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A Two-Week Season: The Dale Sveum Chicago Cubs 43 Comments
I know the numbers don't mean a ton at this point in the season; eleven games does not a representative sample make, especially not for any one player. And as a team, there's ...
Journeymen of Tomorrow: 4-13-13 10 Comments
Albuquerque Isotopes 1 @ Iowa Cubs 6
Logan Watkins had a great day. He collected another 2 walks and a HR en route to a 1-3, 2 R, 2 RBI day. Watkins WAS caught stealing, though. Brett ...
Journeymen of Tomorrow: Week 2 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 ...
Kyuji Fujikawa placed on DL 36 Comments
The Cubs new closer, Kyuji Fujikawa has been placed on the 15-day DL. He has what they're calling a right forearm strain.
"It can't get worse right now and being in an ...
Journeymen of Tomorrow: 4-12-13 18 Comments
Albuquerque Isotopes 15 @ Iowa Cubs 5
This game was ugly. I'll start with the only bright spot: Logan Watkins went 0-2 with 3 walks. That's kind of cool. Brett Jackson 2.0 went ...
Journeymen of Tomorrow: 4-11-13 127 Comments
Iowa Cubs 0 @ Round Rock Express 2
In Brooks Raley’s first start of the season he allowed a bunch of hits, didn’t strike many out and walked nearly as many as he struckout. ...
Series Preview (and game thread): Giants (6-3) at Cubs (3-5) 82 Comments
The Cubs will get a whiff of success this weekend, and it will probably be coming from the other dugout. (Blatantly plagarized from Brett's preview blurb at Bleacher Nation, because ...
Journeymen of Tomorrow: 4-10-13 75 Comments
Iowa Cubs 3 @ Round Rock Express 2
The Cubs got their first win of the season behind a decent start from Drew Carpenter. Carpenter pitched 5 innings, allowed 3 hits and walked 2 while ...
Better Know a Cub: Nate Schierholtz 37 Comments
When Nate Schierholtz signed with the Cubs, he was coming off of two pretty identical seasons:
G
PA
AB
HR
AVG
OBP
SLG
OPS
OPS+
2011
27
SFG
NL
115
362
335
42
93
22
1
9
41
7
4
21
61
.278
.326
.430
.756
114
144
5
4
0
2
3
2012
28
TOT
NL
114
269
241
20
62
8
5
6
21
3
2
23
46
.257
.321
.407
.728
104
98
1
1
1
3
2
That ...
Journeymen of Tomorrow: 4-9-13 35 Comments
Iowa Cubs 2 @ Round Rock Express 4
The Iowa Cubs are off to a fantastic 0-6 start after losing yet again last night.
Chris Rusin threw 6 innings and allowed 7 hits and 4 runs. He walked ...
Jim Callis on Albert Almora 51 Comments
Baseball America's Jim Callis answered a reader's question in one of his recent articles. Asked which of Albert Almora, Jorge Soler, David Dahl and Yasiel Puig had the the best ...
Cubs minor leaguers compared to league median age 27 Comments
Baseball America was nice enough to publish the median age for each league in the minor leagues. This is useful information. We often talk about a prospect being young or old for his ...
Chance to win $200 gift card at The Outside Corner on Bloguin 4 Comments
We're glad that we're among your go to destinations for Cubs blogs. Despite my occasional attempts to cover MLB more thoroughly, it ends up failing. Since we don't cover ...
Jackie Robinson’s not so friendly departure from baseball 1 Comment
Great article on how alienated Jackie Robinson was from baseball at the end of his life. Very sad.
Robinson never bothered to hide his antipathy toward the game he had done so much ...
Journeymen of Tomorrow: 4-8-13 23 Comments
Iowa Cubs 5 @ Round Rock Express 13
Barrett Loux got the start for the Cubs and he didn't last long. Only an inning. He gave up 3 hits and 3 walks. All of the baserunners scored. ...
Series Preview: Brewers (1-5) at Cubs (2-4) 60 Comments
The Cubs open their first homestand against a team that is in even worse shape than they are. The Brewers are already missing first basemen Corey Hart and Mat Gamel due to injuries ...
Journeymen of Tomorrow: 4-7-13 21 Comments
Iowa Cubs 3 @ Albuquerque Isotopes 7
Nick Struck walked none, but only struck out 1 and scattered 8 hits across 4 innings en route to a 4 ER performance. Casey Coleman picked up where ...
Prospect Profile: Ben Wells 16 Comments
After we started doing the minor league recaps, I quickly noticed that Ben Wells was absent from the list. He's certainly not the best pitching prospect the Cubs have, but he might ...
Prospect Profile: Nick Struck 9 Comments