60 Wins

On Tuesday the Cubs picked up their 60th win of the season.  It took them 100 games to do that.

A tweet yesterday by @Wrigleyblog gave the Cubs record when they picked up win #60 over the past five seasons.  It's been an amazing climb.

2012: 60-100...160 games to reach 60 wins

2013: 60-80....140 games to reach 60 wins, a 20 game improvement

2014: 60-74, 134 games to reach 60 wins, a 6 game improvement

2015: 60-48, 108 games to reach 60 wins, a 26 game improvement

2016: 60-40, 100 games to reach 60 wins, an 8 game improvement

The improvement from year to year is 20, 6, 28, and 8 games.  There is a big gain, then a smaller one the following year.  This year was a small gain, so if the pattern holds, next year they should have a gain of about 20 games, winning #60 after 80 games.

60-20 in 2017?  Sure....get to work on that now Theo!