Outside of the 2016 World Series champion team, the 2015 Chicago Cubs might be the most popular team the franchise put out in the past 30-some years. The young upcoming team shocked the baseball world by winning 97 games and making it to the NLCS for the first time since 2003. Even after getting swept in by the Mets in that series, the promise for the core was officially established that season.
Hard to forget the rookie campaign of Kris Bryant, the Cubs’ debut season of Jon Lester, Kyle Schwarber hitting titanic shots, Jake Arrieta‘s Cy Young campaign or beating two division rivals in the postseason.