Dave Cameron on draft pick compensation 1 Comment
Dave Cameron points to a study on value of draft picks which is pretty straightforward – i.e. here are the values you should price into a FA signing. But what I found more interesting ...
Better Know a Cub: Tony Campana No Comments
Tony Campana is wholly unlike any other Cub in recent memory. Campana is incredibly fast, maybe on the 5 fastest players in baseball (including the minors). To give some perspective, ...
Better Know a Cub: Alberto Cabrera No Comments
Rob Deer is known as one of the masters of Three True Outcomes. If Deer didn’t hit a home run or draw a walk, Rob Deer was striking out.
Alberto Cabrera was the Rob Deer of pitching ...
Better Know a Cub: Michael Bowden No Comments
Michael Bowden was a bit of a mirage last year.
Drafted with the 47th overall pick in 2005, Bowden hung around the Boston organization for 7 years, never really showing a whole lot ...
Better Know a Cub: Scott Baker No Comments
There is one thing that Tom Ricketts loves above all others, and that is starting pitchers named Scott.
He signed Scott Feldman to a one-year, $6 million pact, but the true bargain ...
Better Know a Cub: Scott Feldman No Comments
The offseason following the 2012 has been relatively busy for the Cubs, almost of which has been trades and signings they didn’t make. One of the signings they did make, however, ...
Better Know a Cub: David DeJesus No Comments
David DeJesus is an interesting player. Although he’s never hit more than 13 home runs in a season, he’s always been a pretty useful player. He is not a prototypical RF ...
Better Know a Cub: Luis Valbuena No Comments
Luis Valbuena came to the Cubs in 2012 off of the waiver wire, one of a dozen or so pickups the Cubs’ had during the infancy of last season. Unlike most other wire pickups, though, ...
Better Know a Cub: Travis Wood No Comments
Travis Wood is traveling in the wrong direction.
Wood made his debut in the majors in 2010, throwing 102.2 innings of 3.51 ERA ball. He wasn’t lucky, either: his FIP was 3.42. ...
Better Know a Cub: Darwin Barney No Comments
Darwin Barney is an odd duck. He doesn’t get on base all that often (.299 OBP last year, .305 career). He has no power (7 HR last year is more than double the amount he has hit ...
Cubs sign Anibal Sanchez No Comments
According to Bob Nightengale, the Cubs have signed Anibal Sanchez to a 5-year, $75 million-ish contract.
And the #Cubs turn out to be the second mystery team of the day, reaching agreement ...
Better Know a Cub: Hector Rondon No Comments
The Rule V draft affected the Cubs likely more than any other team in baseball this year. Theo & Co. lost Starling Peralta in the major league portion, and Michael Burgess/Matt ...
Better Know a Cub: Anthony Rizzo No Comments
Anthony Rizzo has packed a lot of bags. Drafted in the 6th round out of Stoneman-Douglas HS, Rizzo has been a part of 3 different organizations in 6 years, being traded in both 2011 ...
Better Know a Cub: Jeff Samardzija 1 Comment
The Cubs had an interesting draft in 2006. They had the 13th overall pick in the draft (they used it on Tyler Colvin, now with the Rockies). Then, they didn't pick again until the ...
Better Know a Cub: Welington Castillo No Comments
Coming into the 2012 season, the Cubs had an interesting catching debate, and it wasn’t for the starting job. Geovany Soto still had some of that old sheen on him, but behind ...
Better Know a Cub: Starlin Castro No Comments
As I try to re-boot this old blog, I thought it would be a good idea to include a post on each player on the Cubs 40-man roster as they enter it. Unfortunately for me (or fortunately, ...
Will a salary cap come to baseball because of these new billion dollar tv contracts? No Comments
Over the last couple years the Angels, Rangers, Astros and Padres have each signed billion dollar contracts with a network. The Dodgers appear to be on the verge of signing the most ...
The Highs And Lows of Kerry Wood’s Career 46 Comments
Chris Jaffe does an excellent job highlighting the best and worst of Kerry Wood's career on The Hardball Times. It's a long list and a fun read. I'll quote one here.
May ...
Kate Upton Dancing and a Cubs Bunting Tournament Update 121 Comments
I know everyone (particularly MO) is deeply concerned about how the bunting tournament is progressing, so here are the results as of a few minutes ago. I'd link to where I ...
Edwin Jackson, come on down (please) 18 Comments