September 2009
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Jeff Stevens to Chicago
The Chicago Cubs keep pulling up the youngsters to join the big club. Today’s move saw reliever Jeff Stevens, who has absolutely dominated at AAA Iowa this year, come back to the Cubs for the fourth time this year. Look for Stevens to get a serious opportunity to make the Cubs bullpen next year.
Series Preview: Cubs v. Pirates, September 7 – September 9, 2009
The Chicago Cubs head to PNC to take on the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Cubs probably could have used a few series against the Pirates in August. A refresher on the series preview here at Bleacher Nation: The idea is to hook you up with the bare minimum of what you need to know about every [...]
Esmailin Caridad to Chicago
The Cubs continue to expand their roster to include young guys who’ve already spent some time with the big league club this year, yesterday calling up Esmailin Caridad. Caridad, 25, was effective in seven plus innings with the Cubs earlier this year. With AAA Iowa as a starter, he’s put up a 4.17 ERA. If [...]
Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 2, Mets 4 – September 6, 2009
Another good pitching effort, another sad sack offensive effort. It happens. To the Cubs.
Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 5, Mets 3 – September 5, 2009
An all-around solid game for the Cubs. If they’ve proved anything this year it is this: they can beat an injury-depleted Mets club. Hooray.
Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 2, Mets 6 – September 4, 2009
The Cubs finally got a nice outting from Carlos Zambrano. Not that it mattered, of course.
Thomas Diamond is a Chicago Cub
Today the Cubs claimed a player off waivers! But, he’s a 26 year old former top prospect who’s struggled to do much of anything outside of the operating room in the past few years. As Rotoworld says: He had been designated for assignment earlier this week. Diamond, the former top pitching prospect, is now 26 [...]
God’s Wrathwatch: Alfonso Soriano is Having Surgery, May Be Done for Year
By Brett on September 6, 2009
Alfonso Soriano has not been right for a long time. It seemed he was just having a bad year, slumping as he aged. Soriano, the streakiest hitter in baseball, was simply met head on by a deeper and longer “bad” streak than he’d yet seen in his career. And then the news came out that [...]
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