A decade or so ago, the Chicago Cubs front office was not only the toast of the town - but the crown jewel of baseball, a master class in how to run an MLB organization in today's world. Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer were several years into a painful rebuild but the fruits of their labor - and fans' suffering - were starting to pay off with a farm system on a meteoric rise, headlined by the #2 overall pick in the 2013 draft, Kris Bryant.
W | L | Pct | GB | |
---|---|---|---|---|
16 | 8 | .667 | 0.0 | |
16 | 9 | .640 | 0.5 | |
14 | 11 | .560 | 2.5 | |
13 | 13 | .500 | 4.0 | |
11 | 14 | .440 | 5.5 |