In this regular feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature Martin Maldonado. Martin Maldonado is a journeyman catcher who came to the Cubs in July […]
After being completely quiet in the offseason the Cubs have finally started to make some moves to restructure their bullpen leading into spring training. Last Friday hours before the 2020 Cubs Convention kicked off for the weekend. the Cubs worked out a deal with the Dodgers in which the Cubs acquired right-handed pitcher Casey Sadler, […]
In this regular feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week, Michael Barrett. Right, let me start by saying that when he played for the Cubs, I mostly […]
In this feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature Smoky Burgess. “Smoky Burgess was fat. Not baseball fat like Mickey Lolich or Early Wynn. But […]
He was “My Sweet Addy”, the puppy-eyed young shortstop we all loved in the IFHouse. There’s a big-eyed dog sitting on my feet that carries his name and a folder full of memes on my computer that haven’t made it to the recycling bin after the 2016 season. Who can forget his contribution to the […]
In this feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature Barry Foote. In my musings about the Cubs–both internal and out loud–I often view my fandom […]
The Rockies are in a bit of a precarious situation. The contract extension they gave to the face of their franchise (and the 3rd or so best 3B in the NL) has put them in a bit of a payroll pickle. They are committed to paying four of their players a combined $88MM in 2020, […]
I’ve been a Cubs’ fan for just over twenty years – a little unusual considering I’m in my mid-forties, but then baseball wasn’t really a thing where I grew up. These days, I live in the Netherlands, where although baseball is relatively widely played, the dearth of Dutch players in the Major Leagues* shows only […]
Today, a couple Cubs beat writers let it be known that Cubs bullpen coach Lester Strode was given his walking papers. Strode had been with the Cubs for 31 years, and had been the bullpen coach since 2007, having served in that capacity under Lou Piniella, Mike Quade, Dale Sveum, Rick Renteria and Joe Maddon. […]
When you think of what you look for in a backup catcher, you think, “Good hands, maybe his bat gets hot, good with pitchers.” Add a crumb catcher of Swansonian majesty and you’ve got Tim Blackwell. Blackwell broke in with the Red Sox where he had a reputation for being a good defensive catcher, but […]