The Cubs continued making moves for the 2022 roster while the beginning of spring training in Mesa, Arizona, loomed. The biggest, boldest, and the riskiest move the Cubs made this offseason was acquiring Japan’s latest slugger, Seiya Suzuki, on a 5-year, 70 million dollar deal. Suzuki, 27, has played professionally in Japan for nine seasons. Many teams eyed him as …

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 …

Naturally, every team plays their division rivals the most. For the Cubs, that’s NL Central, and it’s been a pretty unpredictable division for the last few years. Definitely less predictable than AL West, for example. So, it’s a pretty natural conclusion that the Cubs’ division rivals will either give them a lot of wins or a lot of losses, which …

Baseball made its long-anticipated return Thursday after a dreadful 99-day lockout. On Thursday, both sides agreed on a tentative agreement, bringing baseball back to fans worldwide.  Many players signed with new teams before the owner-promoted lockout. Free agency began right away on Thursday, but zero moves were made. During the lockout, no teams could speak with free agents, so a …

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. …

I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking about some of the Cubs’ top prospects, especially with the start of the season being uncertain. Two of those top prospects are Davis and Marquez, both of which can impact the Cubs in a big way this season. Brennen Davis 2021 was an extremely exciting and remarkable year for Brennen Davis, who …

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 …

Every MLB team has exciting prospects, but the Cubs sure have tons of potential in their farm system. Let’s explore it some. This includes all the MiLB levels from Low A (the Myrtle Beach Pelicans) to Triple-A (the Iowa Cubs). As an opening thought, the Cubs’ system is often overlooked in the amount of talent (especially unique talent) that is …

Tom Ricketts, Chairman of the Chicago Cubs, has transformed the North-side of Chicago, elevating the status of the Chicago Cubs and making baseball the sport of Chicago’s community. Brought on in 2009, Tom Ricketts implemented his leadership style, setting goals, providing strategic direction, and allowing the talent to speak the rest. Previously, Ricketts founded capital LLC, a security and investment …