The Chicago Cubs have a couple of major trade chips to play with, and the most valuable of the bunch is right-handed starter Matt Garza.Garza's numbers aren't as flashy as Ryan Dempster's, to be sure, but he's a lot younger at a mere 28 years of age and he isn't due to test the free agent waters until after the 2013 season. He hasn't been perfect this season, but he's capable of pitching like an ace on any given day.Not surprisingly, there are a handful of teams interested in Garza's every move these days. According to Bruce Levine of ESPNChicago.com, ...
A crossing of paths between a Boston Red Sox fan and a Chicago Cubs fans used to be a heck of a thing.Imagine, if you will, a city street circa 2000-2002. A Red Sox fan would have approached from one end, and a Cubs fan from another. Upon noticing one another, they would have acknowledged each other and shared one word:"Someday."And that was it. That's all it took.You see, Red Sox and Cubs fans used to share a weird sort of bond. They shared a mutual misery, to be sure, but also a mutual respect. Cubs fans realized that Red Sox ...
No matter what happens during his tenure with the Chicago Cubs, Theo Epstein is always going to be remembered as that guy who turned the Boston Red Sox into World Series champions. Twice.Thus, he'll be able to walk away from the game of baseball knowing that he did well even if the Cubs don't win another game under his watch.But as I and many others have written before, Epstein is going for broke with the Cubs. He doesn't want to be one of the greatest executives in baseball history. He wants to be the greatest executive in baseball history.If he ends ...
The Chicago Cubs are in full-on rebuilding mode, but there's a chance they'll be dishing out some big checks in the very near future.That's nothing team czar Theo Epstein hasn't already done before, but the circumstances are slightly different in this case. What Epstein has to decide is not whether he should pay big bucks for current superstars (i.e. Carl Crawford), but for players who have the potential to become superstars.To this end, two players are on Chicago's radar: 18-year old draftee Albert Almora and 20-year-old Cuban defector Jorge Solar.The trouble is that it won't be easy for the Cubs ...
Chicago Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro is one of the top young players in Major League Baseball. He can hit, he can run, he can field and he's only going to do these things better and better as he acquires more experience. There's just one problem: There are simply too many incidents in which it's painfully obvious that Castro is a young player. The talent is there. The wisdom and general baseball savvy...not so much.This has been the case for a while now with Castro, and things finally boiled over on Monday afternoon in San Francisco. Castro forgot how many outs there ...
When August 1 rolls around, there's a good chance the Chicago Cubs are going to look significantly different from the way they look today.As many expected they would, the Cubbies are having a brutal season. They're 18-32 and fresh off a month of May in which they went 10-17. There are only so many teams around the league right now that have incentive to go into fire sale mode ahead of the July 31 trade deadline, and the Cubs are one of them.The word around the campfire is that the Cubs are indeed planning on going into fire sale mode. ...
The Chicago Cubs spent this past offseason pointing the franchise in a new direction.Former Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein is in to run the show, with former San Diego Padres GM Jed Hoyer serving as the Cubs' new GM. Now that the Cubbies have an All-Star front office, the future is bright.The present, on the other hand...It takes time to build a winning ballclub, and the simple truth is that the Cubs' new regime hasn't had enough of it. They have the Cubs headed in the right direction, but championship contention is still a few years away.In the ...
Kerry Wood spent some time with the Cleveland Indians and the New York Yankees in 2009 and 2010, but the dude is a Chicago Cub. Through and through.According to Jon Paul Morosi of Fox Sports, Wood is this close to being a Cub for at least one more year:Additionally, Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein spoke openly about signing Wood on Wednesday, and he made no secret of the fact that signing Wood is an easy choice to make.Courtesy of Bruce Levine of ESPNChicago.com:We said all along we want to get this done. We have a world of respect for Kerry ...
Barring a sudden change in organizational philosophy, it sounds like Chicago Cubs fans won't be getting Prince Fielder for Christmas this year.According to David Kaplan of CSNChicago.com, the Cubs are not planning on presenting Fielder with a "major offer." No doubt the Cubs have the finances to make a deal with the free agent first baseman, but Kaplan says they have other plans.What kind of plans, you ask?How about tearing this team apart and rebuilding it from the ground up. "After speaking with several baseball sources over the past few days I am hearing that a complete and total rebuild of ...
The Chicago Cubs have a new general manager, money to spend, and a hole to fill at first base.So who should they sign, Albert Pujols or Prince Fielder?The rumor mill has had the Cubs interested in both players in recent months. The only trouble is that they're not the only ones who have been linked to Pujols, and the market for his services is starting to heat up.You can thank the Miami Marlins for this. They've made Pujols an offer, one that SI.com's Jon Heyman thinks proves just how serious the Marlins are about bringing Pujols aboard.However, this doesn't mean ...
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