The Chicago Cubs missed out on Jordan Zimmermann. Then they whiffed on David Price. Now they need to go hard after Zack Greinke, right?
They just returned to relevance with a trip to the National League Championship Series, after all, and could use another starter (at least) to push them over the long-awaited championship hump. Heck, they proved their willingness to spend big on pitching last winter by handing a six-year, $155 million deal to Jon Lester.
"We'd love to have him," Cubs ace Jake Arrieta said of Greinke—the man he bested for NL Cy Young honors, per Bill Shaikin of the ...
Joe Maddon entered a den full of untested Cubbies. Now, after his first season at the helm, they're all grown up.
No, Chicago didn't bust its legendary World Series drought. But the Cubs engineered a significant turnaround, snapping a string of five consecutive losing seasons with a 97-win campaign and a return to the postseason.
A sizable share of the credit goes to the club's brash, bespectacled skipper, who was rewarded with the National League Manager of the Year award Tuesday. To claim the prize, Maddon bested fellow finalists Mike Matheny of the St. Louis Cardinals and Terry Collins of the New York ...
For the second consecutive offseason, the Chicago Cubs could land the hottest left-hander on the market.
Nothing is official until the ink's dry, obviously, but right now, fans on the North Side can allow themselves to dream of David Price in a Cubbies uniform.
That tantalizing vision comes courtesy of Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal, who reported Friday that "an executive who knows Price says that the Cubs are his first choice."
And ESPN's Buster Olney heard from his sources that the Cubs are "heavy, heavy favorites" to secure Price's services.
Price won't come cheap. He's the top arm in a rich free-agent pitching class and ...
If the second game of the Chicago Cubs-Pittsburgh Pirates doubleheader Tuesday was a preview of the National League Wild Card Game, the Cubs will take it and smile.
Chicago got timely hits—including a two-out RBI single off Anthony Rizzo's bat and an RBI double from Dexter Fowler—and most of all a shutdown pitching performance by Jon Lester, who allowed one run, scattered five hits and struck out nine while twirling a complete game in the 2-1 victory.
But wait a minute, you may be asking: If that was a preview of the Wild Card Game, why was Lester on the hill? Surely if ...
When the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets kick off a four-game series Monday, it'll be a clash of clubs with their eyes on the 2015 postseason.
But it'll be something else, too: a meeting of teams with the potential to be National League powerhouses for years to come.
Both the Mets and Cubs are on the rise, blessed with loaded farm systems and laden with nascent MLB talent. The question is this: Which team is better positioned to succeed long term?
That obviously hinges on an array of unknowns; injuries, trades, signings and twists of fate can (and inevitably will) shape the ...
The Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals kick off a four-game series in Missouri on Monday, and the stakes are about as high as they get in early May.
No, nothing will be settled between the longstanding foes. But there's an opportunity to make a statement, particularly for the Cubs.
You know all about this much-hyped young Chicago team, which made headlines over the winter by luring manager Joe Maddon away from the Tampa Bay Rays and inking left-hander Jon Lester to join a roster populated by burgeoning blue-chip talent.
The question now is whether the Cubbies can deliver on their promise.
After a ...
Thirteen games into the season, an ace has emerged for the Chicago Cubs, and his name isn't Jon Lester.
Through three starts, Lester—the offseason's big free-agent fish—has surrendered 12 runs and 24 hits in 15.2 innings. It's a small sample, and odds are the battle-tested left-hander will put up his usual solid numbers when all is said and done.
So far, though, Jake Arrieta is carrying the load in the City of Broad Shoulders.
It's not as if Arrieta came out of nowhere. Last season, the right-hander posted a 2.53 ERA and 0.989 WHIP, struck out 167 in 156.2 innings and finished ninth in ...
Hey, not sure if you've heard, but the Chicago Cubs have a new third baseman—fella by the name of Kris Bryant. Maybe you missed it; it's been one of those under-the-radar stories.
All kidding aside, the Bryant era has officially begun on the North Side. The service-time shenanigans are in the rear-view mirror. The game's most hotly anticipated prospect, dubbed the man "with a golden bat and Zac Efron smile" by the The New York Times' Ben Strauss, is in The Show at last.
Now what?
If you're a Cubs fan guzzling from the trough of spring optimism, it's the start of ...
It's put up or shut up time for Anthony Rizzo.
Oh, sure, it's January, a long, cold, soggy month of all talk and no action in MLB. But Rizzo's the one who decided to open his yapper and guarantee the Chicago Cubs, one season removed from a last-place finish, would win the National League Central in 2015.
Here's the quote in question, per David Schuster of WSCR Chicago:
There you have it, free of qualifiers and about as explicit as it gets.
Here's more, per ESPN.com's Jesse Rogers, "We should be the team. With all due respect to every other team, we're going to ...
The Chicago Cubs aren't messing around. If that wasn't clear already, the first day of Major League Baseball's winter meetings in San Diego brought it into sharp, undeniable focus.
Chicago kicked things off by signing free-agent starter Jason Hammel to a two-year, $18 million deal, per Jon Morosi of Fox Sports.
That'd be the same Jason Hammel the Cubs inked last offseason, then traded to the Oakland Athletics as part of a deadline deal that also sent Jeff Samardzija to the East Bay in exchange for a package of prospects including 2012 first-rounder Addison Russell.
Hammel went 8-5 with a 2.98 ERA for the ...
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