Season review: Starlin Castro 50 Comments
Starlin Castro was one of four players to play in all 162 games in 2012. Adam Jones doing it is not all that surprising. He's relatively young. Ichiroi is a bit surprising considering ...
World Series Preview: San Francisco Giants (94-68) vs Detroit Tigers (88-74) 148 Comments
The Giants have home field advantage in this series thanks to All-Star Game MVP Melky Cabrera, who was suspended for PED violations and was left off the Giants playoff roster (his 50 ...
ALDS Series Preview: A’s vs. Tigers 45 Comments
The A's came from about a billion games back to win the AL West thanks to the Rangers cubbing the final month or so of the season. That's not to say the A's backed into ...
Series Preview: Detroit Tigers (28-32) at Chicago Cubs (20-40) 109 Comments
The Tigers were the easy favorite to dominate the mediocre AL Central. They added Prince Fielder to a team that won the division by fifteen games in 2011, forming a core of starts ...
Daily Facepalm | 1.25.12 1 Comment
Site news: at some point today we'll be moving from Joomla to WordPress. The site should not be down too long, but it will be down at some point. Once the site transfer is complete, ...
Tigers sign Prince Fielder to silly contract No Comments
The Tigers signed Prince Fielder to a 9 year, $214 million contract yesterday. Scott Boras did his client well in getting him nearly $24 million per year. My first thought when I heard ...
DFP: Brett’s Number 5 No Comments
Cinco City
Brett Jackson is the number 5 OF prospect in all of baseball, according to MLB.com's rankings. MLB.com also ranked two guys in the Cubs system, newly acquired Anthony ...
Can the Oliver projected standings be right? 146 Comments
At the bottom of The Hardball Time’s Oliver forecasts page they have the 2012 projected standings. They were updated yesterday, but I know this was done before the Brewers signed ...
How much is Prince Fielder worth? 261 Comments
We’ve talked a lot about Albert Pujols and taken a look at his value, but I don’t believe we’ve done so with Fielder. Apparently many executives think he’ll ...
How I learned to stop worrying and love the big contract 114 Comments
Alfonso Soriano‘s contract was an idiotic move that sank the Cubs into an economic impasse. I’d like to congratulate myself officially for expressing that sentiment for ...
How does losing Pujols and Fielder affect the Cardinals and Brewers? 166 Comments
The short answer to this question is that it doesn’t affect them that much. If the Cardinals were willing to spend $22.5 million on Pujols (10 year, $225 million offer) they still ...
Pujols is Coming, Tra La Tra La…. Wait, No He Isn't… 87 Comments
The Winter Meetings are always fun. Especially now that Twitter is a part of the rumor mongering, the GMs and agents can’t do anything without it being tweeted to a breathless ...
Winter Meetings Day 2 Open Thread ***UPDATED*** 176 Comments
Carlos Zambrano is convinced he’ll remain a Cub next year.
DALLAS — Carlos Zambrano has told friends that after meeting with Cubs President Theo Epstein a few weeks ago in ...
Cubs in on Pujols and Fielder 176 Comments
Per Robothal, the Cubs are pursuing both Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder. Not surprisingly, his sources say that the Cubs would rather go long-term with Pujols than Fielder. That’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
Congratulations to the Milwaukee Brewers 129 Comments
With the Cubs 5-1 win over the Cardinals yesterday, the Milwaukee Brewers won their first division title since the days of Harvey’s Wallbangers. Kudos to the Brewers front office ...
A look at Anthony Rizzo’s new contract 12 Comments