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Mets Need to Bounce Back from Tough Losses
Posted on 17 May 2011 by Jim Mancari.
I am happier than anyone with how the Mets have been playing lately. The team is getting offensive production from unlikely sources, the bullpen has been miraculous and Mike Pelfrey seems to be getting back on track. However, all of a sudden, shades of the 2009 injury plague have crept back to the team. David Wright and Ike Davis are out, forcing the team to reach into its minor league syst...
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Rubber game dubyas
Posted on 14 Apr 2011 by Paul Jackson.
Man, I like those rubber game wins a lot more than the losses. After a “buckle your seat belt” victory on Monday and a blow out loss on Tuesday, the Cubs offense and bullpen picked it up in the series finale tonight, clinching a best of three series 2-1 over the division rival Houston Astros. Game 1 was all Cubs and Dempster settled in for the first time this year. The Cubs were cruising 5-...
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Playyyyyyy Balllllllllll!
Posted on 31 Mar 2011 by Paul Jackson.
It is MLB Opening Day and I’m enjoying the Yankees and Tigers on ESPN as I write. It’s one day before Chicago Cubs opening day at Wrigley against the Pirates. As I prepare to watch this season, Mike Quade has had to make some final tweaks to the roster in preparation to play and has shown a willingness to let the youth step in and take over. Blake Dewitt failed to show up this Spring, despi...
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Marlins 2011 Season Preview: The New Wave
Posted on 30 Mar 2011 by Brendan Tobin.
The Marlins will finally bid farewell to the spacious Sun Life Stadium after this year Marlins fans are used to hearing it. It’s a young team with a ton of talent that still needs to develop. However this year feels different. The fear of losing the game's future stars doesn’t seem like a certainty anymore with a new stadium just a year away. Fans have more reason to believe that Mike Stan...
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Defense Wins Championships
Posted on 11 Mar 2011 by Paul Jackson.
As I speak… err, type, the Cubs are getting set to open up the second half of Spring Training facing the South-Siders. I’m left wondering why it is so difficult these days to catch a Spring Training game. There are streams online, video and audio I know, but is it just me or was it way easier ten or fifteen years ago to follow the MLB’s exhibition season? I know it doesn’t really matter...
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Byrd in, Strasburg out…for now
Posted on 4 Jul 2010 by Eddie Kim.
In a season in which almost all of the Cubs have been underperforming, one guy has been the exception. Though Marlon Byrd is getting paid a modest $3 million in what is the first year of his three-year contract, he has been the most consistent and hardest working player on the team. Byrd, whose highest qualifying season average is .303, was hitting .310 coming into Sunday. His 9 homeruns are on...
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Can Lee’s 300th turn club?
Posted on 9 Jun 2010 by Eddie Kim.
It's about time. After being held to just 31 runs in the last 11 games, the Cubs touched up Milwaukee's lefty Randy Wolf for eight runs before he was chased in the fifth inning of Wednesday's Cubs' 9-4 win over the Brewers. Derrek Lee led the offensive charge for the team, blasting his first homerun since May 25 and the 300th of his career. Hopefully, getting this milestone homerun off of his b...
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Cubs edge LA, but concerns remain
Posted on 27 May 2010 by Eddie Kim.
This was a huge series win. After completing a very successful 3-2 road trip, the Cubs came home to start a very important homestand against two teams knocking on the door of first place: the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals. Part of me feared that the Cubs would return to Wrigley assuming that the Dodgers and Cardinals were clearly superior ballclubs and get whipped during the homes...
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Silva, Zambrano, and winning
Posted on 19 May 2010 by Eddie Kim.
It looks like the Carlos Zambrano experiment is over. A day after manager Lou Piniella announced that Zambrano would be stretched out in the bullpen for the purposes of re-entering him into the rotation, Piniella asked Zambrano to close out Colorado by pitching the ninth inning of Tuesday's 6-2 win over the Rockies. But we shouldn't read too much into that: it was a move made out of necessity. ...
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Castro not ready for bigs
Posted on 11 May 2010 by Eddie Kim.
You might be thinking that it's easy for me to say that Starlin Castro is not ready for the major leagues, considering he just came off of a three-error game. But, physical errors are not what I am talking about. Physical errors are inevitable and given Castro's reputation as a good defender, they are not a large cause for concern. However, it's the mental errors which are concerning. After hav...
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Castro leads rout with 6 RBI
Posted on 7 May 2010 by Eddie Kim.
It didn't take Starlin Castro very long to get settled in. Not to be outdone by Atlanta's Jason Heyward, Castro also hit a three-run homerun in the first at-bat of his career — but he didn't stop there. In fact, Castro ended the day with a major league record 6 RBI's in his debut and led the Cubs to a 14-7 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Friday. After suffering a three-game sweep at t...
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The Right (field) Wall
Posted on 5 May 2009 by Jarred Coxford.
Okay, so Big Papi ain't exactly what we Red Sox fans wished he would be this season. But what better place for him to get hit bat going than the Bronx. The right field bleachers have been a magnet for dingers this season. Big Papi has to settle down and get going. Hitting a mere .222 this season, Ortiz has no homeruns to his credit yet. He had a nice game against the Yanks on Monday night&...
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