Floyd, Jones, Murton, and Monroe certainly are.  So were Barrett's.  Lee and Ramirez are down in HR only, but on par in overall production with their career norms.  DeRosa is better than his career trend, and Kendall has been similar to his norm while he's been with the Cubs.  Soriano is not far off his norm in any category except RBI (which is team dependent, and largely due to the fact that our bottom of the order has been terrible this year).  His totals are down, but that's because he missed a month of the season with injury.

The question is whether you're comparing to career performance or recent trends.  Lee is down compared to 2005, but 2005 was wildly outside of his career trend.  Soriano is definitely down compared to last  year, but last year was certainly the best of his career.

..and believe it's the main reason the Cubs are where they are, not further ahead. That and lack of a bust-out season from a pitcher, a la 1989 with ....(fill in blank, big righty who won 17 G out of nowhere, can't remember the name right now!! used to do commentary in Dan Pleasac role for FoxSports Chicago).

You need a few of your players to have bust-out seasons to win...only Theriot has and maybe this is his norm, DeRosa has been better than expected, but about same as last year.

The game across board is down in power but Cubs are really down...wonder what their HR for and against is?? Surely one of worst in baseball, and still a winning team!

The Cubs surely when building this team expected more out of C and RF than they've gotten, offensively, power-wise...Soto looks like he could be the answer behind the plate, but not sure what the answer is in RF..I'm not clear if Pinella likes this juggling act(Floyd, Murton, Jones, DeRosa, Pagan) or just does it because that's his best option.

I'm assuming Pie is gonna be the regular CF not sure we can or want to count on a comeback (power-wise) year from Jones in RF. They need an Ankiel type. Don't see it in system Colvin will need another year of seasoning.