Cubs Come Away From Uneventful Winter Meetings with Ian Stewart and Nate Schierholtz 47 Comments
The Cubs big moves during the winter meetings were to sign two players that were non-tendered by their teams a week ago. This is a year!
The Cubs signed former Giants OF Nate Schierholtz ...
Cubs acquire Hector Rondon in Rule Five Draft 31 Comments
The Cubs acquired RHP Hector Rondon from Cleveland in the rule five draft this morning. He was a former relatively top prospect in the organization (#7 in the org going into 2010) before ...
Free agents want to play for Cubs 18 Comments
NASHVILLE — Despite 101 losses in 2012, Cubs president Theo Epstein said there is no shortage of free agents who want to be part of the organization.
Epstein said free agents ...
Cubs hire Jim Deshaies to replace Bob Brenly 15 Comments
From cubs.com:
Deshaies has reportedly accepted a four-year offer from WGN to be the color commentator for the Chicago Cubs telecasts. WGN's Bob Vorwald would not comment on the ...
Winter Meetings Facepalm ***UPDATED*** 78 Comments
The Winter Meetings are underway and even though the Cubs won't be that active, I wanted to keep up with what's going on with them.
Kyuji Fujikawa
It still appears as though ...
Cubs sign Kyuji Fujikawa 21 Comments
The Cubs signed 32 year old Japanese free agent Kyuji Fujikawa to a 2-year deal worth $9.2 million. The contract includes a vesting option for 2015 depending on games finished that ...
Venezuelan league team was worse with Josh Vitters so they released him 51 Comments
Josh Vitters had a decent season in AAA and then was ridiculously bad at the MLB level. He was playing the Venezuelan Winter League until yesterday when Leones del Caracas released ...
Cubs sign Scott Feldman 98 Comments
The Cubs added another right handed starting pitcher to their team today when they signed Scott Feldman to a 1-year deal for $6 million. There's another million bucks in incentives. ...
Cubs interested in Giancarlo Stanton 107 Comments
Nick Cafardo says the Cubs are one of many teams interested in acquiring the Marlins 22 year old superstar.
1. Giancarlo Stanton, RF, Marlins — It would be a coup for whichever ...
Cubs sign Dioner Navarro, Garza cleared to resume something 88 Comments
Continuing with the Cubs tradition of signing relatively safe picks for next to nothing, the Cubs have signed Dioner Navarro to a 1-year, $1.75 million contract. SportsBettiing.ag might ...
Free Agent signings from last year 25 Comments
The Cubs weren't very active last winter and the moves they made were relatively safe. They placed their bets on the likes of Paul Maholm, Reed Johnson and David DeJesus so as far ...
Cubs sign Scott Baker 189 Comments
According to MLBTR, the Cubs have signed Scott Baker to a 1-year deal. Baker missed the entire 2012 season after undergoing elbow ligament replacement (Tommy John surgery). His last ...
Cubs interested in Brandon McCarthy and Shaun Marcum 65 Comments
We first heard about the Cubs possible interest in Brandon McCarthy a couple days ago and Gordon Whittenmeyer is confirming the Cubs interest, as well as throwing another name out there: ...
Cubs Trade Marmol to California Angels of Disneyland for Dan Haren? 49 Comments
There are multiple reports that the Cubs and Angels have traded Carlos Marmol for Dan Haren.The Angels seemed reluctant to keep Haren on a $15.5m option year. Per Robothal, the Angels ...
Epstein, Bush, and the coaching staff 27 Comments
Theo Epstein talked Cubs a year after his hiring was official.
One year ago, the Cubs had one player who projected as part of the core Epstein and Co. are trying to develop and that ...
Cubs acquire Marcelo Carreno from Tigers 18 Comments
Earlier today the Cubs completed the Jeff Baker trade with the Tigers as they acquired Marcelo Carreno. Fangraphs uses his first name, Josue, rather than the middle name, which I would ...
A rough estimate of Justin Upton’s trade value 178 Comments
In the comments awhile back we were talking about the Cubs possibly going after Justin Upton. GW wrote about Towers postseason press conference in which he identified 3 areas the Dbacks ...
Cubs Swing And Miss on Sanchez No Comments