Though they enter Thursday’s action in first place in the NL Central and now boast an elite closer, along with several potential All-Stars on the offensive side, the Cubs just don’t look like a complete team. There are several areas of need you could point to, but there’s just a certain quality that’s missing. Absent a few flashes here and there, it’s like someone turned down the rheostat on the excitement level.
It’s entirely possible that the dial gets turned back up in the second half and we again see that Cubs team with which we fell in love back in 2015.