The Chicago Cubs have once again descended into a disappointing, non-playoff season, with fans frustrated and longing for the promised build-up of the team that still seems so far away. And this week, the club’s new chairman, Tom Ricketts, discussed the likelihood that next year’s player payroll will be lower than this season’s $145 million price tag, the third highest in the league this year.
In the same announcement, Ricketts danced around the issue of ticket prices, with conventional...Read Full Story
It looks like baseball is going to be adding two playoff teams starting next season. Both the players’ union and owners seem to be in agreement with this, which leaves three questions:
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Will this change be good for baseball?In my opinion, adding 2 more playoff teams will be a great change for baseball. In case you don’t already know, there are two leagues in baseball, with three divisions in each league. Every division winner gets a playoff spot and each...Read Full Story
Ron Santo of death has a star third baseman for the transmitter and the Chicago Cubs for a long time to become a revered for his exploits on the field and his fight against juvenile diabetes, died Thursday at a hospital in Arizona. He was 70thThe cause was a problem with bladder cancer, said WGN Radio, Santo was a commentator for the Cubs. Boosted by the Chicago Cubs from 1960 to 1973, after a final season with the Chicago White Sox, Santo hit 342 career home runs won five Gold Gloves for the...Read Full Story
A day after I wrote up about the Chicago Cubs looking for a lefty out of the pen, the Cubs finally swung a deal with their frequent trade partners the Pittsburgh Pirates and snagged John Grabow and Tom Gorzelanny in exchange for RHP Kevin Hart, RHP Jose Ascanio and 2B Josh Harrison.The good news is the Cubs didn't give up a lot in the deal for Grabow. Sure, they gave up a starter at a time when they kind of need them, especially with Ryan Dempster not having a great return to the rotation...Read Full Story
But it's not for the Chicago Cubs. GM Kenny Williams flew under the radar again and traded for Jake Peavy, formerly of the San Diego Padres, again, but this time, Peavy didn't say no and agreed to a deal that sends him to the Southside of Chicago to pitch for the White Sox, eventually. The White Sox gave up quite a bit in the deal, including their top pitching prospect Aaron Poreda, current 5th starter Clayton Richard and 2 more pitching prospects, Adam Russell and Dexter Carter. This was the...Read Full Story
In addition, pitching is notoriously unstable. If we look at the ERA leaders from 2007, we see Jake Peavy, Brandon Webb, John Lackey, Brad Penny, Fausto Carmona, Dan Haren, John Smoltz, Chris Young, Erik Bedard and Roy Oswalt. Haren is the only one who has ...
According to a Bill James sabermetric stat that measures how many runs ... That's a fair question — one that I have worked out with the next change. Release Alfonso Soriano, bring up Anthony Rizzo to fill his roster spot.
Jake Peavy fired 6 1/3 shutout innings Sunday and the Chicago White Sox completed an interleague sweep of the Chicago Cubs 6-0. Peavy (5-1) logged his first win in four starts, shutting down the ...
CHICAGO -- This is what the Chicago White Sox expected when they made those big moves to acquire Jake Peavy and Adam Dunn. They just figured it would happen sooner. Peavy pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning, Dunn hit his 14th homer ...
It was on Chris Sale's left arm, which produced a dazzling performance ... He was locating his mid 90s fastball well, and he had little trouble getting Rays hitters to chase after his breaking pitches. At-bats were pretty much over as soon as Sale got ...
However, the Chicago Cubs came back to win the 1907 and 1908 World Series. Patrick Michael is a resident of New Orleans, but grew up watching the Chicago Cubs on WGN with Harry Caray and Steve Stone as the announcers. A diehard Cubs fan, Patrick's favorite ...
The White Sox recalled lefty Jose Quintana from Class AA Birmingham to replace injured lefty John Danks so he could face the Indians on Friday night at U.S. Cellular Field. Quintana, making his first big-league start, pitched six innings as the ...
Through two months (just about) of the 2012 MLB season, the American League Cy Young race features some usual suspects and one not-so-usual suspect.That would be Chicago White Sox lefty Chris Sale. He hasn't gotten a whole lot of attention, but he's been one of the best pitchers in baseball for the month of May, and his numbers for the season are all solid. His first season as a starting pitcher is going pretty well.The question is where Sale...
Alfonso Soriano led the ways as the Chicago Cubs finally ended their 12-game losing streak with an 11-7 win over the San Diego Padres. Soriano had three hits, three RBI and a pair of runs to go with his long ball, while Darwin Barney, Starlin ...
It’s time to go all-in on the White Sox, Chicago. We still don’t know if Chris Sale’s arm is going to fall off, or if Jake Peavy is a few starts from the disabled list or if John Danks and Gavin Floyd will ever be as good as they should be.
These are just my musing on the goings on in Chicago Sports theses days. Some articles will be about things outside the sports world when I want to take a break from them, but mostly about sports. And mostly the Cubs.