I am officially beginning to question some of the recent decisions by the Cubs' front office. Not only have several offseason acquisitions not panned out, most notably Chris Volstad, but several inactions have also come back to nip the team in the butt.For example, would the Cubs have tried harder to unload Matt Garza if they knew by June they would have the second worst record in baseball?His value has certainly dropped with a 2-4 record and a 3.99 ERA. He has 61 strikeouts to 21 walks, but he isn't pitching with the ace efficiency that the team was hoping ...
Fantasy trade packages involving every team's super prospects are spread across the Internet involving Chicago Cubs All-Star Starlin Castro. But don't get your hopes up. In fact, it's time to come back down to Earth.Mental miscues or not, there is no reason to give up on Castro and trade the shortstop of the present and future.Talking heads and fans are infatuated with trades that could help the Cubs compete in 2014 and beyond. Welcome to the age of 24-hour social media.The overreaction needs to stop. Here are nine reasons why the Cubs shouldn't trade Castro.Begin Slideshow
Chicago Cubs manager Dale Sveum surely hoped his miseries with reliever Carlos Marmol would come to an end once Marmol was removed from the closer role. As is typically done with a former closer who needs to get himself right, Sveum has been pitching Marmol in low-leverage situations where he might be able to work out the issues in his game and essentially rehabilitate himself. The Cubs faced just such a situation Wednesday night, down 5-0 to the Milwaukee Brewers in the eighth inning. No lead to protect, no key outs to deliver, no stress on every pitch. It was seemingly the ...
The Chicago Cubs selected Florida high school center fielder Albert Almora as the first pick of the Theo Epstein era. You would think he would be honored as the piece the messiah decided was the building block for the future. Instead, he seemed as excited to be coming to the Cubs as going to the dentist. When asked for a reaction to the selection, he told Paul Sullivan of the Chicago Tribune, "My main priority now is college." Obviously he's a smart kid and well-schooled by uber-agent Scott Boras, acting as if playing Major League Baseball is just an afterthought at ...
Starlin Castro's most recent gaffe has left some to question his standing on the team in the future. My own personal belief is that the Chicago Cubs should be open to trading the young star, but, unfortunately, that's not a belief shared by many others.He's put together a solid season up to this point. He owns a line of .311/.325/.431 with four home runs and 32 RBI, production that exceeds that of most other shortstops in the game today.The Cubs are reportedly fielding offers for both Ryan Dempster and Matt Garza in an effort to enter a complete rebuilding mode.That ...
A manager can only take so much until he reaches his breaking point, and after yet another miscue by shortstop Starlin Castro, Dale Sveum might eventually need to make a change.After failing to realize the number of outs in the inning and jogging back to the dugout with only two outs, Sveum issued a warning to Castro to fix his problem:"It's the last straw. He better start getting his head in the game, period."Without a doubt, the single most important defensive position on the diamond is the shortstop. In Starlin Castro's 335 career Major League appearances, he has made 65 errors. ...
Don't pity Cubs manager Dale Sveum. He has one of only 32 major league managing jobs in the world and earns millions of dollars. Plus, he knew what he was getting into when he accepted the position. Well, maybe he didn't realize they would be quite this bad. Still, one can't help but draw comparisons between the Cubs skipper and other sacrificial lambs who have coached in Chicago. For example, former Bulls coach Tim Floyd comes to mind. Floyd was probably never a bad coach, though his career record when he left the Bulls was the worst of all time ...
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 ...
Monday's game against the San Francisco Giants was bad enough for Starlin Castro, based solely the box score. The Chicago Cubs shortstop went 0-for-4 at the plate, leaving four runners on base in a 3-2 loss to the Giants that capped off a four-game sweep at AT&T Park. What people were talking about after the game, however, was something that didn't show up in the box score and had Cubs manager Dale Sveum fuming after the game. With one out in the fifth inning, the Giants' Brandon Crawford hit a ground ball to second base. Darwin Barney flipped the ball to Castro ...
Dale Sveum’s comments toward Starlin Castro’s mental blunders points to a Chicago Cubs franchise in complete disarray.“It’s the last straw,” Sveum publicly admonished his shortstop, according to USA Today's Bob Nightengale, after the Cubs' 3-2 loss against the San Francisco Giants Monday. "He better start getting his head in the game. Period.''About this, Sveum is absolutely right.It is the last straw.It is the last straw for an organization that is beyond abysmal.At 18-36, the Cubs are already 12.5 games behind the NL Central-leading St. Louis Cardinals. Only the San Diego Padres have a worse record than the Cubs.Offensively, the Cubs are near ...
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