This explains a lot

CBS Sportsline is doing a feature about the "homegrown players" each MLB team has produced. The lineup of the Chicago Cubs could be the worst I've ever seen. These are the players that would have started for the Cubs if they only relied on their own farm system and didn't sign any free agents or acquire anyone via trade.

Ready? I warned you...it's bad.

1. Kosuke Fukudome, RF
2. Darwin Barney, 2B
3. Starlin Castro, SS
4. Tyler Colvin, LF
5. Casey McGehee, 3B
6. Eric Hinske, 1B
7. Geovany Soto, C
8. Sam Fuld, CF

Here are the pitchers...

1. Ricky Nolasco
2. Kyle Lohse
3. Andrew Cashner
4. Carlos Zambrano
5. Randy Wells

It's hard to believe, but I'd say this team is even worse than the crappy team they actually fielded last year.

This is the real reason the Cubs have always been terrible, and it's also the reason I'm excited by the new management team they've brought in--people that have actually focused on building a farm system from the ground up.