Chicago Cubs

151 seasons · 1876–2026 · 11,497–10,897 (.513) · 17 pennants · 3 World Series

Season by season

151 seasons, newest first. The year links to that season across all of baseball.

Year	Lg	Div	W	L	W–L%	Finish	R	RA	Result
2026	NL	—	78	60	.565	—	—	—
2025	NL	C	92	70	.568	2nd	793	649	Wild card
2024	NL	C	83	79	.512	3rd	736	669
2023	NL	C	83	79	.512	2nd	819	723
2022	NL	C	74	88	.457	3rd	657	731
2021	NL	C	71	91	.438	4th	705	839
2020	NL	C	34	26	.567	1st	265	240	Division
2019	NL	C	84	78	.519	3rd	814	717
2018	NL	C	95	68	.583	2nd	761	645	Wild card
2017	NL	C	92	70	.568	1st	822	695	Division
2016	NL	C	103	58	.640	1st	808	556	World Series
2015	NL	C	97	65	.599	3rd	689	608	Wild card
2014	NL	C	73	89	.451	5th	614	707
2013	NL	C	66	96	.407	5th	602	689
2012	NL	C	61	101	.377	5th	613	759
2011	NL	C	71	91	.438	5th	654	756
2010	NL	C	75	87	.463	5th	685	767
2009	NL	C	83	78	.516	2nd	707	672
2008	NL	C	97	64	.602	1st	855	671	Division
2007	NL	C	85	77	.525	1st	752	690	Division
2006	NL	C	66	96	.407	6th	716	834
2005	NL	C	79	83	.488	4th	703	714
2004	NL	C	89	73	.549	3rd	789	665
2003	NL	C	88	74	.543	1st	724	683	Division
2002	NL	C	67	95	.414	5th	706	759
2001	NL	C	88	74	.543	3rd	777	701
2000	NL	C	65	97	.401	6th	764	904
1999	NL	C	67	95	.414	6th	747	920
1998	NL	C	90	73	.552	2nd	831	792	Wild card
1997	NL	C	68	94	.420	5th	687	759
1996	NL	C	76	86	.469	4th	772	771
1995	NL	C	73	71	.507	3rd	693	671
1994	NL	C	49	64	.434	5th	500	549
1993	NL	E	84	78	.519	4th	738	739
1992	NL	E	78	84	.481	4th	593	624
1991	NL	E	77	83	.481	4th	695	734
1990	NL	E	77	85	.475	4th	690	774
1989	NL	E	93	69	.574	1st	702	623	Division
1988	NL	E	77	85	.475	4th	660	694
1987	NL	E	76	85	.472	6th	720	801
1986	NL	E	70	90	.438	5th	680	781
1985	NL	E	77	84	.478	4th	686	729
1984	NL	E	96	65	.596	1st	762	658	Division
1983	NL	E	71	91	.438	5th	701	719
1982	NL	E	73	89	.451	5th	676	709
1981	NL	E	38	65	.369	6th	370	483
1980	NL	E	64	98	.395	6th	614	728
1979	NL	E	80	82	.494	5th	706	707
1978	NL	E	79	83	.488	3rd	664	724
1977	NL	E	81	81	.500	4th	692	739
1976	NL	E	75	87	.463	4th	611	728
1975	NL	E	75	87	.463	5th	712	827
1974	NL	E	66	96	.407	6th	669	826
1973	NL	E	77	84	.478	5th	614	655
1972	NL	E	85	70	.548	2nd	685	567
1971	NL	E	83	79	.512	3rd	637	648
1970	NL	E	84	78	.519	2nd	806	679
1969	NL	E	92	70	.568	2nd	720	611
1968	NL	—	84	78	.519	3rd	612	611
1967	NL	—	87	74	.540	3rd	702	624
1966	NL	—	59	103	.364	10th	644	809
1965	NL	—	72	90	.444	8th	635	723
1964	NL	—	76	86	.469	8th	649	724
1963	NL	—	82	80	.506	7th	570	578
1962	NL	—	59	103	.364	9th	632	827
1961	NL	—	64	90	.416	7th	689	800
1960	NL	—	60	94	.390	7th	634	776
1959	NL	—	74	80	.481	5th	673	688
1958	NL	—	72	82	.468	5th	709	725
1957	NL	—	62	92	.403	7th	628	722
1956	NL	—	60	94	.390	8th	597	708
1955	NL	—	72	81	.471	6th	626	713
1954	NL	—	64	90	.416	7th	700	766
1953	NL	—	65	89	.422	7th	633	835
1952	NL	—	77	77	.500	5th	628	631
1951	NL	—	62	92	.403	8th	614	750
1950	NL	—	64	89	.418	7th	643	772
