The start to Matt Garza‘s career as a Cub has not gone as planned. After giving up Chris Archer, Robinson Chirinos, Hak-Ju Lee, Brandon Guyer and Super Sam Fuld, the Cubs Cubs were expecting big things from Garza. He’d been a very good pitcher for a few years now and was moving from the AL East to the NL Central. …
Chicago Cubs @ Colorado Rockies, 7:40 pm
I had wanted to start using Base Runs instead of using wRC to calculate runs, but I need to look things over before I publish them. Hopefully tomorrow. Cubs wOBA wRC RS Rockies wOBA wRC RS Starlin Castro .332 .524 -0.03 Dexter Fowler .347 .580 -0.03 Darwin Barney .293 .365 0.00 Jonathan Herrera .298 .383 0.02 Marlon Byrd .338 .518 …
I just checked and Barry Bonds is still the home run leader
As you all know by now, Barry Bonds was convicted two days ago for hitting too many home runs. It’s a serious offense in modern America. Punishment has not yet been handed down and no precedent exists. It’s believed Bonds will be get a spanking for each of the 13 home runs he hit above Babe Ruth. There’s still much …
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (6-6) at Colorado Rockies (10-2)
Team Overview The Cubs head to the thin air of Colorado to face the team with the best record in baseball. Here are their numbers so far on the season (NL rank in parens) Rockies Cubs wOBA .337 (4) .333 (5) SP FIP 4.52 (14) 4.35 (11) RP FIP 2.77 (3) 3.42 (7) DRS 12 (1) -11 (13) I started …
Cubs Now Getting Beat in Marketing Overhype Department Too
Just when I thought the Cubs were best at something, along comes another team to take away their prize. I didn’t think any team anywhere could top the Cubs in over-hyping players the way Vine Line and Cubs.com and Ricketts’ puppet blogger have in the past, but they are going to have to step up their game to catch up …
Chicago Cubs @ Houston Astros
Time: 7:05 pm CTGamedayB-Ref Preview Cubs wOBA wRC RS Astros wOBA wRC RS Starlin Castro .332 .556 -0.13 Michael Bourn .307 .451 0.03 Darwin Barney .293 .385 0.03 Angel Sanchez .287 .362 -0.07 Marlon Byrd .338 .560 -0.01 Hunter Pence .342 .573 -0.01 Aramis Ramirez .350 .590 -0.03 Carlos Lee .338 .546 -0.05 Jeff Baker .312 .431 -0.01 Brett Wallace …
Cubs Player Power Rankings
There are plenty of places you can go to read team power rankings for all of Major League Baseball. I believe most respectable bloggers and journalists are required by the code of moot speculation to incite as many arguments as possible by haphazardly or systematically arranging the teams from best to crappiest. Two things prevent me from doing that: a) …
Top. Men.
I don’t think anyone featuring as many as two functioning brain cells actually thought James Russell’s start would go well. I’d be willing to bet that Russell himself probably told his family not to bother DVRing it. Yet, somehow, some way, the Cubs managed to reveal their one true talent and let it shine for all to see as they …
Cubs offense as bad as we thought despite Albert Pujols leading off every inning
Through 11 games the Cubs have scored 45 runs. It should be understood that this is a small sample size. That being said, the Cubs have played eight games against pretty bad teams and only three games against a team anyone thinks will come close to finishing at .500 or above. Nearly five of those games have come against the …
Chicago Cubs @ Houston Astros
Time: 7:05 pm CTGamedayB-Ref Preview Cubs wOBA wRC RS Astros wOBA wRC RS Starlin Castro .332 .554 -0.13 Michael Bourn .307 .448 0.03 Darwin Barney .293 .383 0.03 Angel Sanchez .287 .360 -0.07 Marlon Byrd .338 .558 -0.01 Hunter Pence .342 .571 -0.01 Aramis Ramirez .350 .588 -0.03 Carlos Lee .338 .543 -0.05 Carlos Pena .378 .677 -0.01 Jason Michaels …