I know it's way too soon in the Chicago Cubs ownership career of one Tom Ricketts to say too many things about him, good or bad.
All anyone can do is evaluate the man on what he says and, more importantly, what he does.
He says he’s a Cubs fan, and that’s a positive of course. He even met his wife in the bleachers supposedly.
All well and good.
He wants to win by building through scouting and development.
Another “attaboy” there Tom, that’s a solid plan.
He thinks the seventh-inning stretch guest conductor thing is “a nice tradition.”
Um, personally I think it’s long since run ...
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Last night, Carlos Silva got another quality start, pitching six innings and allowing two runs to drop his ERA to 3.35 and improve to 5-0 on the season.
On a night when we learned that Carlos Zambrano will be returning to the starting rotation shortly, a different Carlos was able to steal the show by pitching six scoreless innings before allowing a two-run home run without recording an out in the seventh and being taken out.
After going 2-9 in an ...
Chicago Cubs fans, I want to give you the opportunity to sit in the general manager's chair for a minute and tell me what you would do if you were Jim Hendry for a day.
Other than fire yourself, that is.
Would you consider sending Carlos Zambrano to the minors to stretch out for an eventual return to the rotation, even if it means having to put Big Z on waivers?
Well, that's exactly what I would do. In fact, I don't see that as a problem for the Cubs. I see this as an opportunity to shed his salary.
Look, there may not ...
Let’s start by being honest: the 2010 Chicago Cubs are awful.
The bullpen is thin, the bench is soft, and the bats are taking turns being stone cold. It’s bad enough that your Opening Day starter is being paid almost $18 million to throw two or three innings a week in the bullpen in early May, and Carlos Zambrano isn’t even doing that very well.
The national media is now picking fights for the Cubs to deal with internally. Fox’s Ken Rosenthal decided that Cubs GM Jim Hendry should fire Lou Piniella, and the Cubs have spent a long ...
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When the Cubs traded Milton Bradley to the Seattle Mariners, they expected to get nothing more than a really expensive paperweight in return, and as far as they knew, Carlos Silva was just that.
After all, Silva consistently pitches horribly, and hasn't had a good season since 2005 when he went 9-8 with a 3.44 ERA. That's not exactly an All Star season, but it's the best season he's ever had.
Well, it was the best season he's ever had, until this season.
It is ...
Game No. 25 on our ambitious journey featured two talented young hurlers and a two-homer game from a red-hot fantasy afterthought.
GAME NO. 25
Milwaukee Brewers vs. Cincinnati Reds
• Corey Hart went 3-for-4 two two solo homers Monday night, his third and fourth long balls in the last three games. The Brewers right fielder is batting .287 with seven homers, 19 RBI, and three steals through 30 games this season.
The 28-year-old missed more than five weeks late last season following an appendectomy, which limited him to just 12 homers and 11 steals on the year. After losing 20 pounds this offseason, Hart appears ...
Marlon Byrd has been essentially carrying the Chicago Cubs, sporting a .340 average to go along with his .951 OPS. His 51 hits are second to only Martin Prado in the National League. A glaring issue with Byrd's season thus far is his shockingly low walk rate. He has walked only three times, good enough for the worst walk rate in the majors (1.9 percent). Byrd has never been mistaken for a walk machine, but he would set a career low at this pace. Of course, Byrd's walk rate is acceptable so long as he continues his hit ...
Good teams find ways to win.
So what does that say about this Rockies team that continues to find ways to drop baseball games? Colorado did it again on Monday night, losing 4-2 in 11 innings to the Cubs, erasing any momentum that the team had built over the weekend.
Matt Belisle took the loss, serving up a two-run walk-off homer to Aramis Ramirez. Belisle actually performed well, pushing himself to 2-1/3 innings. He battled not only the Cubs, but also the ever-moving strike zone of Jim Wolf, Brewers starting pitcher Randy Wolf's brother.
The loss ...
FOXSports.com's Ken Rosenthal wrote an article Monday in which he explained why he thinks the Chicago Cubs should let manager Lou Piniella go.
Bruce Miles of the Chicago Daily Herald wrote a blog later that day that included the following quote from Cubs general manager Jim Hendry:
"I'm absolutely completely confident in Lou Piniella," he said. "I've never any thought about Lou not being the manager here this year. I have complete faith in the coaching staff, also. I have no intention of making any changes at all."
Unless the firing of Piniella follows the precedent Starlin Castro's call-up, ...
When asked what his team needed to do to turn it around after a fifth-straight loss to the Pirates, Chicago Cubs skipper Lou Piniella had this to say:
"If we start doing the things that we're capable of doing, I won't have to answer these questions all the time."
But the question remains, can this team turn it around in time to make any noise in the post-season picture?
The quest to find this answer began today with a 4-3 comeback win over the Bucs.
Down 3-1 in the seventh, the Cubs found a way to claw back and tie it. In the eighth, ...
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