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    Travis Wood is to Pitching as Natalie Wood is to Swimming 114 Comments

    Travis Wood sucks.  He started the day with a 20.50 ERA.  He was spotted a 7-0 lead before he took the mound.  He left after allowing the game to be tied by the 3rd inning. ...
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    Daily Facepalm 3.19.12 – Weekend of Samardzija 233 Comments

    Playing Time Projections Please take a few moments to fill out the 2012 Cubs playing time projections. It's as simple as possible. Weekend practice game roundup Geovany Soto homered, ...
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    Projecting the 2012 Cubs: Jeff Samardzija 58 Comments

    Since Jeff Samardzija is now a "near-lock" to make the rotation, per Dale Sveum. Let's take a look at his projections for 2012. Just about everyone projected him as a ...
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    Daily Facepalm 3.15.12 – Calling in Sick with March Madness 91 Comments

    Practice Game recap Travis Wood probably punched his ticket to Iowa yesterday, giving up six runs while only recording one out. Bullpen/tenth starter hopeful Casey Coleman also had ...
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    Position Battles: Back-up Catcher 108 Comments

    The Cubs roster is mostly set with a few exceptions. Welington Castillo and Steve Clevenger are battling it out for the back-up catcher spot. There's been this invented competition ...
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    Daily Facepalm 3.14.12 48 Comments

    Practice Game recap Chris Volstad pitched three strong inninngs yesterday, extending his spring training scoreless streak to six innings. As with Samardzija and the other starter candidates, ...
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    Daily Facepalm 3.9.12 – Volstad Good, Soriano Good, Marmol Bad 138 Comments

    Rotation battle news Chris Volstad followed up Jeff Samardzija's strong outing with three solid innings of his own yesterday. Volstad struck out three, walked none, and allowed ...
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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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    Carroll’s Team Health Reports 111 Comments

    For several years now Will Carroll has published Team Health Reports. He previously did so at Baseball Prospectus and now does so at SI. I've never been the biggest fan. It seems ...
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    Daily Facepalm 2.22.12 116 Comments

    We just have the point-after-try to kick, or something Several months ago, we were on the "five yard line" in the Theo compensation situation. Since then we've crossed ...
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    Pitch F/X Player Cards 65 Comments

    Brooks Baseball, with help from The Hardball Times, has created pitch f/x player cards. If you play around with Matt Garza's card you'll see that in his career he's thrown ...

    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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    Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer have been busy 318 Comments

    The Cubs were having a rather quiet offseason until December 23rd when they traded Sean Marshall. In a span of one month they’ve traded Marshall, DJ LeMahieu, Tyler Colvin, ...
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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 ...
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    Cubs close to trading Sean Marshall for Travis Wood? 59 Comments

    According to Bruce Levine the Cubs and Reds are close on a deal that would send Sean Marshall to the Reds for 24 year old left-handed starter Travis Wood and two minor leaguers. We ...

    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 (17-21) at Cincinnati Reds (23-17) 312 Comments

    It hasn’t been too long since we saw the Reds, but in that span of time they’ve gone from a mediocre record to the top of the NL Central division. A big part of it is that ...

    Series Preview: Cincinnati Reds (16-15) at Chicago Cubs (14-16) 23 Comments

    The Cubs went 4-3 on their trip out west, and a winning record on any such trip is a nice feat no matter the quality of the teams played. Today they start a 2 plus week stretch of games ...