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Cubs Protect 5 from Rule 5 Draft
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The Cubs added pitchers John Gaub, Blake Paker and Rafael Dolis along with catcher Welington Castillo and OF James Adduci to their 40-man roster. All five were eligible to be selected in the upcoming Rule 5 draft and the deadline was today to add them. Arizona Phil has been keeping...
Cubs Rumor Round-Up: Halladay, Bradley
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- Muskat blogged that the Blue Jays contacted the Cubs about Roy Halladay.
...there's a catch. He's owed $15.75 million in 2010, and the Blue Jays
want some of the Cubs' top prospects. No. 1, the team can't take on
Halladay's salary. The Blue Jays...
Sun Sets on 2009 Solar Sox
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Mike Leake (CIN) threw four innings of shutout ball and Lance Zawadzki (SD) had three hits, including a solo home run and a two-run double, leading the Peoria Saguaros to an 8-1 victory over the Mesa Solar Sox at HoHoKam Park this afternoon.
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This was the...
Cubs Deal Heilman to Diamondbacks
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The Cubs have traded RHP Aaron Heilman to the Arizona Diamondbacks for two minor leaguers, LHP Scott Maine and 1B Ryne White. No one on the Cubs or their fans is probably gonna miss Heilman so I won't waste much space on him, but it was a good way for the Cubs to get something...
Grabow Deal Near Completion
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Bruce Levine is reporting that a deal with John Grabow should be completed today for two years and nearly 7.5 million. I had expressed my indifference in the past over resigning Grabow. Oh sure, his ERA has been pretty good the last two years, but with a BB/9 rate near 5 last year...
Final Cashner AFL Start Simply Indefensible
3 days ago by
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Nick Evans, Mike Moustakas, and Colin Curtis each crushed two-run homers, and Ian Kennedy threw five innings of one-run ball, leading the Surprise Rafters to a 9-2 drubbing of the Mesa Solar Sox in Arizona Fall League action at HoHoKam Park in Mesa this afternoon, in what was Andrew...
Phoenix Top Dog in AFL East
4 days ago by
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Danny Espinosa (WAS) had three hits and drove-in four runs and Josh Bell (BAL) cracked a three-run homer to cap a seven-run 4th, as the Phoenix Desert Dogs drubbed the Mesa Solar Sox 11-1 this afternoon at HoHoKam Park, clinching the AFL East crown and earning a berth in the 2009...
Cubs' Top 10 Prospects by Baseball America & Minor League Free Agents
4 days ago by
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Baseball America has listed their top 10 Cubs prospects....drumroll please...
Starlin Castro
Brett Jackson
Josh Vitters
Andrew Cashner
Jay Jackson
Hak-Ju Lee
Logan Watkins
Chris Carpenter
Ryan Flaherty
D.J. LeMehieu
I was expecting Kyler Burke to...
Cubs Top 10 Prospects by Baseball America and Minor League Free Agents
4 days ago by
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Baseball America has listed their top 10 Cubs prospects....drumroll please...
Starlin Castro
Brett Jackson
Josh Vitters
Andrew Cashner
Jay Jackson
Hak-Ju Lee
Logan Watkins
Chris Carpenter
Ryan Flaherty
D.J. LeMehieu
I was expecting Kyler Burke to...
Does Wells Deserve the Rookie of the Year?
4 days ago by
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I think they're on the verge of announcing the N.L. Rookie of the Year and Randy Wells was in the running for most of the season. Ultimately I don't think he'll get more than a few third place votes from the Chicago writers and I don't have much time to put together...
TCR Friday Notes
7 days ago by
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A little under the weather and mourning the end of the Bears season, so some brief notes to hold you over for the weekend.
- To add fuel to my "they better offer Rich Harden arbitration" fire, the Seattle Times suggest the Mariners have some interest in Rich Harden...
Cubs Rumor Round-Up: Granderson, Bradley, Castillo, Grabow & Byrd
8 days ago by
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Let's try to filter through all the rumor reports from the GM meetings...
Milton Bradley
We know Hendry has talked to the Rays, Rangers, Blue Jays, Mets and Angels and really only the Rays and Rangers seem to be showing any real interest and both want the Cubs to pay...
