'Ultimately, it's about whether we can beat those projections,' Jed Hoyer said of PECOTA projections for a Cubs' 77-win season.
One of the reasons PECOTA projections doubted the Cubs was their starting pitching depth and lack of strikeout pitchers on the staff. Hoyer declined to discuss why their team projections suggest they will outperform PECOTA’s analytics.
“That’s a slippery slope, talking about whether you can outperform those,” Hoyer said. “But I think we’re going to throw a lot of strikes for sure. Our staff has really good command. We’re going to really catch the ball and then certainly the hope is that our run prevention in general exceeds expectations.
“But like I’ve said before, I’m never going to sit here and say why we’re going to outperform a certain projection system. ... We don’t have a strikeout pitching staff, but certainly we should limit our walks and hopefully the balls in play we can limit to outs.”to leave the Atlanta Braves and become the new face of the franchise, said he wouldn’t have signed without the idea of winning a World Series.“That’s the only goal,” Swanson said.
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