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 …
Cubs and Bloomberg create new player evaluation system
The Cubs and Bloomberg Sports have parterned to create a new player evaluation system, which I would think would be similar to the one Theo had in Boston (Carmine). The Cubs are using every potential avenue to improve their club. Chicago announced Thursday that it will partner with Bloomberg Sports — a company already allied with MLB.com for fantasy baseball …
Another shitty Cubs season in review: Geovany Soto
After a sophomore slump in 2009, Geo made progress in putting the Rick Wilkins comparisons behind him by posting a .385 wOBA in 2010, even better than his ROY-winning season in 2008. Unfortunately, 2011 turned out to be more like 2009. Soto was projected to be the best hitter on the team with a .363 wOBA. He finished the year …
Platoon Splits Projections
A couple of years ago berselius used the information in The Book on splits to create a splits projeciton tool. I'm pretty sure this is the tool that SG used on RLWY to provide splits projections. He may have modified it since, but I thought we should look at the Cubs splits projections to see how many possible platoons we …