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According to a number of reports, the Chicago Cubs have dealt Jake Fox and Aaron Miles to the Oakland A's for reliever Jeff Gray and minor-leaguers Ronny Morla and Matt Spencer.
Gray, 28, appeared in 24 games last season, where he had a 3.76 ERA. He had a 1.29 WHIP as well.
Spencer, a left handed hitting outfielder who turns 24 in January, split last year between High A and AA ball last year. He combined to bat .289 with 19 home runs and 91 RBI in 123 games. The Arizona State product also had a .844 OPS.
Morla, 21, played pitched in only 17 games, going ...
All men are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights. Specifically, as Thomas Jefferson said, these rights are three: to life, to liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness.
Baseball fans, however, have a fourth right, which no front office or ownership group may ever deny without consequence: the pursuit of a championship. Just as our forefathers once threw off the bonds of tyranny, so should we abolish forthwith any management group that fails to make forward progress in this, the fourth respect.
That is the cause that draws my fingers to the keys today, O brave Cubs fans. This is ...
It was 103 years ago. To some, it seems as if it were yesterday. The 1906 Chicago Cubs won 116 games while losing a mere 36 for a .763 winning percentage.
There aren't many individuals who could name the 1906 Cubs lineup or pitching staff. How fleeting is fame.
Manager and First Baseman Frank Chance, the Peerless Leader
Frank Chance played first base. He batted .319, tied for the National League in slugging average with teammate Harry Steinfeldt (.430), and led the league with 59 stolen bases.
Chance also managed the team. Yes, there used to be position called "playing manager."
The Last Playing Manager ...
As December dawns, Major League Baseball holds its collective breath. Next week at the Winter Meetings, rumors will fly, and both players and money will change hands. Trades will come to completion, and free-agent negotiations will advance rapidly.
For now, however, the frontier is quiet, and so baseball fans everywhere are left to the pleasant reflection that so enriches the experience of this game during its off-season. With just one month left in this, the most momentous (not to say tumultuous) decade in Chicago Cubs history, I chose to focus my remembrance upon the good times. Specifically, I have selected the ...
TBS announced on Monday that they had parted ways with baseball play-by-play announcer Chip Caray.
Sorry Kleenex, but my single tear won't help your stock price.
Caray, who was better known for the full families of birds living in his eyebrows and his last name than his ability to call a baseball game has never distinguished himself as the legend in the booth that his grandfather, Harry, or father, Skip, would make you think.
To the contrary, Caray's "highlight" reel from this year's postseason has made every sports talk radio station's blooper feed this year. From calling a ground ball a line drive ...
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