Before Jerry Dipoto went and did that thing he does—in this case, dealing for Dee Gordon—the big news of the Thursday hot stove was Tyler Chatwood’s three-year, $38 million deal with the Cubs. Many were quick to point out Chatwood’s velocity, groundball rate, and relative youth as the primary factors in his big payday, and […]
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Cubs Target Profile: Seung Hwan Oh
The logic with the Cubs and Oh remains roughly the same as it was when I wrote about Pat Neshek, with one very large difference. While Neshek is coming off perhaps the best season of his career, Oh is coming off a very down year in 2017. This is precisely the reason that I think he […]
The Cubs and the Next Few Offseasons
Cubs fans are rightly excited about the upcoming season. It’s all that most want to think about, and, really, after years of thinking about the future, it absolutely makes sense to enjoy the present. Front offices don’t have that luxury, though. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned about the Cubs’ brain trust over the past several years, it […]