Chicago Cubs should not overlook the incredibly slow start of a player by 2025 season

Life is pretty easy for the Chicago Cubs offensive at the moment. Regardless of the four-hit effort of the Cubs against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the team’s offensive is worn by the team.

Of course, the immediate reason for this success is Kyle Tucker. The arrival of Tucker confirmed immediate confirmation of what the Cubs lacked last season-a impact bat, which can hide other deficiency areas on the squad.

One of these recently deficiency areas was Shortstop Dansby Swanson. Thanks to a continuing second half of the 2024 season, Swanson’s offensive performance returned to a level under what they expected from him-16 Home Runs and 99 WRC+. In view of his defense value, Swanson was still able to create a 4.3 fwar

Tucker, who heads the offensive of the Cubs this season, seems to have made the fact that Swanson aggressively goes to another slow start. In his first 104 record appearances this season, Swanson .177/.223/.344/59WRC+ with 4 home runs. While Swanson in the first series of the season seemed to be an early user of the Torpedo bat, but this luck was worn out.

So far, Dansby Swanson has played like a player at replacement level

In this sense, one should mention that part of Swansons fights is simply due to the fact that he is unlucky. Swansons Babip is incredibly low to open the season with a brand of 0.206. But it’s not just bad luck. Swanson currently has a career clip of 28.8%. In short, Swanson strikes more, and when he puts the ball into the game, he will not find any holes.

The difference to Swanson’s fights last year compared to his fights this year is that his defense spends what his crime lacks. Swanson wears -0.1 Fwar in the season and partly on some unforgettable defensive metrics. Swanson’s range is far from being a bad field player this year, and seems to have withdrawn to open the 2025 season, and if he does not have the reach, this only emphasizes the lack of arm strength he has. In other words, Swanson played like an average field player at Shortstop this season instead of the Elite Gold -glover, which he was in the course of his career.

Assuming there is no injury, the figures indicate that the time of the father Swanson catches up with. This is not an ideal situation because it is under contract by 2030.