Uninspiring Cubs News: Theriot Set as Lead-Off Man

Meh.
A 3-letter, guttoral sound that perfectly exemplifies many Cubs fan’s feelings on the 2010 year. Whether such tepid feelings on the future are justified or not remains to be seen.
Piniella just announced his plans that won’t inspire too much optimism for some of the Cubbie faithful. Sweet Lou wants to lead-off, full-time, with 30-year-old shortstop [...]

Guzman considers surgery; decision looms large for Cubs

Chicago Cubs reliever Angel Guzman has had his fair share of bad luck with arm troubles, and even with St. Patrick’s Day approaching the luck of the Irish has failed to find him yet again. An MRI revealed a significant tear in a ligament in his throwing shoulder, and will sideline him indefinitely. Guzman plans [...]

Fifth Starter Battles

All across baseball there are teams with undecided fifth starters. I’m going to give a rundown of the battles to keep an eye on.
Los Angeles Dodgers
Last year’s NL West champs have a bunch of guys fighting for a spot in the rotation. Eric Stults, Charlie Haeger and Carlos Monasterios all pitched in the spring opener, [...]

Lee Says He Will Not Negotiate During Season

Derrek lee says he will not negotiate a new contract during the season. I believe this works for both Lee and the Cubs.

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 floating [...]

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 Marlon Byrd to a [...]

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 reported that [...]

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 [...]