Earlier this season, when Kyle Tucker and Seiya Suzuki and Pete Crow-Armstrong were absolutely GOING OFF, it felt like Michael Busch barely got any attention. That, despite the fact that there were long stretches when he, not the other three, was producing at the best rate.

More recently, when when Kyle Tucker and Seiya Suzuki and Pete Crow-Armstrong were absolutely STRUGGLING, it felt like Michael Busch … also barely got any attention. That, despite the fact that his .190/.248/.341/65 wRC+ slash line, and not the others’, is the worst on the Cubs in the second half.

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