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    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 ...
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    Pitch F/X Player Cards 65 Comments

    Brooks Baseball, with help from The Hardball Times, has created pitch f/x player cards. If you play around with Matt Garza's card you'll see that in his career he's thrown ...
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    Does Carlos Marmol have any trade value? 99 Comments

    Since the Cubs are set to rebuild we may as well start taking a look at some of the players the Cubs might try to move in the next several weeks. Obviously Matt Garza has a lot of ...
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    Complete rebuild, Cubs re-sign Reed Johnson, trade Sean Marshall 121 Comments

    The Cubs have re-signed Reed Johnson to a one-year contract. The contract is pending a physical. No word yet on the amount he was signed for, but I’m sure it’s under $2 ...

    Kerry Wood wants a raise, but is he deserving of one? 128 Comments

    Jon Paul Morosi tweeted that Kerry Wood would like a raise. My first thought was this: why would the Cubs give him a raise if his only other option is to retire? Wood has said he’ll ...

    What the Cubs have to consider at the Winter Meetings 81 Comments

    We haven’t talked a lot about what the Cubs need to do this offseason. When the season ended they were without a GM so it made no sense. After they hired Theo and he assembled ...

    Cubs news and rumors 289 Comments

    Manager MILWAUKEE — The Cubs will meet Wednesday with Brewers hitting coach Dale Sveum about their vacant managerial position. Sveum was already scheduled to travel here to ...

    Another shitty Cubs season in review: Alfonso Soriano 69 Comments

    Alfonso Soriano hit 10 home runs and slugged .613 in April. Over the remaining five months he hit 16 home runs and slugged .435. Although he had a very good April, his OBP was only ...

    Theo is a Cub so what next? 153 Comments

    When the reports of Theo Epstein signing with the Cubs began to trickle in this morning (or actually last night), I started thinking about what it means in the short-term for the Cubs. ...
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    Another shitty Cubs season in review: Randy Wells 96 Comments

    The 2011 Cubs posted the 109th worst winning percentage in its history. What’s really depressing about that is since I’ve been a fan the following Cubs teams have been as ...

    A thought or two about Carlos Marmol 178 Comments

    I didn’t make it a secret that I thought the Cubs 3-year extension given to Carlos Marmol last offseason wasn’t a wise decision. Despite that, I made it clear that Marmol ...

    Offseason Preview: Trade Candidates 87 Comments

    Without even knowing what the Cubs general plan is going to be this offseason, it’s very difficult to look ahead to the offseason with any confidence of what they may do. They ...

    Is Sean Marshall the best reliever on the Cubs? 26 Comments

    I know I’m not the first person to ask this question and with Carlos Marmol‘s recent meltdown, probably not even the first to ask it in the last few days. We can ignore ...

    BABIP Regression 148 Comments

    Prior to the Cubs signing Carlos Marmol to a 3-year extension this past offseason, there was a lot of talk about how Marmol was one of those guys who could have a very low BABIP. His ...

    The Cubs and their trade deadline decisions 243 Comments

    Last week we had a heated debate and/or argument on here about the decisions the Cubs made about not trading certain players. I wanted to write something about this immediately, but ...

    2012 NL Central Champion Cubs, part 3 179 Comments

    Wreckard took a look at how the 2007 Cubs improved compared to the 2006 team and what kind of improvements this current team would need to make for next year. In the first part of ...
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    OV Pic of the Day: Some People REALLY Don't Like Houston 249 Comments

    It was a banner day at Wrigley.  The Cubs won, Carlos Marmol didn’t completely implode, and there were a couple of homeruns.  There was also an actual banner.  I ...

    2012 NL Central Champion Cubs, part 2 51 Comments

    In part 1 we found that there were currently 13 players on the Cubs roster that the Cubs want to keep assuming they try to contend next year, which they will. We left off talking briefly ...

    2012 NL Central Champion Cubs, part 1 42 Comments

    As much as I’ve written about the need to rebuild, it’s not going ot happen. The Cubs have some decent players on their roster and some you’d really like to get rid ...

    Carlos Marmol and Kerry Wood working on stuff 82 Comments

    I’m not sure why it made me laugh, but I saw on cubs.com today that Kerry Wood was working on stuff to regain his form. CHICAGO — Kerry Wood has been a little inconsistent, ...