It’s been an interesting start to the season, as the Cubs have stumbled out of the gate following an amazing World Series run in 2016. The team’s sluggish offense, inconsistent pitching, and inability to keep key players on the field have both players and fans scratching their heads and looking for answers. While you can […]
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Game 38 Recap: Cubs 9, Reds 5
What You Need To Know: The Cubs offensive woke up to the tune of nine runs on 13 hits (seven of which were for extra bases, four of which were home runs) after scoring only six runs in their previous four games. Next Level: Coming into tonight Addison Russell, Kyle Schwarber, and Anthony Rizzo had OPS+ […]
Where Should Cubs’ Starting Pitching Concerns Be Focused?
The Chicago Cubs are not in a good place right now. They’re under .500, and there isn’t an area of the game in which anyone can declare that they’re actually excelling at this point. Despite some solid individual offensive and defensive performance, they haven’t put things together as a group in either respect. Same goes […]
Young Cubs: Cease Your Happ Puns
The big league Cubs are struggling and banged up, and so we’ve seen—sooner than we’d hoped—the callups of Iowa’s most interesting prospects. Jeimer Candelario, Eddie Butler, and Ian Happ all made their 2017 debuts last week, and each immediately afforded the reeling Cubs some much-needed support. Each, perhaps with the exception of Butler, will likely end […]
Eloy Makes an Immediate Impact
The statline looks pretty impressive for Eloy Jimenez’s 2017 debut. He went 3 for 7 with three walks, two of them intentional, one a walk-off. The Cubs No. 1 prospect played in his first games in 2017 that mattered yesterday for the Myrtle Beach Pelicans after spending the first month and a half of the season recovering […]
Game 37 Recap: Cardinals 5, Cubs 0
What You Need To Know: Another frustrating offensive performance, another poor Jake Arrieta start. The Cubs threatened by putting two men on in the first, and Arrieta cruised through the bottom half, but that was as good as it got. A pair of two-run home runs put the Cardinals up 4-0 through three, and that […]
Joe Martarano Moving to Baseball Full Time Might Be a Steal for the Cubs
The Cubs currently have four minor-league affiliates in season, with their Low-A Eugene squad set to begin in June. I might spend most of my time on MILB.TV checking out South Bend and Tennessee this summer, but what I am really looking forward to is seeing some of those prospects in Eugene, the Cubs’ short […]
Game 36 Recap: Cardinals 5, Cubs 3
What you need to know: The focus of game two of the Cubs visit to St. Louis was on the young guns. With injuries and illness ravishing the team, there have been notable call-ups in the past week or so. The most notable of those was one of the Cubs’ top prospects, Ian Happ. His […]
Trying to Find Balance of Perspective in the Cubs’ Uneven Start
Friday’s 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals notwithstanding, there’s a lot of frustration in tuning into Chicago Cubs baseball early in 2017. A team that looks like world beaters at times, only to drop five of six to the Yankees and Rockies over the past week, there’s clearly much to be sorted out with […]
Game 35 Recap: Cubs 3, Cardinals 2
What you need to know: Eddie Butler made his debut for the Cubs today, and it was a good one. All Butler did was surrender two hits, strike out five, and walk three over six shutout innings, a welcome change from the Cubs’ incumbent starters of late. And yet, Butler’s performance was overshadowed a bit […]