A look at Anthony Rizzo’s new contract 12 Comments
The Cubs signed Anthony Rizzo to a contract last night. GW wrote about it in the wee hours of the morning today. Let's recap the specifics, along with GW's take on it.
Anthony ...
Anthony Rizzo Signs Extension With the Cubs 3 Comments
Anthony Rizzo has signed a long term extension with the Cubs. Ken Rosenthal has the details. The deal is for at least seven years (including 2013) and $41 million, which includes ...
Sweeney up, Sappelt down 16 Comments
From cubs.com:
The Cubs are expected to call up outfielder Ryan Sweeney from Triple-A Iowa and option Dave Sappelt to the Minor Leagues on Monday.
This is an interesting move. On one ...
Who Might Be Traded This Year? 77 Comments
A cursory glance at the Cubs' roster tells you a lot about the makeup of this team. They look be to a middling rotation, a middling bullpen, and a bottom-third offense. That's ...
Cubs Sign Scott Hairston 29 Comments
The Cubs have come to an agreement with outfielder Scott Hairston on a two year deal that could be worth up to six million dollars. The signing was originally reported by Ken Rosenthal ...
Cubs signed Jeff Samardzija and James Russell 56 Comments
It was reported yesterday that the Cubs signed Jeff Samardzija and James Russell to avoid arbitration. The Cubs signed Matt Garza yesterday and earlier this week they signed Luis Valbuena. ...
Cubs and Matt Garza avoid arbitration 82 Comments
The Cubs have avoided arbitration with another of their players. Last week they re-signed Luis Valbuena and they have now reached an agreement with Matt Garza for $10.25 million.
Cubs ...
Luis Valbuena avoid arbitration with Cubs 3 Comments
The Cubs have signed Luis Valbuena for $930,000, which is about $930,000 more than he deserves. Then again, the Cubs have few options at 3rd so maybe Valbuena is worth $930,000.
Valbuena ...
Daily Facepalm – 1.10.13 26 Comments
Hall of Fame
Nobody was elected to the Hall of Fame yesterday. It wasn’t that surprising based on Repoz’s collection of the ballots published online, but still frustrating.
The ...
Edwin Jackson Signs 28 Comments
Patrick Mooney was first with the news, and the usual suspects seem to be in agreement, though we at Obstructed View reserve the right to retract any and all free agent signing stories ...
Carlos Villanueva’s contract and Edwin Jackson 38 Comments
The Cubs signed Carlos Villanueva to a contract last night. We didn't know the terms of the contract and I felt about the contract similarly to Myles.
If I were a betting man, ...
Cubs Sign Carlos Villanueva 14 Comments
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/12/cubs-to-sign-carlos-villanueva.html
The Cubs have reportedly signed Carlos Villanueva to an undisclosed deal. Barring some unexpected turn of ...
Tigers re-sign Anibal Sanchez No Comments
The Cubs had reportedly reached an agreement on a 5-year deal for around $75 million with Anibal Sanchez, but then the report was contradicted by many people. We learned this morning ...
Cubs Swing And Miss on Sanchez No Comments
There 17 minutes where we were all pretty certain that the Cubs were going to sign Anibal Sanchez to a 5 year, 75 million dollar contract. Those were some great times…
Obviously, ...
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 ...
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. ...
Rule 5 Draft revisited 19 Comments