An early look at the 2013 rotation 36 Comments
Assuming health, the Cubs rotation appears to be set with Matt Garza, Jeff Samardzija, Travis Wood, Scott Baker and Scott Feldman. I was curious what we could reasonably expect from ...
Bimillenial Facepalm – 11.2.1 105 Comments
Cubs "losing" a bunch of players to free agency/waivers
Team MVP Shawn Camp was the only officially official free agent on the roster, but a few other players have opted ...
Cubs offseason begins now 26 Comments
The end of the World Series marked the start of the baseball offseason. We'll hear tons of rumors over the next few month, some of them may even have to do with the Cubs. Most of ...
Arbitration salary projections for the Cubs No Comments
MLBTR has posted their salary projections for the Cubs arbittation eligible players. The projections are done by Matt Swartz who did a bunch of math and came up with a system to estimate ...
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (51-82) at Washington Nationals (81-52) 40 Comments
Team Overviews
Cubs
Nats
wRC+
78 (16th)
98 (4th)
BSR
-0.7 (9th)
-15.5 (16th)
UZR
19.1 (3rd)
19.5 (2nd)
DRS
-5 (9th)
-3 (7th)
SP FIP-
104 (11th)
86 (1st)
RP FIP-
113 ...
Series Preview: Iowa Cubs of Chicago (46-70) at Cincinnati Reds (71-47) 40 Comments
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Series Preview: Houston Astros (38-78) at Chicago Cubs (44-69) 97 Comments
The Cubs are 7.5 games out of the top pick in the 2013 draft, and can pick up some ground on the loss-leading Astros in this series. The Cubs have done their part, going 2-11 over ...
Series Preview: Cincinnati Reds (66-45) at Chicago Cubs (43-66) 20 Comments
Riding an eight game losing streak and consecutive sweeps on the west coast, the Cubs continue their upset bid to take the number one pick away from the Houston Astros. The Reds, meanwhile, ...
Revisiting the Cubs offseason transactions 66 Comments
Since the Cubs changed management this past offseason I thought it might be fun to look back at the transactions and see how they've turned out so far. Keep in mind these are a ...
The Children Are Our Future – Minor League Update Sponsored by TGI Friday’s 1 Comment
AZL Cubs
Shawon Dunston, Jr.'s minor league career has not gotten off to a fast start. He was 0-4 last night. After spending 71 plate appearances at Boise he was demoted to the ...
Paul Maholm on possibility of Pirates trading for him 9 Comments
Paul Maholm was asked about rumors the Pirates may be interested in him last night in Pittsburgh and he had this to say:
“It would be ironic to leave as a free agent and then ...
Dodgers propose trade for Ryan Dempster 68 Comments
Bruce Levine is reporting that the Cubs have received a trade proposal for Ryan Dempster though the specifics are unknown.
CHICAGO — The Los Angeles Dodgers have proposed ...
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (29-49) @ Atlanta Braves (41-37) 130 Comments
The red hot Chicago Cubs travel to Atlanta fresh off sweeping the super-talented Houston Astros. The Braves lost 2 of 3 to the Nationals over the weekend.
Teams at a glance
Stat
Cubs
Braves
wOBA
.297
.317
wRC+
80 ...
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 ...
Geovany Soto to the DL, Chris Volstad Option to AAA 143 Comments
Geovany Soto has a tear in the meniscus in his left knee and will or already has undergone arthroscopic knee surgery. He'll be out at least 3 weeks. Blake Lalli was called up to ...
Short Series Preview for a Short Series: 48 Comments
The Cardinals are good. The Cubs are not. Here's a look at the matchups for this quick series in St. Louis
Monday: Ryan Dempster, RHP (1.02, 2.16, 2.80, 3.83) vs Jake Westbrook, ...
Series Preview – Chicago Cubs (13-18) vs Milwaukee Brewers (13-18) 57 Comments
I liked the Brewers chances of winning the NL Central this year, even without Fielder, given the loss of Pujols and Carpenters injuries and my general distrust of the Reds pitching ...
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 ...
That revamped Cubs rotation 96 Comments