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What kids? 45 Comments

Every year the Cubs struggle the masses come out and say the Cubs should play the kids. It happens every single time. It happens when a veteran is struggling. It’s happened a ...

By dmick89 on September 28, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Caught Sleeping 51 Comments

Josh Harrison had an infield double in today’s game (click on the link to view the video). Below is a screen cap at the exact point that Harrison takes off for 2nd base. The ...

By dmick89 on September 2, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Aramis Ramirez caused the US debt downgrade (also, mini Cubs-Braves preview) 97 Comments

Cubs Legend Todd Hollandsworth shot his mouth off on the radio today (recap at HBT). Then you bring into question effort and that’s one thing in the game of baseball that really ...

By Berselius on August 12, 2011. Posted in Series Previews

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 ...

By dmick89 on July 25, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

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 ...

By dmick89 on July 23, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

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 ...

By dmick89 on July 22, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Mid-Season Good and Bad: Position Players 94 Comments

Last year over at Aisle 424, I decided that grading players on a scale of objectivity was ultimately dumb and subjective. But since it’s like a blog law that you have to do ...

By Aisle424 on July 11, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Aramis Ramirez is Due 169 Comments

With the news that Darwin Barney is now headed to the DL, I thought it would be “fun” to see if the Cubs could field an entire squad of players who have been on the DL this ...

By Berselius on June 15, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

What the Cubs may soon look like 212 Comments

The Cubs are 8.5 games out of first place and it’s just the first of June. Their pythagorean record is even worse than their actual 23-30 record. Pythag has them at 22-31. The ...

By dmick89 on June 1, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

These Cubs Are Not the 1997 Marlins 81 Comments

Dave Kaplan wrote a post on the CSN Chicago site where he poses the question: Will the Cubs follow Marlins’ blueprint? I clicked on it because I thought maybe, just maybe, he ...

By Aisle424 on May 24, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

The Cubs just aren't very good 194 Comments

About a quarter of the 2011 season is in the books and the Cubs have performed about as we expected overall. The pitching, particularly the rotation, has been worse than we thought. ...

By dmick89 on May 23, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Cubs Baserunning 2 Comments

Baseball Prospectus has their sortable statistics available for 2011 now. The first thing I checked out was the Cubs baserunning numbers since they’ve sucked at baserunning for ...

By dmick89 on May 21, 2011. Posted in Unobstructed Views

It's never too early to look ahead to next year 138 Comments

A few years ago I wouldn’t have considered writing something about looking ahead. The Cubs had the pieces in place to contend for as long as they were willing to supplement the ...

By dmick89 on May 18, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Grades so far: Infield 82 Comments

The Cubs are 33 games into their 2011 season and it seems a good time to check on how players are doing. I’ll break it into four parts. Click the link below to read more.

By dmick89 on May 9, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Cubs rWAR and fWAR No Comments

Most of you are at least somewhat familiar with WAR and how it works. I’d bet most of you are familiar that Fangraphs publishes their own WAR (fWAR) and Baseball Reference publishes ...

By dmick89 on May 8, 2011. Posted in Unobstructed Views

Should Starlin Castro move off shortstop? 45 Comments

After Starlin Castro‘s 3-error inning the other day a lot of talk began again about moving the 21-year old to 2nd base. It’s even been suggested that Darwin Barney (also ...

By dmick89 on May 1, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Cubs compared to their projections 137 Comments

I wrote this on Friday morning so it’s updated through Thursday’s games. I’m too lazy to update it to include Friday’s blowout loss. This is something I’ll ...

By dmick89 on April 22, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Obstructed View Opening Day Roundtable – part 1 77 Comments

Your fearless Obstructed View Executive Chairmen got together to discuss various topics related to the 2011 Cubs season. Here’s part one of our roundtable, that focuses on the ...

By Berselius on March 31, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

How bad is Koyie Hill? 68 Comments

Over the last two seasons Koyie Hill has posted a 51 wRC+ (weighted runs created, adjusted so that 100 is average like ERA+ and OPS+). wRC+, you may remember, uses wOBA. Oddly ...

By dmick89 on March 30, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Platooning 101 1 Comment

The day everyone has looked forward to is here. Obstructed View is no longer something we can hype though we had little to no intention of doing that. It just became fun to do it. Now ...

By dmick89 on March 25, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

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