Chicago Cubs previews

The Chicago Cubs swung for the fences with their offseason hire of Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein and entrusted him with the opportunity to do for the Cubbies what he did for the Red Sox and deliver a historic World Series title plus maybe one more for good measure. The organization Epstein inherits has been an underachieving mess. Can they turn it around and move up the ladder in the NL Central, still the easiest division in baseball to show rapid improvement in? TheSportsNotebook looks at the Cubs based on their ability to get on base, power, starting pitching and relief pitching