Today the Chicago Cubs announced what everyone had been expecting all along, President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein would be stepping down from his role, and General Manager Jed Hoyer would take over in Epstein’s role. The other thing that wouldn’t come as a shock would be Jason McLeod, who has been SVP of Player […]
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 Cubs starting pitchers. Adbert Alzolay (1-1, 2.95 ERA) He didn’t set foot on a big league mound until […]
Morans talking. Please do not put your podcast speaker near your frozen food.
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 […]
Among the things that are new in this season of weirdness are regularly scheduled Cub games at Wrigley Field on Friday and Saturday nights. After last night’s game here, the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates went at it under the lights again in the 2537th game in their history. How did it go? The Cubs […]
Today the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers squared off in the molcajete that was Wrigley Field with the wind howling out. With Tyler Chatwood squaring off against Freddy Peralta, it looked like it was going to be a slugfest with each team getting near to or over 10 runs. Looks like only the Cubs got […]
After Tuesday evening’s first-televised intrasquad game at Wrigley Field, featuring a pitching matchup of Kyle Hendricks and Yu Darvish, there was a Wednesday afternoon tilt featuring the back of toe rotation, Tyler Chatwood and Alec Mills. It’s a good thing they didn’t sell tickets to this one, boy…you’d pay for the whole seat, but only […]
Nobody was able to watch Spring Training games on Saturday, as the White Sox were rained out and the Cubs were on the Marquee Network. Sorry, Cub fans…you missed out on the inaugural Ryan Dempster Harry Caray imitation. On Sunday, the White Sox had to be encouraged by Dylan Cease’s outing, going two innings, allowing […]
The 2019 Chicago Cubs bullpen was, in a word, ungood. According to Fangraphs, they were the 20th ranked pen in baseball. They blew 28 out of 66 save opportunities on the year, and their 1.35 WHIP was good for 16th in baseball. In other words, ick. So it certainly appears that a housecleaning would be […]