Rebuild or Re Tool?   This weekend the Cubs will be playing one of the hottest teams in baseball, the Atlanta Braves.   The Braves are currently on a 14 game winning streak. The Cubs meanwhile are on a 10 game losing streak. This is some of the worst baseball the Cubs have played since before the Theo and Jed …

May we hopefully win some games this month?   After a disappointing two game set with the White Sox, May is looking bleak. The Cubs have not been playing great baseball lately. Over their last 10 games, they are averaging 3.7 runs a game. If you take away that 10th game, where they scored 21 against the Pirates, they are …

Crosstown Classic. Redline Rivalry. Crosstown Cup. North vs. South. Cubs vs. Sox. While New York and LA may have two teams as well, Chicago’s rivalry is unlike any other. Dating back to the early 1900s when Charles Comiskey moved his team from Saint Paul to Chicago, there have been two teams fighting for supremacy. Between 1903 and 1942, the two …

The Cubs are off to a pretty good start. Winning two of three (fourth game was postponed to May 30th as part of a double header) against the division favorite Milwaukee Brewers to open the season, the Cubs went to Pittsburgh and split a quick two game set. Starting 3-2 isn’t too bad for a team that was projected to …

Opening Day is finally here! The Cubs and Brewers will play the first game of the 2022 season, after the postponement of the Yankees vs. Red Sox game. With that being said, the Cubs will have a lot of eyes on them as this season gets started. They have been projected to win as many games as 79, and as …

Taking a Look into the Cubs Schedule, Month by Month: April   We’re quickly approaching the start of the 2022 MLB season, and I along with other Cubs fans are wondering how the team will fare. The Cubs 25-man roster is slowly taking shape, with some interesting decisions for manager David Ross to be made. One thing is clear, the …

PECOTA Doesn’t Like the Cubs   PECOTA, which stands for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, is Baseball Prospectus’s proprietary system that projects player and team performance PECOTA is a system that takes a player’s past performance and tries to project the most likely outcome for the following season. It looks at all of the numbers, and all the …

LET THERE BE BASEBALL!   It’s March 10th, at 2:16 pm, and there will be baseball! The news, broken by Jeff Passan, says the Major League Players Association and Major League Baseball have reached a tentative agreement on a new CBA. The final vote from the players came through at 26-12 in favor of the new deal. Players can report …

After 10 days of the players and owners being in Jupiter, Florida, we finally have some answers.  The first two series have been canceled after the players rejected the owners “best and final offer.”  The exact outcome the owners were looking for. They were able to use these meetings to flip the blame onto the players, but it’s not working. …

Is the MLB Season at Risk? I have said the past few weeks that I have been hopeful that the MLB season would start on time. With each passing day, I get more and more pessimistic that we are going to miss games. The season is at risk. The MLB started this lockout on December 2nd, 2021, a day after …