There’s enough blame to go around for the Cubs’ September performance. FanGraphs’ playoff odds gave them a 73.8 percent shot to make the postseason on Sept. 1, which reached a season-high of 92.4 percent five days later, but by the end of Saturday’s game in Milwaukee, they had officially been eliminated from playoff contention. So, who should shoulder the blame…
The Cubs’ regular season — and heart-breaking September — officially came to an end following a 4-0 loss to the Brewers on Sunday. The result was meaningless, as they had officially been eliminated from playoff contention Saturday night, but where the team goes from here isn’t. And in the press dining room at American Family Field, Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts…
MESA, Ariz. — Tom Ricketts is an owner you can often find walking around Wrigley Field on a game day. It’s not often, though, that the Cubs’ chairman approaches a group of media willing to be grilled with questions. However, following a team meeting before the first full-squad workout officially got underway Monday afternoon, Ricketts did just that. Among the…
First thing Saturday morning, Tom and Laura Ricketts held their family panel at the Cubs Convention for the first time since 2018. The past two Conventions were cancelled due to the pandemic, and the family didn’t hold the panel in 2019 and ’20. The last time Tom took the stage, in January 2020, fans booed when he mentioned the Marquee…
Is this the finished product? Will the Cubs make any more moves before this weekend or is Jed Hoyer done adding this winter? The CHGO Cubs team takes a look at the remaining free agents and maybe another option at 3B. Plus, what will be asked in the Ricketts Family Panel on Saturday? We’re role-playing and predicting what might happen.…
You have to give credit where credit is due: the Ricketts family is picking one heck of an offseason to bring back its ownership panel at the Cubs Convention. Whether its because of the family cutting the session (like 2019, when “fan feedback” led them to pull it and then doing so again the next year) or because of the…
Almost 40 days into Free Agency and the Cubs are still waiting on the shortstop market. Is this the week, or is this a glimpse of the future? The guys react to pitcher Kodai Senga signing with the Mets and Sean Manaea heading to the Giants. Will Carlos Correa get 400 million before this is all said and done? Join…