Anticipated Pitching Duel Fizzles into Slugfest at HoHoKam
9 days ago by
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With two of the AFL's top starting pitchers on the hill, naturally the game turned into a slugfest, as the Mesa Solar Sox scored eight unanswered runs in the middle innings to overcome a 4-0 deficit, only to blow a four-run 8th inning lead, before scoring the game-winning run...
Cubs Potential Offseason Targets: Randy Winn or Marlon Byrd
9 days ago by
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I had to take a break from the series last week cause of that annoying paying job that I jeopardize every day spending way too much time here on TCR. So I'm gonna double up the efforts and today we look at some more potential center field candidates. Let's start with Randy...
TCR Free Agent Frenzy 2010
10 days ago by
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Once again we piggyback on MLB.com's Free Agent Frenzy contest. MLB picks the 15 free agents, you pick the team and then rank them by confidence levels, 15 being the most confident, 1 being the least confident. The submission form is after the jump, otherwise you can follow this...
Bill James 2010 Projections for Cubs
10 days ago by
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Fangraphs is once again going to list the projections on their player pages from a variety of sources, Bill James, CHONE, Marcel....maybe more. Bill James projections are up first and here's how the Cubs ranked by wOBA and their 2009 wOBA (explanation of wOBA here). I'll...
Cubs Rumor Round-Up: Bradley 3-Way, Chapman & More
11 days ago by
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All Milton, all the time...
- Foxsports's rumor mongering robot Robothal is hearing talks about a 3-way trade of Milton Bradley to the Blue Jays, Lyle Overbay to the Mets and Luis Castillo to the Cubs.
The three-team possibility, according to one source, has "...
Elias Rankings for Cubs Free Agents
11 days ago by
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The official Elias rankings are out and they don't differ too much from the reverse-engineered list that MLB Trade Rumors was putting out (courtesy of Eddie Bajek).
Type A - John Grabow, Kevin Gregg
Type B - Rich Harden
Reed Johnson didn't make the cut and...
2010 Cubs Top 15 Prospects
11 days ago by
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Here are my “2010 Cubs Top 15 Prospects.”
This is just my opinion based mostly on my own observations of the players, and I'm sure many of you have your own idea of who should be where. I probably tend to place greater weight on players at the higher levels because I believe...
Cubs Rumor Round-up: DeRosa, Harden and Johnson
12 days ago by
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- Buried in this Stltoday.com artcile is this nugget:
DeRosa, coming off wrist surgery, figures to field an offer from the Chicago Cubs, at the least.
Seems like idle speculation than anything legit, but at least the Wrigley-ites would be cheering for the right...
It's Cubs Picnic Day at HoHoKam
15 days ago by
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With most all of the Cubs front office personnel, Scouting Department, and Player Development staff watching from the picnic area high above the third-base dugout, Michael Brenly singled twice and scored once, Starlin Castro singled twice and drove in a run with a sacrifice fly...
Ted Lilly Complains of Knee Pain and Gets His Shoulder Scoped
15 days ago by
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Sorry for missing the day's rampant speculation on Ted Lilly's left pitching shoulder arthroscopy. I was in the OR all day and connecting hip bones to...
So in one hour what can you see during a shoulder scope? Dr. Yokum puts the scope in from the posterior portal, low...
Ted Lilly is Broken
16 days ago by
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As we know, Ted Lilly was battling through some shoulder issues through 2009 and still delivered a fantastic season with a 3.10 ERA. It didn't seem like it was too serious and something a little offseason rest may take care of, but instead he went under Dr. Andrews' knife...
Crystal Ballin'
17 days ago by
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I would expect the following to happen over the next few weeks:
1. NO LATER THAN THE 4TH BUSINESS DAY FOLLOWING CONCLUSION OF WORLD SERIES: Clubs must decide whether to add any of their Rule 55 minor league free-agents to the 40-man roster.
Probably the only Cubs...
Cubs Rumor Mill: Iwamura, Bradley & Grabow
17 days ago by
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I'm not sure I'll get an offseason potential target up tomorrow, but with the World Series almost wrapping up and the Cubs organizational meetings next week, the rumor mill is beginning to warm up for the offseason. Let's blast through these real quick.- Bruce Levine reported...
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