Over the first two months of the season, the Cubs (10.8%) had MLB’s highest team walk rate. However, that rate has gone off a cliff like Wile E. Coyote and ranks 15th in baseball since the end of May (8.2%).
The Cubs were walking in just 8.4% of their plate appearances in June and that mark is even lower as we near the end of July. So they’re walking nearly 40% less than early in the season, a serious indictment of their collective plate approach and a contributing factor to their general failure to put enough runners in scoring position.