Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
Mark Prior is still holding on to that major league dream and this time it may actually work out for him. The Boston Red Sox signed Prior to a minor league deal on May 2, and shockingly the righty has pitched well for Triple-A Pawtucket and could be on the ...
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Friday, June 15th, 2012
This week's Sports Illustrated includes a sidebar to a feature on Pirates star Andrew McCutcheon calling the MLB 2005 Draft Class "the best in decades."
It is hard to dispute that assertion based on much of the talent to come out of it -- Justin Upton, Ryan Zimmerman, Troy Tulowitzki and ...
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Monday, May 28th, 2012
Over the course of time, few teams have done crappy better than the Chicago Cubs. But this year may be the crappiest club the Cubs have ever crapped out.
I won't say that things bottomed out for the Cubs on Sunday, because only the Lord knows where the bottom is for ...
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
The Chicago Cubs are a long way from being a championship contender, but one position they appear to be set at is shortstop. Starlin Castro looks like a surefire star that the team could build around. But in the interest of building for the future, the Cubs' front office might ...
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
Back when the Cubs were for sale, Major League Baseball didn't award the team to Mark Cuban because it was concerned for all of the potential PR headaches he could bring them.
He's no sporting gentleman! He wears t-shirts and criticizes officials!
And so the team was sold to the Ricketts family, ...
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Friday, May 4th, 2012
It has been a really tough year for Chicago Cubs closer Carlos Marmol. The 29-year-old has already blown two saves and has looked generally awful in doing so. Now, he has lost his job.
Cubs manager Dale Sveum called Marmol into his office before Friday's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
In 2003, the Chicago Cubs drafted center fielder Ryan Harvey with the No. 6 pick in the MLB Draft. Like most Cubs first-round picks, he didn't even come close to the show, topping off with two and a half years in Double-A before leaving organized baseball in 2010 and attempting ...
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