There are plenty of articles to link to regarding Kyle Hendricks’ desire to pitch past this season and how it won’t likely be with the Cubs. As well as no longer being an “only one team” Immaculate Grid selection, this is going to be the last piece of the 2016 World Series championship group saying goodbye. Kyle will come back …
PCA the Madman
There was probably a Tom Tango Twitter thread (or a blog even) that said that home run robberies were pretty much “routine catches” or whatever. I’m too lazy and disinterested to find it now, but after last night’s performance (particularly on defense), at least FanGraphs decided to give Pete Crow-Armstrong his due: Despite having played just 106 games so far, …
Welcome Ben Brown
As you all know, Justin Steele got hurt and now a new guy gets his spot: Naturally the Cubs will have their official social media tweet soon, but this has been confirmed by multiple Cubs beat folks so we should expect Ben Brown in uniform sometime soon, possibly even tonight if he got to town soon after Steele got off …
Jordan Wicks Was Pretty Good
Possibly an understatement 👀🔥⚾️ He looks like he could help you with your taxes and will too. Re: the now legendary mound visit:
Welcome to the Cubs, Dansby Swanson
Yeah this is pretty officially official now: And also out on the Wrigley Field marquee: While the Cubs couldn’t swoop in and sign Carlos Correa too because Steve Cohen is a rich crazy bastard, this roster has a chance to be more respectable than the last one we were led to believe would also be respectable (spoiler: it was not, …
Allow Yourself a Modicum of Positivity
The Cubs officially announced the Jameson Taillon signing today: It seems Taillon had a Zoom session with the beat folks that was also open to fans, so there’s a snippet here: Taillon had a lot of nice things to say about his experience during the recruiting process, the excitement he felt with being able to work with the Cubs Pitch …
Addison Russell maybe fixed it
View PostThe Cubs’ Secret Prospect (+ Gameday, Cubs/Sox, 5/11/2018)
In the 2016 MLB Draft, the Cubs didn't draft a single player until pick 104 (and I'm not telling you who that was until the end of this article – trivia. yay!). With the possible exception of that 3rd round draft pick, there are exactly zero players that you would expect to rise to the level of "MLB-prospect," and you'd be …
Is it time to shake up the infield?
The Cubs' offense has been incredible this year. Among starters, the OPS+ for each starter, in descending order: 193 181 173 128 117 115 (Jason Heyward!) 67 44 The astute reader will note that there are two less-than-average bats in that lineup. The first is Anthony Rizzo, who has dealt with back issues this year and is, well, Anthony Rizzo. …