Combined post, cuz we need a new one OSS: Hayden Wesneski gives the pen a shot in the arm Three up: Three down: Next up: See below The Cubs head into another series with a team that gave them a bunch of crushing losses last season. The Marlins are struggling, to say the least. Pretty much their entire rotation is …
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (7-5) at Seattle Mariners (5-8)
The Cubs west coast trip continues with a trip to Seattle. The Mariners are yet another team that’s in the mix for a playoff spot this year, which says less about the Cubs relative scheduling than it does about the relative strength of the league, where there are only four, maybe five truly awful teams, and none of them are …
Series Preview: Colorado Rockies (1-3) at Chicago Cubs (1-2)
The Rockies were not a team that prognosticators had particularly high hopes for, but the Rockies opening series managed to look skyward to that already low bar. On Thursday, the Dbacks batted around twice vs Opening Day Starter Kyle Freeland, scoring 14 runs in a single inning. The Cubs are surely hoping to get their whacks in between series against …
Series Mini-Preview: Chicago Cubs (78-69) at Arid Zone Dbacks (76-72)
We just saw this team and I’m half asleep, so this will be even less preview content than usual (dying laughing). Pitching Matchups Friday: Justin Steele, LHP vs Brandon Pfaadt, RHP, 8:40 PM CT Saturday: Cyle Hendricks, RHP vs Zach Davies, RHP, 7:10 PM CT Sunday: Jordan Wicks, LHP vs Ryne Nelson, RHP, 6:10 PM CT Unlike the series last …
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (71-62) at Cincinnati Reds (69-66)
From on NL Central contender to another, whee. The Cubs face the Reds for the final (scheduled) series this year and it’s been a wild ride in the previous Reds series this year. The Cubs split two games with the Reds in early April before seeing the third game get rained out (and being made up today). The Cubs then …
Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers (73-57) at Chicago Cubs (69-61)
I guess I can get off my lazy but and bang out a preview for what’s likely the most significant series to date this year, with the Cubs four games back going into the series. The surging Cubs took care of business in a soft stretch of the schedule, only to see the Beers bang out an 8 game winning …
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (33-38) at Pittsburgh Pirates (34-36)
The last one of these I had time to write was for the Cubs-Reds series…hopefully this one goes a little better for the Cubs. As expected the Pirates have slid down the rankings after their hot start. Their overall team numbers are cromulent – position player WAR is about league average, starting pitching is just above average, and bullpen is …
Series Preview: Cincinnati Reds (21-29) at Chicago Cubs (22-27)
One reason that I like to write these is that it reminds me on a weeklyish basis what the Cubs record is (dying laughing). The Cubs still aren’t Five Backā¢ yet but there’s a lil cluster with the Reds and Cardinals for the division basement, which is not fun. Hopefully things get right in this series. The Reds offense has …
Series Preview: St. Louis Tire Fire (11-24) at Chicago Cubs (17-17)
I don’t even know what else there is to say about the dumpster fire in Cardinals-land. Will Oliver Marmol have a job by the end of the month? By the end of this series? The ‘play the game the right way’ nonsense with Tyler O’Neill was bad enough vibes, but then seeing the same pattern continue with this bananas Contreras …
Series Preview Take 2: Miami Marlins (16-16) vs Chicago Cubs (15-16)
Well, that was a road trip to forget. Going 1-6 with five one-run losses is not what you want. Still, I’m gonna be the boring guy and say I’m still not too needle-movey on my opinion of the team. Sometimes you flip a coin and it comes up tails a bunch of times in a row. Yes, the team is …