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Last year, the Chicago Cubs won 83 games. In the early to mid-'90s that would have been acceptable, and probably even laudatory. However, in 2009, the Chicago Cubs were coming off seasons of 85 and 97 wins, respectively. Both of those were good enough to win the NL Central, but both times the Cubs failed to win a single playoff game.
Jim Hendry picked up the fact that the Cubs had a righty-dominated lineup, which in the post-season is not a great thing, and decided to enter the free agent market. He had to choose between the recently released and given ...
Since pitchers and catchers reported to Mesa in February of 2004, every year has had hype of that being the year the Cubs break the curse. The year, they finally get all the stars aligned just right, get a huge amount of help from Lady Luck, and hoist the World Series trophy.
In the previous years, the Cubs have managed to win a total of one playoff game while watching the Red Sox break their curse in 2004 (and again in 2007 for good measure), the cross-town rival White Sox win their rings in 2005, the rival Cardinals win their ring ...
When Chicago Cubs general manager Jim Hendry set out to trade suspended outfield pariah Milton Bradley this off-season, he must have known he had relatively little chance of obtaining much in return. Bradley was ready to depart his seventh team in ten big-league seasons, and all but one of the divorces had been messy affairs.
Considering his predicament, then, Hendry could have done worse than he did. Chicago acquired pitcher Carlos Silva, a contractual pariah with the Seattle Mariners, and saved money in doing so.
But what to expect of Silva in 2010? Not much, by most estimates. The hefty right-handed hurler ...
It's March, so it's once again time to get out the glove oil and rubber bands, clean off or buy new spikes, remember where the lucky batting gloves went, and wonder if you're too fat to play softball.
It's also time to wonder if your favorite player will stay on your favorite team throughout the entire season.
Because of the finances of professional sports, keeping superstar players in smaller markets is harder than ever. This reality drives some small-market teams to unload stars entering their prime in exchange for older players simply because of the boatload of prospects returning in the transaction.
Today, ...
Will 2010 be the last season for Derrek Lee as a Cub? Perhaps, but it looks like there is mutual interest on both sides:
"The last time Derrek Lee was up for a new contract, he signed a five-year extension at the outset of the 2006 season and suffered a season-changing wrist injury a couple of weeks later.
"Now Lee is in no hurry to get a deal done before he enters his second 'walk' year as a member of the Cubs, confident he'll put up the kind of numbers that will make him a coveted free agent in November.
"Lee wants to ...
Derrek Lee surprised me in 2009. Never did I think he would put up the kind of numbers he did. His 2009 season was a drastic improvement over his 2008 season, with 15 more home runs, 21 more RBI, a 15 point improvement in his batting average, and an OBP that went from .361 in 2008 to .393 in 2009. The reason this surprised me so much was because he did all this at the age of 33. Now, in real life 33 years old is not considered an old man at all. In baseball years however, that ...
It's downright hard to be a Cubs fan. There, I said it. It's impossible to sugarcoat it. That's just the way it is for Cubs fans. Hard. Really hard. Surely if you have paid even just a little attention to baseball in your life you understand why. Actually you haven't had to pay attention to baseball at all to understand why. The Chicago Cubs are the butt of countless jokes due to the fact that they have not won a World Series in over 100 years. I can go over all the asinine reasons people bring up as the ...
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