Postgame Thread: Cubs 5, Braves 1, Cubs Bullpen -5 23 Comments
The Cubs got a good start from Carlos Villaneuva, who struck out 6 and gave up one run in 6.2 innings. Rizzo and Valbuena homered off of Braves starter Julio Teheran, and Nate Schierholtz ...
Series Preview: Cubs (2-1) at Braves (2-1) 37 Comments
The Cubs somehow managed to scratch together enough runs to take a series from the Pirates. Now they head to relatively warm Atlanta for another three game set. Atlanta beat up on ...
Cubs Sign Scott Hairston 29 Comments
The Cubs have come to an agreement with outfielder Scott Hairston on a two year deal that could be worth up to six million dollars. The signing was originally reported by Ken Rosenthal ...
DBacks Want To Trade Upton or Kubel by Friday 6 Comments
Buster Olney is keeping tabs on the persistent logjam in the Arizona outfield. He has posted a few interesting tidbits via twitter today.
Folks involved in this process believe that ...
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 ...
Daily Facepalm – 11.8.12 41 Comments
The Cubs may or may not be discussing Justin Upton with the Dbacks.
It could go either way. Basically all there is to this report is Rosenthal saying that the Dbacks are having "active ...
An Upton family reunion in Chicago 61 Comments
While Brett Jackson will return to AAA next year thanks to a poor performance at the big league level, he will get another chance at some point. I'm just not sure it will be with ...
Season in review: Alfonso Soriano 21 Comments
Alfonso Soriano's projections entering the season (below) weren't anything special. It was a slightly below league average wOBA with expected poor defense and baserunning skills. ...
Season in review: David DeJesus 99 Comments
I was looking through our media library, and it looks like the only pictures we have of DeJesus in the system are of him in a Royals uniform, his wife, and his ridiculous truck. That's ...
A rough estimate of Justin Upton’s trade value 178 Comments
In the comments awhile back we were talking about the Cubs possibly going after Justin Upton. GW wrote about Towers postseason press conference in which he identified 3 areas the Dbacks ...
DBacks Looking for SS, Veteran SP, 3B 6 Comments
Awhile back we were kicking around trade ideas for Justin Upton from the Diamondbacks. GM Kevin Towers' postseason press conference confirms much of our speculation:
Towers identified ...
A reasonable contract extension for Starlin Castro 31 Comments
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Trade Deadline Rumors (Rangers acquired Dempster???, Russell, Garza, Camp, Baker, Webster, BJ Upton, Hope Monster, Buster Olney’s twitter account, Soriano staying put) 106 Comments
This was posted earlier. Updates will be added for the next few hours (scroll down).
According to Jon Heyman, Ryan Dempster has been traded to the Dodgers. More to come if ...
Podcasting the Cubs 24 Comments
Before gallivanting off to the hinterlands of Molina-esque interwebs, Berselius recorded a podcast with longtime reader, sometime commenter sitrick2. We talked the Cubs for about an ...
Series Preview: Arizona Diamondbacks (94-68) vs Milwaukee Brewers (96-66) 30 Comments
Milwaukee is already up 1-0 in this series but these things take too damn long for me to write to have this up before that happened (laughing). It’s hard to believe that there ...
The Ghosts of Free Agency Future 149 Comments