1949	NL	—	61	93	.396	8th	593	773
1948	NL	—	64	90	.416	8th	597	706
1947	NL	—	69	85	.448	6th	567	722
1946	NL	—	82	71	.536	3rd	626	581
1945	NL	—	98	56	.636	1st	735	532	Pennant
1944	NL	—	75	79	.487	4th	702	669
1943	NL	—	74	79	.484	5th	632	600
1942	NL	—	68	86	.442	6th	591	665
1941	NL	—	70	84	.455	6th	666	670
1940	NL	—	75	79	.487	5th	681	636
1939	NL	—	84	70	.545	4th	724	678
1938	NL	—	89	63	.586	1st	713	598	Pennant
1937	NL	—	93	61	.604	2nd	811	682
1936	NL	—	87	67	.565	2nd	755	603
1935	NL	—	100	54	.649	1st	847	597	Pennant
1934	NL	—	86	65	.570	3rd	705	639
1933	NL	—	86	68	.558	3rd	646	536
1932	NL	—	90	64	.584	1st	720	633	Pennant
1931	NL	—	84	70	.545	3rd	828	710
1930	NL	—	90	64	.584	2nd	998	870
1929	NL	—	98	54	.645	1st	982	758	Pennant
1928	NL	—	91	63	.591	3rd	714	615
1927	NL	—	85	68	.556	4th	750	661
1926	NL	—	82	72	.532	4th	682	602
1925	NL	—	68	86	.442	8th	723	773
1924	NL	—	81	72	.529	5th	698	699
1923	NL	—	83	71	.539	4th	756	704
1922	NL	—	80	74	.519	5th	771	808
1921	NL	—	64	89	.418	7th	668	773
1920	NL	—	75	79	.487	5th	619	635
1919	NL	—	75	65	.536	3rd	454	407
1918	NL	—	84	45	.651	1st	538	393	Pennant
1917	NL	—	74	80	.481	5th	552	567
1916	NL	—	67	86	.438	5th	520	541
1915	NL	—	73	80	.477	4th	570	620
1914	NL	—	78	76	.506	4th	605	638
1913	NL	—	88	65	.575	3rd	720	630
1912	NL	—	91	59	.607	3rd	756	668
1911	NL	—	92	62	.597	2nd	757	607
1910	NL	—	104	50	.675	1st	712	499	Pennant
1909	NL	—	104	49	.680	2nd	635	390
1908	NL	—	99	55	.643	1st	624	461	World Series
1907	NL	—	107	45	.704	1st	574	390	World Series
1906	NL	—	116	36	.763	1st	704	381	Pennant
1905	NL	—	92	61	.601	3rd	667	442
1904	NL	—	93	60	.608	2nd	597	517
1903	NL	—	82	56	.594	3rd	695	599
1902	NL	—	68	69	.496	5th	544	505
1901	NL	—	53	86	.381	6th	578	699
1900	NL	—	65	75	.464	6th	635	751
1899	NL	—	75	73	.507	8th	812	763
1898	NL	—	85	65	.567	4th	828	679
1897	NL	—	59	73	.447	9th	832	894
1896	NL	—	71	57	.555	5th	815	804
1895	NL	—	72	58	.554	4th	866	854
1894	NL	—	57	75	.432	8th	1056	1080
1893	NL	—	56	71	.441	9th	829	874
1892	NL	—	70	76	.479	7th	635	735
1891	NL	—	82	53	.607	2nd	832	730
1890	NL	—	83	53	.610	2nd	847	692
1889	NL	—	67	65	.508	3rd	867	814
1888	NL	—	77	58	.570	2nd	734	659
1887	NL	—	71	50	.587	3rd	813	716
1886	NL	—	90	34	.726	1st	900	555	Pennant
1885	NL	—	87	25	.777	1st	834	470	Pennant
1884	NL	—	62	50	.554	5th	834	647
1883	NL	—	59	39	.602	2nd	679	540
1882	NL	—	55	29	.655	1st	604	353	Pennant
1881	NL	—	56	28	.667	1st	550	380	Pennant
1880	NL	—	67	17	.798	1st	538	317	Pennant
1879	NL	—	46	33	.582	4th	437	411
1878	NL	—	30	30	.500	4th	371	331
1877	NL	—	26	33	.441	5th	366	375
1876	NL	—	52	14	.788	1st	624	257	Pennant

A dash is a value the source has not published — the season still being played has no final run totals. An empty result column means the club did not win any of those things that year, except in 1994, when a strike ended the season before the postseason, and in a season still under way — then there was nothing to win.

