When the Brewers acquired both Yelich and Cain, a lot of people scratched their heads. I pointed this out to my son, and he commented that the way it worked out for the Brewers was absolutely best-case scenario. I think they've overachieved.
The Cubs, on the other hand--the most significant of their off-season moves worked out as poorly as could be expected: Darvish, Morrow, Chatwood--they came up snake-eyes on all of those. Then KB was a shell of himself for most of the season. So to still get 95 wins under those circumstances, while getting breakout season from only Baez with basically disappointment from Russell, Happ, Schwarber, Almora--I'm with Craig. Overachievement. I think Maddon deserves a lot of credit, most of which he won't get.
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