Cubs Will Not Keep Rich Harden, Piniella Indicates

Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Rich Harden has seemingly pitched his last game for the Cubs. The free agent to be was skipped in his last start because of fatigue. That fatigue is due to heavy pitch counts in short starts during September. Now, he'll miss his last start of the season after being shut down. Harden's return seems questionable after he went 9-9 with a 4.09 ERA and 4...

A day after basically admitting that the Cubs aren’t going to retain Rich Harden, Lou Piniella also indicated – again without saying anything definitive – that Milton Bradley has played his last game for the North Siders. “Our general manager Jim Hendry had to do a tough task of sending [Milton] home [on Sept. 20], and [...]

You’ve all read a number of articles over the last few days about how the Cubs are more relaxed because Milton Bradley is gone. You’ve seen every idiot saying the Cubs are 6-1 since Bradley was suspended (now 6-2 after the loss today). What I think is interesting is that nobody has once suggested that the reason the team may be more relaxed is because they are out of...

The Chicago Tribune's Paul Sullivan writes that the Cubs have no plans to bring back Rich Harden, as eluded to by manager Lou Piniella.  Prior to losing the final road game of the season to the San Francisco, Piniella ran down the 2010 rotation."You look at our starting pitching here for next year," Piniella said. "You've got (Carlos) Zambrano, you&...

All men are not created equal. Among us, the talented and the genius and the rich and the beautiful are allowed to take more liberties, given more freedoms, and get away with more antisocial behavior than their more average counterparts. The same rule applies to the world of professional athletes. Sports franchises are more than willing to employ and pay excellent money to criminals...

Most of us expected the Mets to be connected to Milton Bradley, hopefully that becomes nothing more then speculation as the two sides seem to be a good fit.The only teams that are going to look at Bradley is a team desperate to find power and looking to dump a bad contract, both of which are the case for the Mets. The Mets desperately need to find a homerun hitter and they may look...

As the 2009 season draws to a close, we look back with a few numbered lists that are chock full of vitamins and oh-so-easy to digest. Today we count the teams that provided much different material for the end-of-the-year video than expected. 1. Chicago Cubs You think the 2004 Cubs would have taught us all a lesson about bestowing World Series bids in March, but noooo, we had to...

Ryan Dempster pitched a five-hitter for his third career shutout, Jeff Baker had a two-run double and the Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-0 on Tuesday night.

When Andy MacPhail resigned from the Cubs during the '06 season debacle, it soon became clear that the long-time whispers of a Cubs sale were formulating into reality.  The Cubs parent owner -- the Chicago Tribune -- was in dire financial straights and, even though the Cubs were a perennial money-maker, they were facing the grim task of bailing out their debt and satisfying...