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Hello and welcome to episode 87 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball

Prospectus presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index at baseballreference.com.

I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538, joined by Sam Miller of baseball prospectus, hello Sam.

Howdy.

So we are going to talk about the Cubs today.

We haven't done a whole lot of Cubs salivating this season, not that there has been any shortage

of that elsewhere on the internet.

But my friend and colleague, our friend Rob Arthur from 538, wrote about the Cubs yesterday

and he is joining us to talk about that article and other Cubs matters.

Hello Rob.

Hey.

So, you wrote an article called The Cubs Start is even more dominant than it seems since

that article came out.

The Cubs naturally won again, ran their run differential, another four runs higher, so

they are now outscoring their opponents by 93 runs on the season.

Can I just say that that is a run differential of 93 is very cool, but it's even cooler if

you actually say the numbers, so can I say the numbers?

Sure.

They scored 159 and allowed 66.

Yeah.

That kind of drives it home.

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