May 2011
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Fifth Starter Spot: It’s Doug Davis
His short outing at AAA yesterday was indeed the tea leaf to read – Doug Davis will start on Saturday for the Chicago Cubs, the first day in a week and a half that they need a fifth starter. Davis, 35, hasn’t pitched in the bigs since mid-2010, and he wasn’t particularly good that year [...]
God’s Wrath Watch: Geovany Soto Officially Placed on the Disabled List
Hamburgers. Though it’s pretty much a given that, when the organization tells its next-in-line catcher to immediately stop playing baseball, the catcher ahead of him is going on the disabled list, we now know officially that Geovany Soto is headed to the DL and will be out a couple weeks at least. In the also-expected [...]
Cashner and Wells Throwing, But Can They Hit? and Other Bullets – May 11, 2011
In the Cubs/Cardinals series preview, I noted that the Cubs’ pen hadn’t given up a run in 22.1 innings, and quipped that, because I’d mentioned it, they would blow a game during the series. It took one game. Sorry. Randy Wells and Andrew Cashner continue their rehab, each throwing two innings of live batting practice [...]
God’s Wrath Watch: Geovany Soto’s Groin is Strained
Quick. Name the position at which the Chicago Cubs would experience the most severe downgrade on the current roster if the starter went down with injury. *Jeopardy Music* Correct. It’s catcher. And Geovany Soto has a strained left groin muscle. Soto apparently was hurt during Matt Holliday’s at-bat in the Cardinals’ first. The Cubs catcher [...]
Enhanced Box Score: Cardinals 6, Cubs 4 – May 10, 2011
Nothing grinds my gears quite like when the Cubs come back late – and, say, tie the game in the 7th – only to lose it soon thereafter. Well, nothing except a team that consistently outhits its opponents, but keeps losing games. Er, make that except losing to the damn Cardinals, particularly on a night [...]
Series Preview: Cardinals v. Cubs, May 10 – May 12, 2011
Ah, the Cardinals. The St. freaking Louis Cardinals. Just what the Cubs need as they’re coming off a series against another top team in the Central; a series that they Cubs had no business winning but totally should have won. Though, I suppose if there’s a team against whom we’d all love to see the [...]
Missing Milton Bradley and Other Bullets – May 10, 2011
Once again, the series starting today has the look of one where the Cubs should win one (Wednesday’s Garza v. Westbrook tilt), should lose one (Thursday’s Coleman v. Garcia), and could win the other one (today’s Zambrano v. Carpenter). It feels like eons since the Cubs won the first game of a series, so it [...]
So, What’s the Plan if the Chicago Cubs Fall Out of Contention, and How Safe is Jim Hendry’s Job?
No, this is not a doom and gloom post based on one frustrating series loss. It’s also not just off-day filler. This weekend, a tipster indicated that the Chicago Cubs do indeed have a plan in place if the team falls far out of contention by mid-season. Other teams have already started sniffing the not-yet-dead [...]
