The Chicago Cubs had a hot month on offense in April, but like I and several others warned, some of those individual performances were not going to continue at that rate. However, I also didn’t expect the offense to tank as much as it collectively did in the month of May.
As a team, the Cubs posted a 92 wRC+ in May, ranking 24th in MLB. It was brutal. Batting average, OBP, SLG, all well below average, while also having the second-highest strikeout rate at 26.4 percent and only hitting 29 home runs in 28 games.