Daily Facepalm 3.14.12 48 Comments
Practice Game recap
Chris Volstad pitched three strong inninngs yesterday, extending his spring training scoreless streak to six innings. As with Samardzija and the other starter candidates, ...
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 ...
What’s all this Jeff Samardzija starting crap? 63 Comments
I paid so little attention to Cubs baseball after the first few weeks that it's hard for me to believe that Jeff Samardzija threw 88 innings a year ago. I did know that however ...
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 2.23.12, Position Players report 194 Comments
Position players report to spring training today
Speaking of which, Mets manager Terry Collins is bitching yet again about players not reporting earlier than their report date. Pouliot ...
Daily Facepalm 2.22.12 116 Comments
We just have the point-after-try to kick, or something
Several months ago, we were on the "five yard line" in the Theo compensation situation. Since then we've crossed ...
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 ...
Cubs sign 6 of 7 arbitration eligible players 159 Comments
The Cubs had 7 players who were arbitration eligible and on the day that teams and players must exchange arbitration figures, the Cubs signed all but Matt Garza.
The Cubs’ six ...
Taking a closer look at the Cubs supersized rotation 105 Comments
The Cubs currently have 6 starting pitchers on the roster*. Those 6 include Matt Garza, Ryan Dempster, Paul Maholm, Travis Wood, Chris Volstad and Randy Wells. Jeff Samardzija ...
Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer have been busy 318 Comments
The Cubs were having a rather quiet offseason until December 23rd when they traded Sean Marshall. In a span of one month they’ve traded Marshall, DJ LeMahieu, Tyler Colvin, ...
Cubs trade Carlos Zambrano and a truckload of money to Marlins for Chris Volstad 48 Comments
You can follow MLB Trade Rumors for updates for now. I’ll be adding to this post, but figured we should have a new post to talk about it.
The Cubs traded Carlos Zambrano to the ...
Series Preview: Florida Marlins (43-48) at Iowa Cubs of Chicago (37-55) 148 Comments
After three days of not losing, the Cubs are back in the saddle again to play out the string on the rest of the season.
The Marlins have had a roller coaster of a season so far. As ...
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (17-23) at Florida Marlins (24-16) 14 Comments
The battle for 4th place is heating up, as the Pirates have topped the Cubs three game losing streak with a six game slide of their own. Luckily for the Pirates the Cubs are heading ...
Position Battles: Back-up Catcher 108 Comments