John Grochowski | For the Sun-Times
His Fangraphs WAR in 37 games before getting hurt was 1.3. That put him on a pace for a full-season fWAR of about 5, which is on the All-Star/superstar divide.
Baseball Reference, Fangraphs use metric to measure different things.
A handful of Cubs and Sox and Cubs have been star-level by the numbers. Let’s take a look at them.
The overall trend has been that homer streaks of at least five games have gone hand-in-hand with staying power.
The Cubs are far better than the White Sox on that side of the ball, but don’t blame Luis Robert Jr. for that.
Hitting .275/.335/.562 with 11 home runs, Robert ranks 29th among major-league qualifiers with a .377 weighted on-base average.
Willson Contreras liked hitting at Wrigley Field, but the ballpark is no longer the extreme hitters’ park it was in the 1960s and ’70s.
Through games of Sunday, scoring is up when compared to March and April of 2022. So are singles, batting average and stolen bases. The average game times of 2 hours, 36 minutes are down from 3:03 in 2022.
Their average of 5.76 runs per game (through Sunday) is impressive, but it’s unlikely to be sustainable