December 2010
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That Chris Davis Trade is Still Percolating – With Additional Players
As we reported last week, the Chicago Cubs and Texas Rangers are working on a trade involving first baseman Chris Davis, and at least one of Cubs’ catchers Welington Castillo and Robinson Chirinos. The two teams are still working on the deal, but the Cubs are looking to have reliever Darren O’Day added, according to [...]
Lukewarm Stove: Cubs to Meet with Carlos Pena for Second Time
One thing I love best about the Hot (Lukewarm) Stove season are the conflicting rumors. On the one hand, we hear that the Cubs are hot on Adam LaRoche, and want to sign him “soon.” On the other, we here things like this: The Chicago Cubs will meet with the agents for free agent first [...]
Lukewarm Stove: Cubs Now Targeting Adam LaRoche, Would Like to Close Deal “Soon”
As I noted earlier, Adam LaRoche’s name has been suspiciously absent from rumors attached to the Chicago Cubs’ first base vacancy – until today. CBS Sports is reporting that, not only are the Cubs interested in LaRoche, but the team is “targeting” him, and would like to close a deal “soon.” Obviously we’ll have more on this later, and will [...]
Lukewarm Stove: Cubs Are “Aggressively” Shopping Tom Gorzelanny
A bit of a surprise rumor from the Winter Meetings: Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting on Twitter that the Chicago Cubs are “aggressively” shopping lefty starter Tom Gorzelanny this week. Given that (a) the team is looking for another starting pitcher, (b) Gorzelanny was effective as a starter last year, and (c) Gorzelanny is going to cost [...]
Lukewarm Stove: Derrek Lee, Carlos Pena, Brad Hawpe, Adam LaRoche
Some of us have wondered openly why Derrek Lee’s name is never brought up in first base rumors for the Chicago Cubs. He’s obviously familiar with the organization, he’s solid defensively, and he should be inexpensive. Sounds like a perfect fit, no? The Cubs are not interested in re-signing Derrek Lee, who is being pursued [...]
Best Guess On Amount Cubs Have to Spend is $10 Million
While we’ve known for some time that the Chicago Cubs 2011 payroll would drop from 2010 (sigh), it has remained unclear just how much General Manager Jim Hendry would have to play with this Winter. Back of the envelope calculations have the guys under contract, including arbitration raises, taking home about $125 million this year. [...]
Remember Hayden Simpson? Yeah, He Still Exists
The Chicago Cubs shocked the rest of the baseball world when they selected Southern Arkansas pitcher Hayden Simpson – a player pegged as a third or fourth rounder – in the first round of the 2010 draft. And then Simpson went down with a bad case of mono, and we didn’t hear much about him [...]
Winter Meetings: Day One
Here’s your 60-second rundown of all things Chicago Cubs with respect to the 2010 MLB Winter Meetings, which got underway in Orlando today: The Cubs were briefly connected to a James Loney trade from the Dodgers, but that rumor was skuttled in favor of a possible Loney/Jonathan Broxton/Prince Fielder swap. At present, even that rumor looks [...]