Career leaders with this club

Top 20 by wins above replacement accumulated with the Chicago Cubs, and the same for pitchers. Seasons where a player was mostly somewhere else are not counted here.

Batting20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	PA	H	HR	RBI	AVG
Ron Santo	1960–1973	88.3	2,126	8,979	2,171	337	1,290	.279
Cap Anson	1876–1897	72.3	2,277	10,123	3,012	97	1,880	.331
Billy Williams	1959–1974	70.0	2,213	9,504	2,510	392	1,353	.296
Ernie Banks	1953–1971	66.2	2,528	10,395	2,583	512	1,636	.274
Gabby Hartnett	1922–1940	63.8	1,926	7,132	1,867	231	1,153	.297
Ryne Sandberg	1982–1997	63.1	2,151	9,276	2,385	282	1,061	.285
Stan Hack	1932–1947	62.5	1,938	8,506	2,193	57	642	.301
Sammy Sosa	1992–2004	56.2	1,811	7,898	1,985	545	1,414	.284
Frank Chance	1898–1912	49.0	1,275	5,070	1,269	20	590	.297
Johnny Evers	1902–1913	48.9	1,409	5,634	1,340	9	448	.276
Billy Herman	1931–1940	48.6	1,333	6,121	1,703	37	577	.310
Jimmy Ryan	1885–1900	44.7	1,662	7,560	2,084	99	914	.308
Hack Wilson	1926–1931	43.0	850	3,719	1,017	190	769	.322
Bill Nicholson	1939–1948	42.2	1,349	5,614	1,323	205	833	.272
Joe Tinker	1902–1916	40.5	1,539	6,153	1,439	28	671	.259
Mark Grace	1988–2000	40.4	1,910	8,234	2,201	148	1,004	.308
Anthony Rizzo	2012–2021	40.0	1,357	5,839	1,354	250	805	.272
Bill Dahlen	1891–1898	39.9	987	4,521	1,170	57	561	.299
Phil Cavarretta	1934–1953	35.5	1,953	7,509	1,927	92	896	.292
Jimmy Sheckard	1906–1912	33.1	1,001	4,385	907	17	294	.257

Pitching20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	W	L	SV	IP	SO	ERA
Bill Hutchison	1889–1895	74.7	368	180	158	4	3022.3	1,225	3.56
Larry Corcoran	1880–1885	62.1	273	177	86	2	2363.3	1,096	2.27
Clark Griffith	1893–1900	51.5	265	152	96	1	2188.7	573	3.40
John Clarkson	1884–1887	50.4	199	137	57	0	1730.7	960	2.39
Mordecai Brown	1904–1916	49.8	346	188	86	39	2329.0	1,043	1.80
Hippo Vaughn	1913–1921	44.4	305	151	105	4	2216.3	1,138	2.33
Fergie Jenkins	1966–1983	44.2	402	167	132	6	2676.0	2,040	3.21
Rick Reuschel	1972–1984	42.4	370	139	131	3	2360.7	1,389	3.48
Charlie Root	1926–1941	40.7	605	201	156	40	3137.3	1,432	3.55
Fred Goldsmith	1880–1884	39.8	181	110	64	1	1546.7	402	2.78
Pete Alexander	1918–1925	36.2	235	125	80	10	1832.3	602	2.82
Bob Rush	1948–1957	35.4	339	110	140	7	2132.7	1,076	3.71
Greg Maddux	1986–2006	33.6	314	139	115	0	2089.7	1,341	3.60
Jack Taylor	1898–1907	32.6	199	97	87	3	1662.7	396	2.72
Terry Larkin	1878–1879	32.4	114	60	49	0	1019.3	305	2.34
Bill Lee	1934–1947	32.3	377	140	128	12	2332.0	891	3.54
Claude Passeau	1939–1947	32.3	300	126	98	15	1968.0	783	2.99
Lon Warneke	1930–1945	27.7	274	115	76	11	1706.7	737	2.86
Ed Reulbach	1905–1912	26.2	271	135	62	9	1826.0	789	2.19
Orval Overall	1906–1913	25.1	176	90	48	12	1217.3	762	2.07

Best single seasons

The highest wins above replacement any Chicago Cubs player has put up in one year.

