After yesterday's exciting 2-1 defeat to the Brewers, the Cubs dust themselves off, assemble (mostly) a big-league caliber lineup, and host the Texas Rangers. Listen on 670 the Score and watch nowhere (it isn't on mlb.tv). Lineups Almora Jr. CF Chris Brian 3B Rizzo 1B Contreras C Heyward RF Russell SS Baez 2B Gimenez DH (have to have a bat like …
Cubs Spring Training Game #1: Brewers vs. Cubs
Baseball is back. Kinda. Listen here and watch here. Cubs Lineup: Happ CF Schwarber LF La Stella 3B Caratini C Navarro 1B (lol) Bote 2b (lol) Hannemann RF (lol) Zagunis DH Freeman SS (lol) SP: Michael Roth (lol) Brewers Lineup: Broxton CF Yelich LF Santana RF Aguilar 1B Perez 3B Pina DH Sogard 2B Arcia SS Rebel Scum Jett Bandy C …
First Look: New Cubs Pitchers
View PostCubs Sign Yu Darvish
darvish deal is $126M for 6 years, source says. #cubs — Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) February 10, 2018 So, it's finally happened. After approximately 40 months, Yu Darvish has finally made it official with the Cubs, signing a 6-year, $126 million deal. There are incentives that could increase the total take to $150 million, but the first indication is that those …
Cubs Sign Brian Duensing
Sources: cubs have deal to bring back Brian Duensing. $7M for 2 years. — Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) January 17, 2018 Brian Duensing really acquitted himself well in the second half of last season after starting out in somewhat atrocious fashion. There was a significant amount of time when I thought the Cubs would be better served by simply releasing him, …
The Scrap Heap – Winter Meetings
It was an ice cold stove for most of the offseason, but things finally picked up after Shohei Ohtani signed with the Los Angeles Angels of Disneyland on the eve of the Winter Meetings. Cubs Moves The Cubs picked up a pair of relief pitchers and a injury project that could see some time in the pen late this year: …
Cubs to sign Brandon Morrow ***Updated***
According to Jon Heyman, the Cubs will sign Brandon Morrow for $10-11 million per year, but the length of the contract is not yet known. He's coming off the best year of his career, but it was less than 50 innings and what he's done prior to 2017 leaves a lot to be desired. Depending on how long the deal …
What is Giancarlo Stanton’s trade value?
Some interesting news came out today – namely, the fact that Stanton would only accept a trade to the Dodgers, Cubs, Astros, and Yankees. With that in mind, the Cubs would be pretty foolish not to consider kicking the tires on a trade for Stanton. That said, the "value" in his contract is pretty non-existent. Let's take a look. Stanton …
The Scrap Heap
I thought about making this a daily facepalm post, but the 'daily' in it stretches the incredulity even beyond our level of discreditedness. So I have revived its predecessor instead. Cubs Hires I had been waiting for the Cubs to hire Jim Hickey as the new pitching coach to write a new post, but they took something like four weeks …
Cubs hire Chili Davis as hitting coach
The Cubs let John Mallee go and hired Chili Davis to take over. Theo said that Joe Maddon could have any coach back that he wanted and it turns out that there were a lot that he did not want back. The Angels hired assistant hitting coach Eric Hinske away from the team a few days ago and they let …