JOT: Cubs Minor League Recap 5-4-2013 31 Comments
Bottom line: Cubs 2 out of 3. Not bad. Since Myles had a hard night last night, which we'll blame on the newborn, I volunteered to fill in today with my semi-annual ...
A Banner Year For International Free Agents 28 Comments
If we are judging by their names, that is. And I definitely am. We're still a couple of months away from the beginning of the signing period, but this fanpost ...
JOT: Cubs Minor League Recap 5-2-13 17 Comments
The Iowa Cubs and Kane County Cougars were postponed.
Tennessee Smokies 7 @ Mississippi Braves 0
Dallas Beeler threw 6.2 innings, allowed only 1 hit and no runs. He walked 3 and struckout ...
The Only Thing Tom Ricketts Threatened Was Some People’s Delicate Sensibilities 18 Comments
The Cubs released more renderings of what they would like Wrigley to look like after the renovations they've been planning for four years are complete. There was nothing earth-shattering. ...
Cubs Games Scores #1 (April 2013) 32 Comments
At the beginning of the season, I made a post with a new take on Game Score. That was the DiPS Game Score, found here.
Tom Tango, a consultant for the Cubs, did similar work along these ...
JOT: Cubs Minor League Recap 5-1-13 23 Comments
Round Rock Express 1 @ Iowa Cubs 0
Chris Rusin had a very good start. He went 7 innings, allowed 6 hits and a run. He walked none and struckout 5. Hisanori Takahashi struck a batter ...
Cubs Groundball Rate: Snorting Bosio’s Magic Sinker Dust 15 Comments
Prior to the season, I was set to write about how the Cubs were gradually amassing a bunch of fly-ball heavy pitchers. I never ended up getting around to it, but I'm not one ...
Journeymen of Tomorrow: Minor League Leaders 25 Comments
Once a month, I'm going to take a look at the Cubs leaders at each level in various statistics and how they rank among the larger group. The stats are current through the end of ...
JOT: Cubs Minor League Recap 4-30-13 29 Comments
Round Rock Express 2 @ Iowa Cubs 7
Guillermo Monosco threw 5 innings, allowed 3 hits and a run on a walk, 6 strikeouts. The run he allowed was on a solo home run. Yoanner Negrin threw ...
Cubs Regression To The Mean 64 Comments
The Cubs have been an enigmatic team this year in a few ways. I was looking earlier for reasons to be optimistic about the Cubs, and I found some; however, the Cubs have been equally ...
JOT: Cubs Minor League Recap 4-29-13 30 Comments
Round Rock Express 10 @ Iowa Cubs 9
Nick Struck walked 4 and struckout 1. He gave up 3 home runs. In just 3 innings he gave up 4 hits and 5 runs. The only other pitcher worth mentioning ...
Cubs Prospect Profile: Jae-Hoon Ha 27 Comments
This is a continuation of the weekly series of of writing about a Cubs prospect profile. Early on, I will be writing about guys that Dave and I did not cover in our Prospect Ratings. ...
Theo Epstein on the closer by committee in 2003 74 Comments
Prior to the season, Jim Leyland expressed why he doesn't want to use a closer by committe. I appreciated his honesty.
And you automatically understand — and this sounds ...
Another Matt Garza setback and what to do with Scott Feldman 39 Comments
Matt Garza's rehab start was scratched the other day due to soreness in the arm. It's being called dead arm, which is common for players. It's especially common for those ...
JOT: Cubs Minor League Recap 4-23-13 12 Comments
Iowa Cubs 1 @ Memphis Redbirds 4
This will be short since the I-Cubs barely hit the ball last night.
Nick Struck went 6 innings, allowed 5 hits and 2 runs. He walked 2 and struckout ...
Fuck You Dale Sveum 45 Comments
It's been a few years since I busted out one of these but the mindfuck that was Dale Sveum's comments today about Castro & Rizzo has enraged me to the point of typing about ...
Journeymen of Tomorrow: Week 3 Prospect Watch 16 Comments
Each Saturday, I'm going to summarize the weekly performance top prospects at each level. Hopefully, this will give more of a snapshot of how our future Cubs are doing.
AAA
Brett ...
JOT: Cubs Minor League Recap 5-5-13 2 Comments