According to CBS's Jon Heyman, Carlos Pena signed a 1-year, $7.25m deal with Tampa Bay today. Since Pena was a Type B free agent and declined the arbitration offer from the Cubs, the Cubs get a free sandwich round pick in this year's draft. In retrospect it's puzzling that Pena declined arbitration. He was paid $10m last year (though $5m …
Cubs sign 6 of 7 arbitration eligible players
The Cubs had 7 players who were arbitration eligible and on the day that teams and players must exchange arbitration figures, the Cubs signed all but Matt Garza. The Cubs’ six other arbitration-eligible players all agreed to one-year deals. DeWitt, who batted .265 in 121 games last season, will make $1.1 million in 2012, while Baker, who batted .269 in …
Garza Wants $10.225M, Cubs Offering $7.95M
Suddenly this afternoon, Jon Heyman’s Twitter feed was full of figures reflecting various arbitration-eligible players’ salary requests and their teams’ starting offers. The teams will have until sometime in early to mid-February to come to agreements and avoid the actual arbitration hearing. The arbitration cases can take place anywhere from February 1 to February 21 and a settlement can be …
Cubs arbitration-elgible players
The deadline for teams and players to submit arbitration figures is noon tomorrow, after which teams and players will have two weeks to try to avoid a hearing. So far 42 players have reached agreements for next year or beyond with their team. The Cubs have not worked out a deal with any of their arbitration elgible players yet. Here …
Cubs Fans Pissed About Plan That Has No Impact On Their Actual Lives
The 2012 Cubs Convention is in the books and probably the biggest revelation all weekend was that the Cubs plan to build a patio on top of a 70-foot LED display in the right field corner before the start of the season. As you can imagine, this did not play well at all with the “purists.” Assuming that is defined …
Joe Paterno speaks
Paterno contends that ignorance was the context with which he heard McQueary’s disturbing story in 2002. McQueary, sitting at Paterno’s kitchen table, told him that he had been at the football building late the evening before when he heard noises coming from the shower. “He was very upset and I said why, and he was very reluctant to get into …
Cubs to add 70-foot LED board to Wrigley
#Cubs announce they will add 70-foot LED board and patio deck to RF bleachers at Wrigley. — Patrick Mooney About time the Cubs took advantage of this revenue stream. I’m thinking 4900 square feet when I see that, but who knows what the dimensions are. It could be 70 by 20, but for now I’m hoping for something as large …
10 best pitching seasons in my lifetime
The only Cubs news is that the team has brought back Kerry Wood on a 1-year deal. The contract includes a club option for $3 million in 2013. Since there’s not much to talk about regarding the Cubs, I thought I’d post the 10 best pitching seasons in my lifetime as measured by rWAR. I was born in 1974, but …
Cubs Con 2012
I figured I would set this up as a thread to document my experiences at Cubs Convention 2012. Had to deal with tons of loud obnoxious Cubs fans and huge crowds for a few moments of “oooh, look at that guy” but I did get to meet and talk to Pat Hughes and that was pretty cool. Here’s the first …