Is Ryan Dempster Underrated?

Ryan Dempster made the conversion from closer to starter for the 2008 season. This conversion was a success as he won 17 games with an ERA of 2.96. He followed up his 2008 season by posting an ERA of 3.65 for 2009. In 2009 he proved his season in 2008 was no fluke. You would [...]

Cubs defeat Theriot

The Cubs have won their arbitration case against Ryan Theriot who will make 2.6 million instead of 3.4. This marks the end of a nice run the Cubs were on in NOT going all the way to a hearing, and makes the team 2-2 over the last two hearings. (Last one being Mark Grace in [...]

Cubs Bolster Their Bench; Add Nady

The ever-versatile Xavier Nady joins the Cubs on a one-year deal in the team’s attempt to add depth to the outfield and at first base. The Cubs have been very vocal in their search for a fourth outfielder over the past few weeks. Names such as Jermaine Dye, Jonny Gomes, and Rocco Baldelli have been [...]

2010 MLB Off-Season Review: NL Central

Chicago Cubs Key losses- Rich Harden, Milton Bradley, Kevin Gregg, Aaron Miles, Aaron Heilman. Jake Fox Key additions- Carlos Silva, Marlon Byrd, John Grabow (re-signed) Off-season grade- C Justification- Considering the circumstances I think the Cubs have come out okay this off-season. Getting Silva for Bradley hurts, but getting $9 million from Seattle and getting [...]

Talks Heating Up With Sheets

It was reported recently that the Chicago Cubs had put Ben Sheets on the back-burner, despite mutual interest. Well, today Jim Bowden tweets “Ben Sheets negotiations, according to reliable sources, are heating up with teams most interested … the Rangers, Mets, Mariners, A’s and Cubs.” Also, on MLB Live with Bowden and Joe Castellano, Bowden [...]

Fantasy Is Not Real Life

Some of our readers might be familiar with Fire Joe Morgan. If not, I highly recommend checking out their site (www.firejoemorgan.com), although they have “retired” from sports blogging. Anyway, their format is something that has been copied often, and I thought I’d get in on the mix. Here’s my FJM style critique of Eric Karabell’s [...]

Cubs Set Their Sights On Kiko Calero

Coming off a fantastic season of relief work for the Marlins, Calero is exactly the type of reliever the Cubs have been searching for this off-season. FoxSports.com reports that the length of the contract is the only thing holding the Cubs up from signing the 35-year-old reliever. Kiko Calero, the right-handed former Marlin, is coming [...]

Bad Idea of the Week: Ryan Theriot Leading Off

The former LSU Tiger Ryan Theriot is many things. He is presently the starting shortstop of the Chicago Cubs. He owns a pretty large following of female Cubs fans who enjoy telling everyone just how much they love him. Oh yeah, and he would be a horrible option to lead-off in 2010. At 30 years [...]

Chicago Cubs Hall of Fame Coaching Staff

On Monday, the Cubs announced the signing of Greg Maddux.  No longer for his crafty pitching but for his great mind of the game. Maddux will join the Cubs in 2010 as assistant to the general manager Jim Hendry.  During spring training Maddux will work with the coaching staff on in instruction for major and [...]

Hall of Fame or Hall of Average?

After waiting eight years to make it to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Andre Dawson was announced as the sole electee on Wednesday. Although he was one of my favorite Cubs players, I have a hard believing he is an elite player. The Hall of Fame is supposed to be for the elite players [...]

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