The Chicago Cubs are currently stuck in between two worlds: clinging to 2016 and pushing forward. There’s a fine line between hanging onto those talented commodities that made you successful in the past and also knowing when to cut bait with those same possibly empty-tanked pieces that are now detrimental to your continued success.
Some have called this the “winner’s trap.” The idea that you’ve won in the past and you have the pieces to win leads many to keep rolling the same group of players out there in the hopes that at some point, something might spark and then stick for good.