2021 Chicago Cubs

71-91 • .438 Win% • 4th in NL C

The 2021 Chicago Cubs went 71-91 (.438) finishing 4th in the NL C division. The club scored 705 runs, allowed 839, and played home games at Wrigley Field. Team leaders included Patrick Wisdom (28 HR, 61 RBI) and Kyle Hendricks (14-7, 4.77 ERA).

W (Wins):
Games credited to a pitcher whose team took a lead it never surrendered while he was the pitcher of record.
L (Losses):
Games charged to the pitcher of record when the opposing team took a lead it never surrendered.
RS (Runs Scored (team)):
Total runs a team scored across the season.
RA (Runs Allowed):
Total runs a team allowed across the season.

Data updated

📊 Season Record

71 Wins
91 Losses
.438 Win %
4th Rank
705 R 839 RA
Diff -134

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705 Runs Scored
839 Runs Allowed
-134 Run Diff
1,978K Attendance

📈 vs. 2021 NL Average

Batting Avg .236 2% below the 2021 league average (.242)
OBP .311 2% below the 2021 league average (.318)
SLG .407 equal to the 2021 league average (.406)
Team ERA 4.87 16% worse than the 2021 league average (4.20)
Runs Scored 705 2% below the 2021 league average (722 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumWrigley Field
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Home Games 81
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Total Attendance 1,978,934
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Avg per Game 24,431

⚾ Batting Leaders

Team HR Leaders — 2021

Batting Avg

1 Frank Schwindel 0.342 2 Nico Hoerner 0.302 3 Rafael Ortega 0.291 4 Matt Duffy 0.287 5 Kris Bryant 0.267

Home Runs

1 Patrick Wisdom 28 2 Ian Happ 25 3 Javier Baez 22 4 Willson Contreras 21 5 Kris Bryant 18

RBI

1 Ian Happ 66 2 Javier Baez 65 3 Patrick Wisdom 61 4 Willson Contreras 57 5 Kris Bryant 51
2021 Chicago Cubs — RBI
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Ian Happ 148 465 63 105 20 1 25 66 62 156 9 0.226
Willson Contreras 128 413 61 98 20 0 21 57 52 138 5 0.237
Patrick Wisdom 106 338 54 78 13 0 28 61 32 153 4 0.231
Javier Baez 91 335 48 83 9 2 22 65 15 131 13 0.248
Kris Bryant 93 326 58 87 19 2 18 51 39 89 4 0.267
Jason Heyward 104 323 35 69 15 2 8 30 27 68 5 0.214
Anthony Rizzo 92 323 41 80 16 3 14 40 36 59 4 0.248
Rafael Ortega 103 296 44 86 14 2 11 33 30 70 12 0.291
David Bote 97 291 32 58 10 2 8 35 27 73 0 0.199
Matt Duffy 97 289 45 83 12 0 5 30 25 63 8 0.287
Joc Pederson 73 256 35 59 11 2 11 39 22 74 2 0.230
Frank Schwindel 56 222 42 76 19 1 13 40 16 36 2 0.342
Sergio Alcantara 89 220 30 45 6 3 5 17 30 74 3 0.205
Eric Sogard 78 169 16 42 6 1 1 12 9 30 3 0.249
Nico Hoerner 44 149 13 45 10 0 0 16 17 25 5 0.302
Jake Marisnick 65 128 17 29 6 3 5 22 9 43 3 0.227
Robinson Chirinos 45 97 13 22 5 1 5 15 9 36 0 0.227
Andrew Romine 26 60 7 11 2 0 1 5 4 24 0 0.183
Austin Romine 28 60 5 13 2 0 1 5 2 22 0 0.217
Kyle Hendricks 32 52 3 6 1 0 0 1 2 26 0 0.115
Alfonso Rivas 18 44 7 14 1 0 1 3 4 16 0 0.318
Nick Martini 25 37 4 10 1 0 0 4 6 10 0 0.270
Michael Hermosillo 16 36 5 7 2 0 3 7 1 12 0 0.194
