There It Is! Kris Bryant Hits Home Run No. 14 to Give the Cubs the Lead

With the Chicago Cubs Convention going on, team owner and chairman Tom Ricketts hopped on 670 The Score today, and was also quoted extensively in a piece at The Athletic. I wanted to spotlight some of the financial remarks, as...

Yes, I read the Jesse Rogers piece on the Chicago Cubs. Being that it was Christmas Eve when it dropped, candidly, I wanted to take a breath before I more openly contemplated its next-level meaning. I never quite know exactly...

What a day. You had the full scope of the Opening of Cubs Convention - great to talk to so many folks! - wrapped around Roki Sasaki making his decision (or, well, making public a decision that was maybe made...

Among the remaining POSSIBLE things the Chicago Cubs could do this offseason, signing closer Tanner Scott would probably be just about the best. He not only fits an obvious need and dramatically improves an entire group on the roster, but...

I wasn't able to make it to the Cubs Convention's Opening Ceremonies tonight (I'll be there tomorrow!), and I'm very sad about that. But on the bright side, Brett can't get anything to post from inside the hilariously packed halls...

I am genuinely tempted not to write anything at all about this besides sharing the news. As everyone in the entire world knew: Roki Sasaki is signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers. There were never any finalists, there were never...

Although Jed Hoyer and the Chicago Cubs still have time to find that much-needed (and implicitly promised) back-end free-agent reliever this offseason, two solid options just came off the board. This afternoon, news dropped that Jose Leclerc signed a one-year,...

Yesterday, Chicago Cubs President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer sat in with Dave Kaplan and Gordon Wittenmyer for a long, wide-ranging, and refreshingly candid conversation on the ReKAP podcast. Among the many topics of discussion? The Cubs remaining offseason needs/plans (basically, the...

One thing that most of us have suspected is that the Chicago Cubs' decision to non-tender Kyle Schwarber was (1) entirely motivated by an extreme need to cut costs after the "biblical losses" of the pandemic year, and (2) something...

I ate so many Do-Rite donuts yesterday that I might not be able to eat more than an additional three today. Shameful stuff. Oh yeah, also, CUBS CONVENTION! It starts today, and I will be there wandering around with a...