This current stretch of Chicago Cubs playoff level baseball is remarkable. I mean, it hasn’t happened since the very early days of the franchise. The Cubs were in the midst of another run of playoff baseball ten years ago.
The 2008 Cubs were widely regarded as the class of the National League. A year earlier they had exited the playoffs in the Division Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. They lost that series, dropping three straight games. Everyone thought 2008 would be the year.
Three big boppers made up the core of that club.