Zach Davies 33 34 2 6 0 0 0 2 0 8 0 0.176
Alec Mills 33 32 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 26 0 0.031
Adbert Alzolay 30 31 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 13 0 0.065
Johneshwy Fargas 15 31 3 7 0 1 0 2 1 8 1 0.226
Greg Deichmann 14 30 0 4 0 0 0 1 1 14 0 0.133
Trayce Thompson 15 28 6 7 1 0 4 9 7 11 2 0.250
Tony Wolters 14 24 3 3 0 0 0 0 5 12 0 0.125
P. J. Higgins 9 23 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 8 0 0.043
Jake Arrieta 21 21 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 16 0 0.095
Ildemaro Vargas 9 21 3 3 2 0 0 2 3 7 1 0.143
Trevor Williams 13 18 1 4 0 0 0 1 1 6 0 0.222
Trent Giambrone 5 13 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.154
Justin Steele 20 13 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.154
Jose Lobaton 6 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 0.000
Erick Castillo 4 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0.250
Adrian Sampson 11 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0.000
Keegan Thompson 32 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.167
Taylor Gushue 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.000
Cory Abbott 8 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.333
Kohl Stewart 4 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.333
Rex Brothers 57 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Tommy Nance 27 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Tyler Payne 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Kyle Ryan 13 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Robert Stock 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Jake Jewell 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Craig Kimbrel 39 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Tyler Ladendorf 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Manuel Rodriguez 20 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Michael Rucker 20 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Dan Winkler 47 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jason Adam 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Joe Biagini 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Andrew Chafin 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Scott Effross 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.000
Codi Heuer 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Dillon Maples 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Trevor Megill 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ryan Meisinger 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Shelby Miller 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Adam Morgan 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Pedro Strop 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ryan Tepera 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Rowan Wick 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Brad Wieck 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Brandon Workman 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

