World Series Preview: Texas Rangers (96-66) vs St. Louis Cardinals (90-72) 179 Comments
Before we get started, let’s just get this out of the way
GUYS, did you know that the World Series isn’t really all that worldy? A bunch of literal people on the Internet ...
Series Preview: St. Louis Cardinals (90-72) vs Philadelphia Phillies (102-60) 169 Comments
St. Louis squeaked its way into the playoffs thanks to a late-season collapse by the Braves. Again, I find it crazy that there are 2 NL Central teams in the playoffs.
Team Overviews
Team ...
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 ...
Series Preview: Detroit Tigers (95-67) vs New York Yankees (97-65) 188 Comments
This series already began in disappointment, as the marquee matchup between extremely likely Cy Young winner Justing Verlander and C.C. Sabathia was suspended due to rain in the second ...
Series Preview: Tampa Bay Rays (91-71) at Texas Rangers (96-66) 120 Comments
I’m going to write my usual previews for each of the playoff series. I’ll say flat out that I don’t follow the AL at all, so any of you Rays fans who aren’t ...
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (64-82) at Cincinnati Reds (71-75) 172 Comments
The Cubs played the Reds just last week, and five of the six starters from that series are pitching this series. I’m just going to make a few minor tweaks to the last preview ...
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (62-81) at New York Mets (70-73) 138 Comments
Have the Cubs even played the Mets this year? I can’t remember (laughing). Apparently the Cubs took two out three from them behind strong performances from Demp and Z.
Team Overview
Cubs
Mets
wOBA
.315 ...
Series Preview: Zambranoless Cubs (53-68) Bournless and Penceless Astros (38-83) 174 Comments
This is the hardest series preview I’ve ever had to write.
It’s also the third series preview I’ve ever had to write, but even if it were the 287th, I’m pretty ...
Series Preview: Washington Nationals (55-59) at The Untouchables (49-66) 127 Comments
Now that the winning streak is over, time to get started on a new losing streak. Not only did the Cubs gain no meaningful ground on the Brewers, who were also playing quite well in ...
Series Preview: Cincinnati Reds (54-57) at Chicago Cubs (47-65) 147 Comments
BREAKING NEWS: I heard the 49ers are shopping Taylor Mays
Just 18 more wins in a row until the Cubs are back at .500! It’s Gonna Happen.
Where have things gone wrong with the ...
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (43-65) at Pittsburgh Pirates (54-52) 230 Comments
The Untouchables (h/t @thecubreporter) head to Pittsburgh to lose in beautiful PNC Park. Pittsburgh improved itself at the deadline by adding former foes Derrek Lee and Ryan Ludwick ...
Batman-abbreviated Series Preview: Iowa Cubs of Chicago (42-63) at St. Louis Cardinals (55-50) 52 Comments
I was going to write a longer preview, but I got sucked into this whole “Batman Equation” thing that was running around the internets today
I tried reproducing the ...
Series Preview: Iowa Cubs of Chicago (42-60) at Milwaukee Brewers (54-49) 131 Comments
Team Matchups
NL ranks in parens
Cubs
Brewers
wOBA
.316 (7th)
.322 (6th)
UBR
-11.6 (16th)
-3.6 (13th)
UZR
-17.7 (13th)
4.7 (5th)
SP FIP
4.07 (10th)
3.71 (7th)
RP FIP
4.05 ...
Series Preview: Florida Marlins (43-48) at Iowa Cubs of Chicago (37-55) 148 Comments
After three days of not losing, the Cubs are back in the saddle again to play out the string on the rest of the season.
The Marlins have had a roller coaster of a season so far. As ...
Series Preview: Iowa Cubs of Chicago (36-53) at Pittsburgh Pirates (45-42) 145 Comments
I was going to write a longer preview for this series, but I saw the Cubs probable pitchers and gave up.
Friday: Rodrigo Lopez
Saturday: TBA
Sunday: Ramon Ortiz
Saturday will probably ...
Series Preview: Chicago White Sox (40-42) vs Iowa Cubs of Chicago (34-48) 282 Comments
Somehow the White Sox are hovering around .500 despite the vortex of suck that is their offense. As @rotopat pointed out on Twitter yesterday, Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw has more ...
Series Preview: Reigning Champs (44-34) vs Iowa Cubs of Chicago (32-46) 195 Comments
I knew that today’s first game is a makeup game, but I was wondering how that worked out. The “typical” schedule, at least as I have always assumed it, was more or ...
Series Preview: Iowa Cubs of Chicago (30-44) vs Kansas City Royals (31-44) 91 Comments
For a while there it looked like the Royals might contend in the weak AL central. Much like the Cubs they got off to a decent enough start to the season and had a winning record as ...
Series Preview: Iowa Cubs of Chicago (29-42) at Chicago White Sox (35-38) 100 Comments
I’m surprised to see the White Sox with a near-.500 record. Last I remember seeing any news of them, they were mired in a crappy start to the season, and new acquisition Adam ...
