While the season ended sooner than we would have liked, it did indeed end. So now there’s nothing left but to hand out report cards for the players of each team. We’re continuing this series today with the Cubs outfield. Albert Almora (167/265/200 -0.1 fWAR) Oy. 34 plate appearances, one extra base hit (a double). […]
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WASTED EFFORT: Team COVID 3, Cubs 1
Today the Chicago Cubs played their first doubleheader of the 2020 season, meeting up with the St. Louis Cardinals for a twinbill necessitated by the Cardinals lack of leadership and discipline resulting in a casino outing that led to 18 different members of the organization testing positive for COVID-19. Kyle Hendricks was scheduled to take […]
The Cubs Starters Are the Best In the NL…and They Have a Best Friend
This is probably needless to say but this whole season is and will continue to be an exercise in Small Sample Size Theater. It’s best that we just get used to it now to save us all a lot of typing. Stats below courtesy of Fangraphs. The Cubs have now completed roughly 20% of their […]
LOCAL GUISE: White Sox 7, Cubs 3
Tonight we finally got non-scrimmage baseball, as the Chicago Cubs and White Sox met for a preseason game in Wrigley Field. We can’t really call it an exhibition game, since it’s not really being exhibited to anyone. At least not in person. This is the first of two games in two nights between these teams, […]