Kris Bryant of the Chicago Cubs was announced as the 2015 National League Rookie of the Year on Monday as chosen by the Baseball Writers' Association of America:
ESPN Stats & Info noted Bryant is the sixth Cubs player to win the award.
The Baseball Writers' Association of America passed along the final voting tallies:
Bryant was the favorite to take home this honor since the moment he stepped into the Cubs lineup in the middle of April. The third baseman certainly didn't disappoint as he smashed 26 homers, drove in 99 runs and posted a .369 on-base percentage in 151 games.
His strong play ...
The Rookie of the Year is about performance, not potential.
Geovany Soto can finish ahead of Joey Votto, and Chris Coghlan can win in a year when Andrew McCutchen was also eligible. It happens.
But here's what is happening a lot more often in recent years: The kid who wins the Rookie of the Year jumps on the fast track to winning a Most Valuable Player Award.
Buster Posey (2010 ROY, 2012 MVP) did it, and so did Mike Trout (2012 ROY, 2014 MVP). Ryan Howard (2006) and Dustin Pedroia (2008) won the MVP the year after winning the Rookie of the Year. ...
When the Chicago Cubs hired Joe Maddon last winter, Theo Epstein called it a "unique opportunity" the team just couldn't pass up. When they signed Jon Lester six weeks later, Maddon said they'd "won the baseball lottery."
Now it's time to do it again.
The ace-heavy free-agent market presents the Cubs with another unique opportunity, another chance to win a lottery. And a chance to take everything they accomplished last winter and this past season and push it a huge step further.
All they have to do is sign Zack Greinke.
OK, so signing Greinke isn't all the Cubs would need to do this ...
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 ...
The 2015 Cubs season was an appetizer of sorts. It didn’t necessarily represent accomplishment but rather possibilities for a young core that will remain in Chicago for several more years.
No one walks into any restaurant because of its tasty appetizers. But certainly they can excite you about what else the chef has to offer. If anything, they increase your appetite. They leave you wanting more.
The Cubs want more, as they are hardly satisfied with a National League Championship appearance that ended in a sweep by the New York Mets. They want a World Series and appear close toward the goal ...
Major League Baseball saw more than just the Chicago Cubs' season end on Wednesday night in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series against the New York Mets. It also signaled the end of pitcher Dan Haren's career, who announced his retirement early Thursday morning.
Here is how he told the baseball world:
Paul Sullivan of the Chicago Tribune caught a glimpse of Haren walking out of Wrigley Field for the last time:
The 35-year-old played in 13 professional seasons with eight different teams before he finally called it quits. Fans and peers alike took to Twitter to congratulate Haren on a successful career, ...
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." - Pedro Martinez, Boston Red Sox, 2001
"Mystique and Aura" were appearing nightly in the Bronx during the 2001 World Series, but they missed the flight to Arizona.
The "Curse of the Bambino" enveloped the Boston Red Sox for 86 years until Boston was able to add Curt Schilling to a rotation that included Pedro Martinez. The Bambino has missed all three Red Sox duck boat parades since 2004.
The Chicago White Sox were damned to eternal baseball purgatory because of the ...
Nobody likes to lose, and getting swept, as the Chicago Cubs were by the New York Mets in the National League Championship Series, only makes losing sting that much more. While feelings of disappointment are to be expected, there shouldn't be a Cubs fan moping around the streets of Chicago.
With the core of the team under control for the foreseeable future, a deep farm system and ownership that is committed to bringing a championship back to the North Side, few teams have as bright a future as the Cubs do.
The pain of falling short in 2015 is only going to make ...
Game 4 of the NLCS could be the last chance for the upstart Chicago Cubs and manager Joe Maddon.
But there is hope, at least for this game, and it has to do with the offense.
With some shuffling and adjustments, most of which Maddon has already made, here are ways that the Cubs can see a Game 5. (And it doesn't involve the "Back to the Future II" prophecy or Henry Rowengartner.)
For one, which Maddon has already done, he should adjust his lineup to face Mets lefty Steven Matz.
According to Carrie Muskat of MLB.com, Maddon moved the right-handed Jorge Soler up to ...
Wrigley Field was a haunted house for the Chicago Cubs in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series. Daniel Murphy of the New York Mets again played the ghoul.
Murphy hit a home run for the fifth straight postseason game, and he scored another run as the Mets jumped out to a 3-0 NLCS lead over the Cubs on Tuesday night. A man who would not have been recognized by some casual baseball fans a couple of weeks ago is now generating headlines literally every time that he takes the field. The Los Angeles Dodgers couldn't cool Murphy down. Now ...
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