Series Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles (17-8) at Chicago Cubs (9-16) 71 Comments
The Dodgers have the best record in the National league, and are only one win off of Tampa's 18-8 mark for the best in baseball. A big part of that is Matt Kemp, who is making ...
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (6-13) at Philadelphia Phillies (9-10) 102 Comments
The Cubs finally got their first series win of the year! Things are looking up….except that they just barely avoid having the worst record in the NL (mostly due to opportunity ...
Series Preview: St. Louis Cardinals (11-5) at Chicago Cubs (4-12) 83 Comments
Well, at least the Cubs aren't the worst team in baseball right now. That honor goes to the Royals, who are 3-12 and have lost ten games in a row. But at least they have a farm ...
Series Preview: Cincinnati Reds (5-8) at Chicago Cubs (3-10) 38 Comments
The Cubs aren't the only NL Central team that's scuffling early on. The Reds were a somewhat populat favorite to win the central this year with Pujols gone and Carpenter hurt ...
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (2-5) at St. Louis Cardinals (5-2) and Mini-Daily Facepalm 79 Comments
Yesterday's game
Before the game I said all they had to do was beat the Brewers best pitcher, and they did. I was stuck in a tedious meeting for most of the game but I surreptitiously ...
Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers (1-2) at Chicago Cubs (1-2) 57 Comments
The Brewers dropped their opening series to the Cardinals, losing to Jaime Garcia and Lance Lynn in three relatively high-scoring games. The Cubs, meanwhile, did their best to try ...
How good is the Cubs rotation? 177 Comments
Player
IP
Matt Garza
193
Ryan Dempster
188
Paul Maholm
165
Chris Volstad
155
Jeff Samardzija
122
The Cubs opening day rotation is set with news that Randy Wells and ...
Other transformed Cubs 129 Comments
With Jeff Samardzija's "transformation" I thought it would be fun to find other Cubs player who have transformed this spring.
Joe Mather: With a .412/.455/.745 batting ...
Wells and Wood optioned to minors, Clevenger over Castillo 37 Comments
I'd much rather have seen Randy Wells in the Chicago Cubs rotation, but rather than bullpenning him the Cubs have at least done the only other smart thing possible by optioning ...
Did the Cubs really add that much depth? 79 Comments
Over on Cubs Den (a really good blog), John talks about how the Cubs have quietly built depth to give them trade flexibility. I want to look at his bullets one by one because I just ...
Daily Facepalm 3.26.12 35 Comments
Anything interesting happen over the weekend?
Eh. Dempster was knocked around in a minor league game yesterday, but who knows if he was working on something. I missed yesterday's ...
Projecting the 2012 Cubs – Randy Wells 106 Comments
Somehow Jeff Samardzija has more upside than Randy Wells, despite the fact that Wells posted back to back 3 WAR seasons in 2009-2010 before last year's injury rattled season. Wells ...
Cherry Picking 40 Comments
In the final 14 appearances one season, he threw 74 innings, allowed only 50 hits and posted a sparkling ERA under 2. After the season fans were excited about what this pitcher could ...
Projecting the 2012 Cubs: Chris Volstad 104 Comments
It looks like Chris Volstad has the last rotation spot locked up. If you looked up "serviceable" in a dictionary there would probably be a picture of Volstad next to it. ...
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 3.19.12 – Weekend of Samardzija 233 Comments
Playing Time Projections
Please take a few moments to fill out the 2012 Cubs playing time projections. It's as simple as possible.
Weekend practice game roundup
Geovany Soto homered, ...
Projecting the 2012 Cubs: Jeff Samardzija 58 Comments
Since Jeff Samardzija is now a "near-lock" to make the rotation, per Dale Sveum. Let's take a look at his projections for 2012. Just about everyone projected him as a ...
Where We Stand Now: Starting pitching 24 Comments