Cubs Have A .190 OPS Differential-Only Team To Finish Higher Since 1913 Was The 1927 Yankees

The Cubs hitters have an OPS of .773. Their pitchers have allowed .583 (only 8 teams since 1920 have allowed an OPS of .600 or less for a full season). Below are the top 25. Notice that .158 is currently 2nd place. The Cubs are well above that and it seems like they should easily finish the year in the top 25. They seem to have a good chance of making the top 10. They have played 58 games or just a bit more than a third of the season.

If the Cubs can have a differential of .100 the rest of the way, they would finish at .132. That would be 5th best ever. If they could do .141, they would finish at .159 or 2nd best ever. To make the top 25, they need about .064 from here on. That does not seem to hard given that they had .057 for all of last year.

Team	Year	OPS	OPSA	DIFF
NYY	1927	0.872	0.676	0.196
NYY	1939	0.825	0.667	0.158
ATL	1998	0.795	0.656	0.139
BAL	1969	0.756	0.620	0.136
NYY	1936	0.864	0.733	0.131
STL	1944	0.745	0.615	0.130
STL	1942	0.717	0.590	0.127
CLE	1948	0.792	0.665	0.127
NYY	1998	0.825	0.699	0.126
SEA	2001	0.805	0.679	0.126
PHA	1929	0.816	0.692	0.124
NYY	1937	0.825	0.704	0.121
CLE	1995	0.839	0.718	0.121
BRO	1953	0.840	0.722	0.118
CLE	1954	0.744	0.626	0.118
NYY	1932	0.830	0.714	0.116
NYY	1931	0.840	0.726	0.114
PHA	1928	0.799	0.685	0.114
ATL	1997	0.769	0.655	0.114
STL	1943	0.725	0.611	0.114
NYY	1921	0.838	0.725	0.113
BRO	1941	0.752	0.641	0.111
LAD	1974	0.743	0.633	0.110
PHA	1931	0.789	0.680	0.109
BOS	2003	0.851	0.742	0.109