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    Daily Facepalm 3.13.12 76 Comments

    Practice game wrapup The Cubs knocked the eminently hittable Bronson Arroyo around in the first inning, capped off by an approximately 900 ft Alfonso Soriano HR (HR distance estimated ...
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    What’s all this Jeff Samardzija starting crap? 63 Comments

    I paid so little attention to Cubs baseball after the first few weeks that it's hard for me to believe that Jeff Samardzija threw 88 innings a year ago. I did know that however ...
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    Daily Facepalm 2.27.2012 | Still No Games 139 Comments

      Bunting Brackets Busted Tony Campana was beaten by Steve Clevenger. Not in a brutal nanosophobic assault, but in a bunting contest. You could easily take this news with dismay ...
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    Daily Facepalm – 2.17.12 33 Comments

    This week in Best Shape of His Life Geovany Soto dropped 25 pounds this offseason. If you recall, he also lost a lot of weight before his breakout 07/08 seasons. If you combine this ...
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    Daily Facepalm 2-8-2012: Numerology 129 Comments

    Campana's Number 1! With Fukudome now saving face in free agency, Tony Campana has claimed the number 1 spot in the jersey lottery. Still think he should be wearing 5/8, but whatevs. ...
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    Evaluating the Cubs likely lineup 99 Comments

    It's hard to believe that February is here, which means pitchers and catchers will be reporting to Mesa in a couple weeks. The position players won't be far behind. It's ...

    Taking a closer look at the Cubs supersized rotation 105 Comments

    The Cubs currently have 6 starting pitchers on the roster*. Those 6 include Matt Garza, Ryan Dempster, Paul Maholm, Travis Wood, Chris Volstad and Randy Wells. Jeff Samardzija ...
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    Is Brett Jackson the Cubs best outfielder? 35 Comments

    Back in April I wondered if Brett Jackson was one of the three best outfielders in the Cubs organization.  The conclusion at the time was that Jackson was certainly one of the ...
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    Complete rebuild, Cubs re-sign Reed Johnson, trade Sean Marshall 121 Comments

    The Cubs have re-signed Reed Johnson to a one-year contract. The contract is pending a physical. No word yet on the amount he was signed for, but I’m sure it’s under $2 ...

    What the Cubs have to consider at the Winter Meetings 81 Comments

    We haven’t talked a lot about what the Cubs need to do this offseason. When the season ended they were without a GM so it made no sense. After they hired Theo and he assembled ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    What kids? 45 Comments

    Every year the Cubs struggle the masses come out and say the Cubs should play the kids. It happens every single time. It happens when a veteran is struggling. It’s happened a ...

    Why the hell do people care if so and so plays in September? 199 Comments

    I’ve seen a lot of comments lately from Cubs fans upset that the Cubs are still playing the veterans (on other sites). Of course they are. What young player has pushed a veteran ...

    What are the 2011 Cubs good at? 181 Comments

    I wanted to look over various statistics to see what the Cubs were good at. It’s a bad team, but even bad teams excel at something. Right? Batting average is a useless statistic, ...

    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 ...

    Carlos Marmol and Kerry Wood working on stuff 82 Comments

    I’m not sure why it made me laugh, but I saw on cubs.com today that Kerry Wood was working on stuff to regain his form. CHICAGO — Kerry Wood has been a little inconsistent, ...

    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 ...
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    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 ...

    The Cubs just aren't very good 194 Comments

    About a quarter of the 2011 season is in the books and the Cubs have performed about as we expected overall. The pitching, particularly the rotation, has been worse than we thought. ...