At this point Cubs fans aren’t even shocked anymore. They’re just tired. Deeply, bone crushingly tired of refreshing their phones and seeing another injury notification pop up before they’ve even finished their morning coffee. Daniel Palencia. Fifteen day IL. Right elbow inflammation. Of course. How It Happened The cruel part is that Palencia looked…
Edward Cabrera walked off the mound at Wrigley Field on Tuesday night wearing the face of a man who had just been through something genuinely frightening. Hand cramping up mid outing, velocity already a concern, command deserting him in the fifth — and a Cubs rotation that simply cannot afford another setback watching on…
The Texas Rangers loaded the bases against the Boston Red Sox on Saturday. Again. And once again they did absolutely nothing with it. The final score was 6-3 to Boston and another golden opportunity went to waste. This isn’t a one off. This isn’t a rough patch. This is a full blown trend — and…
The Philadelphia Phillies have strengthened their farm system by signing veteran infielder Luke Ritter to a minor-league contract and assigning him to Double-A. Ritter, a seventh-round pick by the New York Mets in the 2019 MLB Draft, spent several years in the Mets organization before brief stints with the Los Angeles Angels and Detroit Tigers…
The Philadelphia Phillies have one of the most fearsome top three rotations in all of baseball. Christopher Sanchez, Zack Wheeler and Jesus Luzardo is the kind of 1-2-3 punch that gives opposing lineups nightmares before they even step into the batter’s box. But beyond those three? Things get uncomfortable very quickly. And one young pitcher…
The Chicago Cubs have lost two straight to the Colorado Rockies and are staring down the barrel of a sweep in Denver. Not exactly the position a team with playoff ambitions wants to find itself in. So naturally something had to change — and Alex Bregman is right at the centre of it. The Change…
The Chicago Cubs have been quietly doing what the Cubs do best — picking up pieces nobody else wants and turning them into something useful. And their latest acquisition follows that exact blueprint to the letter. While the bigger headlines swirl around trade deadline rumours and playoff positioning, Jed Hoyer slipped in another low key…
The Chicago Cubs had a pretty decent Saturday. A walk off win at Wrigley, a series all tied up against the Giants, and somewhere in the middle of all that excitement — a quiet but interesting roster move that flew completely under the radar. Because the Cubs front office never really stops working. Even on…
When your two highest paid players aren’t delivering and the team is underperforming, that’s just how it goes — the criticism comes with the job title. But there’s one area where Hoyer keeps quietly proving his doubters wrong, year after year, and it’s time to give him his flowers for it. Building a quality bullpen…
The Chicago Cubs couldn’t have scripted a worse Sunday night. A 2-1 loss to the San Francisco Giants in ten grinding innings was painful enough on its own. But what happened in the second inning made the whole thing a lot harder to stomach. Their starting pitcher walked off the mound and didn’t come back….