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    Winter Meetings Facepalm ***UPDATED*** 78 Comments

    The Winter Meetings are underway and even though the Cubs won't be that active, I wanted to keep up with what's going on with them. Kyuji Fujikawa It still appears as though ...
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    Cubs sign Kyuji Fujikawa 21 Comments

    The Cubs signed 32 year old Japanese free agent Kyuji Fujikawa to a 2-year deal worth $9.2 million. The contract includes a vesting option for 2015 depending on games finished that ...
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    Venezuelan league team was worse with Josh Vitters so they released him 51 Comments

    Josh Vitters had a decent season in AAA and then was ridiculously bad at the MLB level. He was playing the Venezuelan Winter League until yesterday when Leones del Caracas released ...

    Roster Reshuffling update 111 Comments

    The Cubs have transacted half a zillion minor moves in the last week. We'll take a page from Phil Rogers and use the +/- system, because it actually means something in this context ...

    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 ...
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    Season in review: Ian Stewart 109 Comments

    During the Winter Meetings the Cubs traded Tyler Colvin and DJ LeMahieu to the Rockies for Ian Stewart and Casey Weathers. Stewart would replace the departed Aramis Ramirez at 3rd base ...
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    Cubs “shifting gears” because we have to 53 Comments

    According to Paul Sullivan, the Cubs are going to shift gears with regards to what they're doing at 3rd base. You're not alone if that doesn't make any sense. Sveum says ...
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    The Cubs probably won’t be taking many walks for some time 13 Comments

    The Cubs 6.5% walk rate prior to last night's games was the lowest in baseball (league average 8.1%). The following Cubs with 150 PA or more are or were above league average: Geovany ...
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    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, ...
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    Worst Cubs offense ever? 114 Comments

    I was checking out Starlin Castro's disappointing offensive season on Fangraphs and thought I'd check to see where the Cubs rank offensively as a team. I didn't realize ...
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    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 ...
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    Potential deadline trades 56 Comments

    Nearly every player on the Cubs is a potential trade candidate so talking about each one would be exhaustive and pointless. Luis Valbuena is a trade candidate though why any team would ...

    Josh Vitters awaits call up 10 Comments

    I'm going to have more on Josh Vitters in the near future, but for now you can read an article on milb.com.  At a quick glance, Vitters' numbers — .302, 14 home ...
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    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 ...
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    Prospects who might be called up soon, part 1 38 Comments

    We're very close to the time of the season at which the Cubs guarantee that Anthony Rizzo, Brett Jackson and other prospects who could be called up won't become super-two players. ...
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    Series Preview: Boston Red Sox (31-32) at Chicago Cubs (21-42) 152 Comments

    Wait, the Red Sox have a losing record? That was a surprise to me. Pythagoras disagrees with their record, as they have a +26 run differential, second in the AL east and 4th in the ...
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    Koyie Hill DFA’d, Ian Stewart to DL, Welington Castillo & Luis Valbuena re-called 66 Comments

    The Cubs have made a few transactions and one of them might spell the end to his career. Koyie Hill was let go by the Cubs this past offseason and after about a dozen catchers were ...
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    Handling Starlin Castro 99 Comments

    The other day in San Francisco Starlin Castro lost track of the number of outs and failed to complete the second half of what may or may not have been a double play. As you'd expect, ...
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    Fortnightly Facepalm: 6.3.12 Draft, Soler, Baez, Garza, Dempster 65 Comments

    I guess there's something going on tomorrow? The MLB draft is tomorrow. The Cubs worked out possible first round picks Carlos Correa (SS) and Max Fried (P) earlier this week, and ...
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    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 ...