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  • Baseball Prospectus Top 10 Cubs Prospects 5 Comments

    Baseball Prospectus has released their version of the Cubs top 10 prospects. 1. OF Albert Almora 2. SS Javier Baez 3. OF Jorge Soler 4. RHP Arodys Vizcaino 5. 1B Dan Vogelbach 6. ...

    The Manager’s Record from the Bill James annual 10 Comments

    One of the first things I do when I get the Bill James Handbook is look at what's called The Manager's Record. It includes several statistic that the manager controls and it's ...

    Cubs offseason begins now 26 Comments

    The end of the World Series marked the start of the baseball offseason. We'll hear tons of rumors over the next few month, some of them may even have to do with the Cubs. Most of ...
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    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 ...
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    Epstein, Bush, and the coaching staff 27 Comments

    Theo Epstein talked Cubs a year after his hiring was official. One year ago, the Cubs had one player who projected as part of the core Epstein and Co. are trying to develop and that ...

    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    The Top 20 Cubs performances in a 2012 game 106 Comments

    I was curious which players had the best games in 2012 for this shitty team we follow. I used Win Probability Added (WPA) from Baseball Reference to compile the list. There's no ...

    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 ...

    Hoyer: we will have financial flexibility 233 Comments

    “We will have financial flexibility,” Hoyer said. “We’ve been diligent to make sure we do have flexibility and we’re efficient going forward. We’ll ...

    Brett Jackson has more strikeouts than Darwin Barney 17 Comments

    Brett Jackson has struckout 53 times in 125 plate appearances. Darwin Barney has struckout just 50 times in 540 plate appearances. Jackson has more strikeouts on the Cubs than all players ...
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    The Cubs will probably avoid losing 100 games 22 Comments

    The Cubs currently sit at 58-89 even though 2 weeks ago it looked like a sure thing that they would lose 100. But after the Cubs have won 7 of their last 11 games it's now looking ...

    Cubs have not signed Starlin Castro to 7-year extension ***UPDATED*** 39 Comments

    According to Enrique Rojas of ESPN the Cubs have signed Starlin Castro to a 7-year extension worth $60 million. Starlin Castro has agreed to a seven-year, $60 million contract extension ...
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    A reasonable contract extension for Starlin Castro 31 Comments

    #reminder { background: #BECDC6; padding: 6px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 12px 8px 12px; } Contest reminder: Don't forget to enter our contest to win The Essential Games of the ...

    Cubs working on extension with Starlin Castro 43 Comments

    According to Dave Kaplan, the Cubs are working on a long-term contract with Starlin Castro. With the focus of the Cubs management team of Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer clearly on a long ...
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    Starlin Castro’s Lineup Spot 35 Comments

    Contest reminder: Don't forget to enter our contest to win The Essential Games of the Chicago Cubs DVD set. It runs through Sunday. This has nothing to do with talent, as Castro ...
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    Biannual Facepalm – 8.12.12 22 Comments

    Superfriends, amalgamate! The Superfriends added a new member to the Hall of Justice this week, poaching Padres scouting director Jaron Madison for the same position with the Cubs. ...
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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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    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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    Let’s play “What if” 81 Comments

    Starlin Castro has established himself at the big league level and he's going to get better. How much so? Who really knows, but even if he never got any better, he's still ...