There’s no way around it. Last season, the Chicago Cubs expected more from Jason Heyward at the dish.
His .632 OPS ranked as the worst of his career; so did his .230 average across 592 plate appearances. In the postseason, his average hovered around the .100 mark, although he delivered the now-famous ‘weight room speech’ during the Game 7 rain delay, etching his name in Cubs’ immortality.
Thankfully, pieces like Addison Russell broke out in a big way, picking up the slack offensively. Not to mention, you had two MVP-caliber pieces at each corner infield spot in Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant.