Potential deadline trades 56 Comments
Nearly every player on the Cubs is a potential trade candidate so talking about each one would be exhaustive and pointless. Luis Valbuena is a trade candidate though why any team would ...
Updated End of Season Projections 21 Comments
Using Baseball Prospectus rest of season PECOTA projections I figured it might be fun to see just how many games the Cubs are expected to lose at this point. Since this is OV and we're ...
A 2013 Cubs Contender, Part 2 45 Comments
About 10 days ago we looked at what the Cubs have in terms of guaranteed contracts and we also signed Ryan Dempster and Matt Garza to long-term extensions. Since it's been 10 days ...
A 2013 Cubs Contender, Part 1 143 Comments
RC has been insistent about wondering how the Cubs may contend in 2013. I've been meaning to write something about it for some time, but can't help but think the Cubs are a ...
Cubs acquire Hunter Cervenka to complete Marlon Byrd trade 38 Comments
The Cubs and Red Sox completed the Marlon Byrd trade today as the Cubs acquired Hunter Cervenka. Cervenka is a 22 year old in A ball with a minor league ERA of 5.97. He has struck out ...
What’s wrong with Carlos Marmol? 33 Comments
Between 2007 and 2011, Carlos Marmol threw 382.1 innings and allowed a ridiculously low 218 hits. He allowed only 21 home runs and struckout 540 batters. That's the good Marmol.
During ...
10 Best Games By A Cubs Player So Far 27 Comments
We're only 31 games into the season, but I was curious for some unkown reason who had the best game of any player on the team. Win Probability Added (WPA) is the perfect stat for ...
Daily Facepalm – 4.6.12 35 Comments
Cubs game recap
The Cubs lost 2-1 to the Nationals yesterday. Ryan Dempster had an incredible start, striking out ten batters in 7.2 innings. Unfortunately, after he was relieved in ...
Daily Facepalm 4.3.12 144 Comments
Was there a Cubs game yesterday?
The Cubs hit roughly 37 sac flies to beat the DBacks yesterday, and drag their spring trianing winning percentage to .500. Clearly I should place a ...
Projecting the 2012 Cubs – Carlos Marmol 33 Comments
Marmol followed up his stellar 3 WAR 2010 season a much more heart-attacky 2011 season. Marmol's ten blown saves led all of baseball last year (tied with LAAoLAoDoQEoA's Jordan ...
Daily Facepalm 3.27.12 48 Comments
Practice Game Recap
Paul Maholm had a good outing, striking out six over five innings and allowing no runs. Carlos Marmol also pitched a scoreless inning in his first outing since ...
Daily Facepalm 3.22.12 288 Comments
Practice Game Recap
Not applicable. But Paul Maholm didn't get rocked by the Giants' A ball team. So there's that.
It's Gordo's World and We're Just Living ...
OV’s Projected Playing Time for the 2012 Cubs 79 Comments
On Saturday I published this year's playing time survey and more than 50 of you took the time to fill it out. Thanks for taking the time. I'm going to go ahead and publish the ...
Daily Facepalm 3.16.12 – Too Much Chalk Edition 36 Comments
Was there a Cubs game yesterday?
I was so in shock at Wisconsin's ability to score more than 60 points that I failed to pay attention to yesterday's games. It looks like it ...
Daily Facepalm 3.13.12 76 Comments
Practice game wrapup
The Cubs knocked the eminently hittable Bronson Arroyo around in the first inning, capped off by an approximately 900 ft Alfonso Soriano HR (HR distance estimated ...
Daily Facepalm 3.9.12 – Volstad Good, Soriano Good, Marmol Bad 138 Comments
Rotation battle news
Chris Volstad followed up Jeff Samardzija's strong outing with three solid innings of his own yesterday. Volstad struck out three, walked none, and allowed ...
Carroll’s Team Health Reports 111 Comments
For several years now Will Carroll has published Team Health Reports. He previously did so at Baseball Prospectus and now does so at SI. I've never been the biggest fan. It seems ...
Daily Facepalm 2.29.12 150 Comments
Cubs go from maybe thinking about extending Garza to thinking about extending Garza. Or possibly cloning him. It's not clear.
Hoyer (via Orange Guy):
“We have a good relationship ...
Daily Facepalm 2.20.2012 – They’re back. 143 Comments
Player Recently in the Best Shape of His Life: Carlos Marmol
Carlos Marmol dropped 515 pounds in the offseason. He dropped 15 of his own pounds and he dropped the 500-lb gorilla in ...
Let’s play “What if” 81 Comments