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Opening Day postgame thread – Cubs 3, Pirates 1 47 Comments
Cubs win! The Cubs took an early lead on a first inning home run by Anthony Rizzo that still hasn't landed. Combine that with eight strong innings by Jeff Samardzija (two hits, ...
Obstructed View Season Predictions 55 Comments
Our long national nightmare is finally over! The Cubs play today at 1:35 ET, and at around 5:00 ET I will be drunk and the Cubs will be a game out of first place. Now that the season ...
74 win Cubs 7 Comments
RLYW posted their annual projections blowout this week. The Cubs win between 72 and 74 games with all the projections and average 74 wins.
Verlander. Got. Paid. 14 Comments
First, the details.
Verlander signed a 5-year, $140 million dollar extension today. It will pay him $28 million dollars a year in 2015 through 2019. There is a 2020 option at $22 million ...
Luis Valbuena: Not Very Good 57 Comments
In a few days, the Cubs will open regular season play with Luis Valbuena at 3B. Compared to the other options the Cubs have, he isn't that bad. Compared to other 3B, it's really ...
2013 Cubs overview at The Outside Corner 3 Comments
I wrote a piece breaking down the state of the organization for non-Cubs fans over at The Outside Corner, part of our old network Blogiun. Check it out. Or don't. Or give me a yacht. ...
PECOTA Percentiles are live No Comments
Baseball Prospectus has updated their player pages to show the PECOTA percentile forecasts.
PECOTA percentiles are now available to subscribers.
Those of you new to BP, or to PECOTA, ...
Replacement Level Unification! 10 Comments
Thankfully, replacement level means the same thing now from BRef and FanGraphs. This is a great thing and makes things a lot nicer.
OV Turns Two: Something Terrible This Way Comes. 117 Comments
Two years ago, having been conceived in the minds of commiserative suffering and gestated in the womb of indignant hope, Obstructed View was born. We celebrated the cerebral ...
Tim McCarver to retire 4 Comments
Tim McCarver will be retiring after the 2013 season. Good riddance.
In honor of our second anniversary, Mish put this together.
Your moment in Yahoo Sports! stupidity 4 Comments
Can you point out the error in this assessment of Ohio State's Final Four chances? I'll give you a hint in bold.
Ohio State
Region: West
Who they beat: No. 15 Iona, No. 10 ...
The 2008 Draft Retrospective 74 Comments
I think 5 years is a pretty good amount of time to review a draft class. That would put us at 2008 (well, it's 4.5 years, but close enough for me).
1/19: Andrew Cashner
This ...
OV Forum Update 9 Comments
When we first started our forum we used a plugin that didn't end up working well with a later theme we used so we switched to bbpress. In the process, about 2500 posts were lost, ...
Jim Leyland Just Wants to Chillax 6 Comments
From the "some of us suspected this all along" department:
The Tigers have yet to name a closer for the upcoming season. Rookie favorite Bruce Rondon has been erratic this ...
DiPS Game Score 32 Comments