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Another shitty Cubs season in review: Jeff Baker 35 Comments

Midway through the 2009 season the Cubs acquired Jeff Baker from the Rockies in exchange for Al Alburquerque. Alburquerque striked out a lot of batters, but walked more than his fair ...

By dmick89 on December 3, 2011. Posted in Commentary And Analysis, News And Rumors

Cubs news and rumors 289 Comments

Manager MILWAUKEE — The Cubs will meet Wednesday with Brewers hitting coach Dale Sveum about their vacant managerial position. Sveum was already scheduled to travel here to ...

By dmick89 on November 16, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

2012 Cubs ZiPS Projections, Part 1 83 Comments

Dan has already released the 2012 ZiPS for the Cubs so I thought I’d highlight several players and post them here. Player PA H HR BB K AVG OBP SLG wOBA Carlos Pena 522 101 28 82 145 .230 .355 .480 .360 Aramis ...

By dmick89 on October 29, 2011. Posted in Projections

Offseason Preview: Trade Candidates 87 Comments

Without even knowing what the Cubs general plan is going to be this offseason, it’s very difficult to look ahead to the offseason with any confidence of what they may do. They ...

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

Club option on Aramis Ramirez UPDATED 323 Comments

Since Aramis Ramirez has started hitting again and hitting it quite well, it seems more likely than not that the Cubs will keep him around next season. However, I don’t think ...

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

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

Bruce Levine's 5 most likely to be traded, yo 155 Comments

Happy Breaking Bad Day … bitch! After xoomwaffle posted this link to Levine’s article earlier today I started writing something and then lost interest about a half sentence ...

By dmick89 on July 17, 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

Which types of players have been injured? (UPDATED) 80 Comments

Fellow Cubs blogger Doc Blume opined in the comments to today’s article at LOHO that part of the Cubs injury issues stem from the roster being filled with players with questionable ...

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

The emptiest batting averages No Comments

Colin Wyers looks at batting average and BP’s True Average to find the players with the emptiest batting averages. Starlin Castro and Darwin Barney at the top 2 and former Cubs ...

By dmick89 on May 29, 2011. Posted in Unobstructed Views

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

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

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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