Chicago – Do not look now, but the Chicago Cubs are driving, and the engine of their success at the start of the season was the high -level production of their altered attack.
After the first month of the MLB 2025 season, the title of “”Better offense in baseball“Belongs to the cubs. At 26 games, Chicago leads the whole MLB on average in the stick (0.265), as a basic percentage (0.346), in OPS (0.806), in safety (243) and in marked races (163). In addition, the Cubs lead the league into stolen bases by a wide margin, with 40.
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In addition, in the games in which they have followed, the Cubs strikers have proven several times that a deficit is not something that stood them, a sign of a confident offense even in April. Just last week, they fought to beat the diamondbacks 13-11 last Friday And dodgers 11-10 Tuesday.
“I think I am at the end of the games and win matches in which you have broken down, I think it's a very good experience for the teams at the start of the season,” said manager Craig Counsell. “I think they are important experiences. To face the arenas and the best that the other teams have is the construction of resilience.
“And so I think it's a step in this direction.”
As a rule, when a baseball team has an elite programming, there is a renowned player in the middle who improves each striker around him. Enter Kyle Tucker.
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Tucker, acquired from the astros as the biggest movement of the intersane cubs, was one of the best baseball players before never walking in Chicago. But since his arrival in December, he has been at each part of the superstar that Cubs have needed for years, and in turn, he helps to raise the rest of the offense.
The All-Star three times reduced .314 / .423 / .637 with eight doubles, two triple circuits, 25 points produced and seven stolen bases so far. Before the free agency this winterTucker is on the pace of his best season. And given the high production level of the entire Cubs range, the Chicago's assessment has become quite difficult for opposing launchers.
Although the immediate impact of Tucker's superstar could have been expected, a more surprising development – and what really unlocked the team's offensive at the start of the season – was the spectacular improvement throughout the CUBS programming. Last season, the Cubs had only one player with an OPS of more than 0.800, and it was the former right defender and current designated striker Seiya Suzuki.
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Until now this season, they have five starters exceeding the OPS threshold: the first goal player Michael Busch (.973), the central defender Pete Crow-Armstrong (.888), the receiver Carson Kelly (1.414), Suzuki (.894) and Tucker (1,060). The second goal player Nico Hoerner and the left -hand player Ian Happ are both greater than 0.700. With the instantaneous impact of the new faces of Tucker and Kelly, combined with steps in front of young Busch and Crow-Armstrong players as well as veterans of Hoerner and Happ, the offensive of Cubs seems more formidable than she has done for years.
The biggest offensive surprise for Cubs so far is Crow-Armstrong, who has been one of the most dynamic players in baseball to start the season. Always considered a glove player, pca broke out on the stage offensively in his second season. The fast central field player already has nine doubles, a triple and five circuits to go with its 10 stolen bases.
By plunging into the figures this year compared to the biggest difference is that Crow-Armstrong hits the ball in the air by 47.9% so far in 2025, against 42.5% in 2024. In addition, its hard contact rate is increased by almost 7%.
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At a time when the power of baseball seems to have changed (without puns) to the national league, it is crucial for any potential competitor to have an offense that can keep the rhythm of the other powerful clubs of Dodgers, Padres, Diamondbacks and Phillies. With Chicago having already faced four of these teams and playing three games against the phillies This weekend at homeThe Cubs have more than held on the blows thanks to a difficult schedule at the start of the season.
The Cubs have not had an offensive among the first five in baseball since 2017, which is also the last time that this team has won an eliminatory series, but with the way things are looking for so far and the solid production that Cubs obtain from top to bottom, they could become again among the first five this season.
Not only that, but if the offensive improvements of Chicago prove to be durable – and the first signs suggest that they are – it is a team that could go to the playoffs this year.