Team K Leaders — 2021

ERA

1 Craig Kimbrel 0.49 2 Andrew Chafin 2.06 3 Dillon Maples 2.59 4 Adrian Sampson 2.80 5 Ryan Tepera 2.91

Wins

1 Kyle Hendricks 14 2 Zach Davies 6 3 Alec Mills 6 4 Adbert Alzolay 5 5 Jake Arrieta 5

Strikeouts

1 Kyle Hendricks 131 2 Adbert Alzolay 128 3 Zach Davies 114 4 Alec Mills 87 5 Rex Brothers 75
2021 Chicago Cubs — Strikeouts
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Kyle Hendricks 14 7 4.77 32 32 0 181.0 200 96 44 131
Zach Davies 6 12 5.78 32 32 0 148.0 162 95 75 114
Adbert Alzolay 5 13 4.58 29 21 1 125.2 112 64 34 128
Alec Mills 6 7 5.07 32 20 1 119.0 137 67 34 87
Jake Arrieta 5 11 6.88 20 20 0 86.1 113 66 39 74
Trevor Williams 4 2 5.06 13 12 0 58.2 68 33 22 61
Justin Steele 4 4 4.26 20 9 0 57.0 50 27 27 59
Keegan Thompson 3 3 3.38 32 6 1 53.1 48 20 31 55
Rex Brothers 3 2 5.26 57 0 1 53.0 41 31 35 75
Ryan Tepera 0 2 2.91 43 0 1 43.1 22 14 12 50
Dan Winkler 1 3 5.22 47 0 0 39.2 32 23 30 40
Andrew Chafin 0 2 2.06 43 0 0 39.1 21 9 12 37
Craig Kimbrel 2 3 0.49 39 0 23 36.2 13 2 13 64
Adrian Sampson 1 2 2.80 10 5 0 35.1 30 11 8 28
Dillon Maples 1 0 2.59 28 0 0 31.1 15 9 25 40
Codi Heuer 3 3 3.14 25 0 2 28.2 20 10 13 17
Tommy Nance 1 1 7.22 27 0 0 28.2 25 23 13 30
Michael Rucker 0 0 6.99 20 0 1 28.1 32 22 11 30
Adam Morgan 2 1 4.26 34 0 2 25.1 22 12 12 28
Trevor Megill 1 2 8.37 28 0 0 23.2 36 22 8 30
Rowan Wick 0 1 4.30 22 0 5 23.0 17 11 14 29
Manuel Rodriguez 3 3 6.11 20 0 1 17.2 18 12 12 16
Cory Abbott 0 0 6.75 7 1 0 17.1 20 13 11 12
Brad Wieck 0 0 0.00 15 0 0 17.0 10 0 10 28
Scott Effross 2 1 3.68 14 0 0 14.2 13 6 1 18
Kohl Stewart 1 1 5.27 4 3 0 13.2 17 8 6 11
Kyle Ryan 0 0 6.75 13 0 1 13.1 17 10 6 8
Jason Adam 1 0 5.91 12 0 0 10.2 10 7 6 19
Jake Jewell 0 2 9.90 10 0 0 10.0 18 11 5 10
Brandon Workman 0 2 6.75 10 0 0 8.0 12 6 7 11
Ryan Meisinger 0 0 12.27 7 0 0 7.1 11 10 5 6
Eric Sogard 0 0 6.23 5 0 0 4.1 7 3 0 1
Robert Stock 0 1 11.25 1 1 0 4.0 4 5 6 3
Joe Biagini 1 0 0.00 1 0 0 3.0 2 0 1 2
Shelby Miller 0 0 31.50 3 0 0 2.0 7 7 5 1
Pedro Strop 1 0 0.00 2 0 0 2.0 2 0 2 3
Andrew Romine 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 1.0 2 1 0 1
Anthony Rizzo 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0.2 0 0 1 1
Sergio Alcantara 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0
Matt Duffy 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0

👥 Roster (69)

Cory Abbott Jason Adam Sergio Alcantara Adbert Alzolay Jake Arrieta Javier Baez Joe Biagini David Bote Rex Brothers Kris Bryant Erick Castillo Andrew Chafin +57 more

69 players

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The 2021 Chicago Cubs in brief

The 2021 Chicago Cubs finished 71-91, a .438 winning percentage, placing 4th in the NL Central. The run column shows 705 for and 839 against. Against a league average of .242, the 2021 Chicago Cubs batted .236. The Chicago Cubs staff finished with a 4.87 ERA; the league as a whole was at 4.20. Measured against the 722-run league average, the offense was 2% behind. The home park, Wrigley Field, recorded 1,978,934 in attendance, about 24,431 a game.

For power, Patrick Wisdom led the way with 28 homers. The RBI leader was Ian Happ, with 66. Kyle Hendricks was the top winner, with 14 victories. Craig Kimbrel saved 23 games. In all, the roster shows 69 players. Neighboring pages cover the 2020 season and the 2022 season.

Frequently Asked Questions about the 2021 Chicago Cubs

What was the 2021 Chicago Cubs record?
The 2021 Chicago Cubs finished 71-91 (.438 win pct).
Who led the 2021 Chicago Cubs in home runs?
Patrick Wisdom led the 2021 Chicago Cubs with 28 home runs.
What was the 2021 Chicago Cubs team ERA?
The 2021 Chicago Cubs posted a team ERA of 4.87.
Did the 2021 Chicago Cubs win the World Series?
No. The 2021 Chicago Cubs did not win the World Series.
Where did the 2021 Chicago Cubs play?
The 2021 Chicago Cubs played home games at Wrigley Field.
Who led the 2021 Chicago Cubs in hitting and pitching?
Team leaders were Patrick Wisdom (28 HR, 61 RBI) and Kyle Hendricks (14-7, 4.77 ERA).
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