Cubs impressed with 'new' Zambrano

Carlos Zambrano delivers a pitch during a February spring training game. (Phil Velasquez/Tribune)By Paul Sullivan SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Carlos Zambrano's first big test of the spring came at the outset of Tuesday's game against Colorado at Talking Stick. Leadoff man Willy Taveras hit a grounder toward second baseman Blake DeWitt, who dived and let the ball get under his glove for a base hit. The old Zambrano might've thrown his hands in the air. The new Zambrano simply punched his first into his glove and went back to work, eventually getting out of the inning by retiring Carlos Gonzalez and Troy Tulowitzki on grounders. "He's been fantastic," manager Mike Quade said of Zambrano's demanor before the game. "I've got nothing but good things to say about 'Z.' He's pitched well, which doesn't hurt, either. The kind of stuff I'd like to see from him all year. "The more he can help stabilize the pitching end of it and the cl...