Cinco City Brett Jackson is the number 5 OF prospect in all of baseball, according to MLB.com's rankings. MLB.com also ranked two guys in the Cubs system, newly acquired Anthony Rizzo and Dan Vogelbach, as the number 1 and number 10 1B prospects. In related news: MLB is ranking prospects. Of what value is this to anyone beyond good PR? …
Daily Facepalm
New Feature Since the proliferation of blogworthy Cubs news and content seemingly never ceases to exceed the capacity of this blog and threatens to overwhelm the bandwidth of even the most casual Cubs fan, we here at the Obstructed View corporate offices decided it was time to have a daily dump of Cubs crap bulletin of Cubs-related goodness and general …
Another shitty Cubs season in Review: Matt Garza
Although the Cubs were weren't any good in 2011, Matt Garza was one of the few Cubs who impressed. Acquired in a blockbuster trade last winter, the Cubs, media and the fans had high expectations entering the season. Not only did he live up to those expectations, he surpassed them. The Cubs and Garza exchanged arbitration salaries a few days …
Carlos Pena ——> TB, Sandwich Round Pick ———-> Cubs
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 …