The end of the 2022 season didn’t go as Justin Steele would’ve liked, but you can’t deny the impressive results. Without pitching the entire last month of the season due to a lower back strain, and even with a 4-7 record that doesn’t look good at first glance, Steele took a big step in his development. By the end of…
It’s not hyperbole to say Dexter Fowler may be the most important leadoff hitter in the long history of the Chicago Cubs. Other past leadoff hitters have arguments, too. But Fowler was the leadoff man when the Cubs won not just the biggest championship in franchise history, but the biggest championship in Major League Baseball history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DzcTtAiv3Q In that 2016…
When we look back on the 2016 Chicago Cubs, Dexter Fowler is not the first name most fans will remember. He might be the most important, though. That season was storybook, of course. Kris Bryant had an MVP season. Anthony Rizzo was considered one of the best first basemen in the NL. Jake Arrieta won the NL Cy Young award…
As various recruiting sites have rolled out their preseason lists of baseball’s top prospects, Pete Crow-Armstrong continues to see his stock rise. One of latest examples comes from MLB Pipeline’s top 100 prospect list that was released last Thursday. The 20-year-old outfielder was by far the highest ranked Cubs prospect, coming in at No. 28 in the top 100 (ahead…
In 2016, the Cubs had an all-time defense. As they made the run to the World Series title that season, they led all of baseball with 107 defensive runs saved (DRS). The next highest team, the Astros, saved 77 runs that year. Three years later, when the Cubs failed to make the playoffs for the first time in four seasons,…
With 62 days left before Opening Day, that means Major League Baseball players have just 62 days to work out the kinks and get used to the rule changes set to go into effect this season. Those changes, which were voted in by MLB’s competition committee in September, include the pitch clock (along with restrictions on the number of times…
Trey Mancini met with the media via Zoom on Monday for the first time since officially signing with the Cubs on a two-year deal Friday. Mancini discussed multiple topics during the roughly 17-minute call, including his free agency, his 2022 season, the lessons he learned from his battle with colon cancer and more. And throughout the call, he made it…
Good morning, Chicago! Januarys are usually not that great for sports towns like Chicago that aren’t blessed with regular NFL playoff game. They’re cold, bleak and often monotonous. And yet when I look back on the short history of CHGO, I’m not sure we’ve ever had a bigger or better week than the one we just experienced. In fact, if…
As Adbert Alzolay got to the end of a longer-than-anticipated rehab process last season, the obvious course of action for a return became him taking on a bullpen role. That allowed him to prove that, after months of recovering from a right lat strain suffered during a bullpen session prior to spring training, he was healthy enough to pitch against…
Dylan Cease and Dansby Swanson are now the stars of the Crosstown rivalry. But before they were big leaguers, they faced off in high school. And Cease is still a little salty about the call.
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