees in their future.
When this winter started, many Cubs fans were positive that Bryce Harper and Manny Machado might come to Chicago.