What will the Cubs Look like in 2025?

Larrylambert
3 min readJul 27, 2024

Here’s one potential preview.

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Well, it’s July 26, 2024, and another Cubs season has gone down the toilet. The Cubs have set their sights on regrouping for the 2025 season. But what does that mean? Trades? Looking ahead to free agency? Getting help from the Cubs’ highly rated farm system?

Probably whatever is low risk and doesn’t involve a serious outlay of money.

The Cubs were overrated by many, including myself

Last season the Cubs offense performed well by using the same approach as that Star Trek meanie, The Borg. If you aren’t aware of The Borg, The Borg use a collective consciousness to their advance agenda. This year some members of the Cubs Borg went solo and took away from the Cubs’ offense’s effectiveness. Some of this shouldn’t have been surprising.

For example, Yan Gomes had a career year at the age of 36 in 2023. A drop-off should have been expected. But Gomes didn’t drop off, he fell off a cliff. Hope at the catcher slot was theoretically supposed to come from Miguel Amaya. But that didn’t happen. And the Cubs haven’t had a response to the situation.

Dansby Swanson has been excellent in the field for a while, but I’m afraid his lack of offensive production is going to be the norm. He’s currently hitting .217…

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Larrylambert

You probably don't know my name, but have likely seen my work. I've written for numerous syndicated cartoon strips and my gags have appeared in national pubs.