I saw a post on mlbtraderumors.com today stating the Cubs are interested in moving Kosuke Fukudome this offseason. That won’t be easy, given the $13.5 million in 2011 salary Fukudome has coming to him under the last year of his contract.
Nonetheless, the article notes that the Cubs were able to move clubhouse-cancer Milton Bradley last offseason and actually get something out of the deal, so anything is possible.
One such possibility might be a trade for the Giants’ Aaron Rowand. Rowand has $12 million coming to him in each of 2011 and 2012, the last two years of the five-year, $60 ...
Dorothy “Dottie” Kamenshek was the Babe Ruth, so to speak, of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the only women’s professional baseball league in baseball history.
She passed away on May 17, 2010 at age 84. The Gina Davis character in A League of Their Own was named after Dottie and loosely based on her.
The AAGPBL lasted 12 seasons from 1943 through 1954. At its inception, the “girls” played a game that was closer to fast-pitch softball than what we think of as baseball.
However, as the league matured, the rules changed until by the end of the 1954, the lady ...
I saw a report on mlbtraderumors.com today that the Cubs have decided to place Carlos Zambrano on the Restricted List the way they did with Milton Bradley late last season. Zambrano will reportedly not be back in a Cubs’ uniform until at least the All-Star Break, because the Cubs want Zambrano to get anger-management counseling.
I can’t help but notice that within a day or two of Zambrano blowing up in the dugout, because he apparently felt first baseman Derrek Lee hadn’t made enough effort on a ground ball by Juan Pierre that went for a double, the Rays’ Evan Longoria ...
Maybe it wasn’t Milton Bradley (although I definitely think it was) after all. Now the Cubs have sent another renowned hot-head home for the day, suspending Carlos Zambrano indefinitely after he blew up in the dug-out at Derrek Lee, who failed to make a play on Juan Pierre’s ground ball down the line that went for a double. Zambrano went on to allow four runs in the first inning, and he wasn’t happy about it at all.
In defense of Zambrano, Lee might have had a chance at knocking down the ball if he drove for it. In defense of Lee, ...
The 2010 Cubs are a team I think of as being full of geezers, with Marlon Byrd, Mike Fontinot, Ryan Theriot, Kosuke Fukodome, Xavier Nady, Alfonso Soriano, Aramis Ramirez, Derrek Lee, Ted Lilly, Ryan Dempster and Carlos Silva all over 30. However, the Cubs have been quietly slipping a number of promising rookies into the mix this year.
The position players are SS Starlin Castro and OF Tyler Colvin. Castro is only 20 years old, and while I think he’s got a big learning curve ahead of him at the major league level, he looks like a major star of the ...
The biggest news so far today is the Cubs’ decision to call up 20-year-old Dominican shortstop Starlin Castro all the way from AA ball.
Castro was hitting a robust .376 with a .990 OPS for the Tennessee Smokies in the Southern League, but that’s a long way from the Show.
Castro is one of the more highly regarded prospects in baseball (Baseball America ranked him 16th among all prospects before the start of this season), and players his age sometimes progress very quickly.
Still, Castro’s OPS in 2009 was only .734 last year, when he spent about three-quarters of the season in the ...
