Jake Arrieta struggled a bit in his last few outing since the no-hitter, but today he looked much more like the dominant pitcher fans have grown to love over the past 11 months. Except for the fourth inning, Arrieta was on top of his game; he had great movement and controlled the strike zone, yielding […]
Author: Michael Jimenez
These Cubs Are Writing Their Way Into the History Books
With each new win, another franchise or league record seems to come into jeopardy of falling to the 2016 Chicago Cubs. The hype is real with this team, and deservedly so given the results thus far, but the old cliches still apply: “the best team in the regular season isn’t guaranteed anything”; “the playoffs are a crapshoot”; “it just […]
The Unlikeliest of Heroes
The Cubs have ridden the top rotation and offense in the game, thus far, to the best record in all of baseball. At the time of this writing, the Cubs as a team rank first in runs per game, first in run differential, first in ERA, second in OBP, second in VORP, and second in TAv. […]
Prospect Day: 10 Takeaways From the Major Prospect Lists
Over at the main site, the BP prospect team released the Cubs’ Top 10 Prospect list today. This is, of course, cause for celebration. It also means that we can finally wrap up prospect season with a comparison of six of the most popular prospect lists: Keith Law’s at ESPN, Baseball America’s, John Sickles’s at minorleagueball.com, FanGraphs’s, MLB.com’s, […]
Paper Champs: Thinking of 2004 on the Dawn of 2016
Expectations are a funny thing. The Cubs went from expectations of another rebuilding year in 2015, with only the possibility of contention, to expectations something near to “World Series or bust” in just one year’s time. I started planning my first trip to Wrigley Field last October, when I expected the Cubs to beat the Mets. My […]