BattingHR · RBI · AVG

1	Ron Santo1966 · 30 HR · 94 RBI · .312	11.3
2	Ron Santo1967 · 31 HR · 98 RBI · .300	11.3
3	Ron Santo1964 · 30 HR · 114 RBI · .313	10.5
4	Hack Wilson1930 · 56 HR · 191 RBI · .356	10.2
5	Sammy Sosa2001 · 64 HR · 160 RBI · .328	10.2
6	Rogers Hornsby1929 · 39 HR · 149 RBI · .380	10.1
7	Ron Santo1965 · 33 HR · 101 RBI · .285	9.2
8	Ernie Banks1958 · 47 HR · 129 RBI · .313	9.0
9	Ernie Banks1959 · 45 HR · 143 RBI · .304	8.9
10	Heinie Zimmerman1912 · 14 HR · 99 RBI · .372	8.8

PitchingW · SO · ERA

1	Al Spalding1876 · 47 W · 39 SO · 1.75	18.5
2	John Clarkson1885 · 53 W · 308 SO · 1.85	17.5
3	Bill Hutchison1892 · 36 W · 314 SO · 2.76	17.1
4	Terry Larkin1878 · 29 W · 163 SO · 2.24	16.7
5	Bill Hutchison1890 · 41 W · 289 SO · 2.70	16.2
6	John Clarkson1887 · 38 W · 237 SO · 3.08	15.9
7	Larry Corcoran1880 · 43 W · 268 SO · 1.95	15.9
8	Terry Larkin1879 · 31 W · 142 SO · 2.44	15.7
9	Bill Hutchison1891 · 44 W · 261 SO · 2.81	15.5
10	John Clarkson1886 · 36 W · 313 SO · 2.41	14.1

Names this club has played under

Name	Years	Seasons
Chicago White Stockings	1876–1889	14
Chicago Colts	1890–1897	8
Chicago Orphans	1898–1902	5
Chicago Cubs	1903–2026	124

How this page is built

Every row below is the club's own season, 1876 to 2026. That is 151 of them, 11,497–10,897 in all, a winning percentage of .513. 3 World Series — 1907, 1908, 2016.

Wins and losses on this page come straight from the source; the player tables do not. A season line in this database carries one club, the one where the player took the most plate appearances — or, for a pitcher, recorded the most outs — that year. So a player traded in July is credited to one side of the trade and not the other, and the career totals below are the club he mostly played for rather than a strict split. Wins above replacement is worked out per season here, and a season cannot be cut in half without recomputing it on a different basis, which would leave two numbers on this site that disagree. One basis, stated, is the honest version of that trade-off.

This club has played under 4 names. It began as the Chicago White Stockings in 1876 and is the Chicago Cubs now. The names, and the years each one covers, are listed further down. Relocations and renamings are kept together because the franchise is the thing that continued, which is also how the record books treat it.

What the columns mean, and where the franchise begins

Finishing position means a different thing before and after divisions arrived in 1969. Also: why the club's history starts in 1876 here, and what the run columns are for.

The franchise boundary is the source database's, not ours. Each season carries a franchise identifier, and that identifier is what groups the rows on this page. It merges moves and renamings — Brooklyn and Los Angeles are one club under it — and it also keeps some things apart that share a city and a nickname: the National Association clubs of 1871 to 1875 are separate franchises from the National League clubs that followed them in the same towns. We could have merged those by hand, and then this page would carry a career record that no published source agrees with. Following the identifier means the totals here can be checked against somebody else's.

The best and worst of it: 1906 and 1962. The 1906 club went 116–36 (.763); the 1962 club went 59–103 (.364). Schedules were not always the same length — a nineteenth-century season could be seventy games and 2020 was sixty — so read the percentage rather than the win column when the two are far apart in time.

Finishing position means different things in different eras. Before 1969 there were no divisions, so the finish column is the club's place in the whole league. From 1969 it is the place within a division, which is a smaller field, and a third place in a six-team division is not the same achievement as a third place in a ten-team league. The division column says which one applies. Nothing on this page is postseason record: the wins and losses are regular season only, and the World Series, pennant and division marks in the result column say what the club went on to win, not how it did once it got there.

Runs scored and runs allowed are here because they explain the record. A club that wins more games than its run difference suggests has usually won a lot of close ones, and that tends not to repeat. The two columns are the cheapest way to see whether a season was as good as its win total, and they are the input to most of the modern estimates of how many games a team should have won. They are blank for the season still being played where the source has not published them yet.

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). This page groups the source database's team seasons by its franchise identifier and adds up the Chicago Cubs careers of the players on the season pages. — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.