Emery Hunt

Having a day off is so important for this baseball team at this point.

You got through that very difficult top of the National League West road trip with a 3-3 split, which is good.

You know me.

When your series at home split on the road, you do that, you're going to the playoffs.

That's just the way it works.

And they did this against two of the best three teams in the National League, Braves being the other one, obviously.

Yeah.

And to know they're coming home and Craig Council gets a chance to reset, I'm interested to see what roster moves are made, not just in adding Daniel Palencia back, but what they decide to do with their starter tomorrow.

There's a lot of questions to be asked, but I don't think Craig Council is asking questions about his offense right now.

And that's taking a lot of pressure off of him as far as building a lineup each and every day.

He has excess options, in my opinion, when he writes out that lineup card every day.

What I look at with Nico Horner and what gives me –

kind of this idea that the Cubs are going to have a better offense than they did last year in totality.

Let me point that out.

So they're third in the league, third in Major League Baseball, excuse me, in runs scored, right?

But the key stat I just keep going back to, I cannot ignore, Layla, is that even though the Nationals and the Braves have scored more runs than them, not many, like five or six more than them, so they're averaging over five runs a game,

With runners in scoring position, they've had 319 at-bats.

That's more than anybody else in baseball.

That means they're getting the opportunities.

And really, even in games that they lose, right, it's usually we're lamenting, oh, you didn't get it done with runners in scoring position.