Tonight former Cub Rich Hill faces his old team in the National League playoffs. Everyone is like, “Rich Hill? THAT guy who used to be a Cub? HIM? #CracksKnuckles #BringIt” What can I tell you about Rich Hill? 1) Fun autograph He has a snappy autograph. He uses the bridge in the H to dot …
What MLB team plays your style of baseball? What would your criteria be for picking your favorite team? When evaluating players for my Hall of Fame, I use three criteria: low strikeouts high stealing excellent defense In other words: contact hitting, speed, and defense. If I apply those three criteria to the 2016 MLB teams, my six …
Every Cubs fan is very excited to have slugger Kyle Schwarber back in 2017. The first-round draft pick has been out for the season with a torn ACL and LCL after just two games into the 2016 season. We all awed and oo’ed at Schwarber launch a playoff homerun ON TOP of the Jumbotron at …
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We all remember Shawon Dunston as striking out a lot, but he was only in the top ten once, in 1986. In fact, Ron Santo had more seasons with 100+ strikeouts than Shawon Dunston. Sandberg has the same number of 100+ strikeout seasons as Dunston with two. Cubs with 100+ strikeouts in a season Name …
Shane Victorino signed minor league deal with the Cubs. A great signing, even though the Cubs are full of outfielders already. He’s the type of player that I really enjoy. He doesn’t strike out much Can steal bases Is good defensively Those three pieces of criteria is what I use to determine who is in MY Hall …
With Starlin Castro traded to the Yankees, where does he stand among the all-time Chicago Cubs greats? Starlin played six seasons for the Cubs. His 3,524 at bats places him 28th among all Cubs. Therefore, we can use that 28th ranking as a benchmark for his other stats. Anything above 28 would be above what …
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The great data folks over at fivethirtyeight put together a great chart of all the MLB teams and their twitter follower numbers. The Cubs rank 9th overall, but are second in growth! Only the Blue Jays saw more growth with 570,000 new followers this year.
Sixteen Cubs are on Twitter. 14 of them have tweeted thanks to the Cubs fans for the great season (see all 14 tweets). That means two of the Cubs players with Twitter accounts have not thanked the fans yet for the great season. 1. Javier Báez (@javy23baez) has a fair amount of tweets with 1,398; …
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What a wonderful season for the Cubs. Thirteen of the Cubs players have publicly thanked the fans for the great season. What a year. Thank you for everything Cubs fans — Kyle Hendricks (@kylehendricks28) October 22, 2015 Thank you to all of the @Cubs fans for a great year and an awesome experience! You guys …
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Why does the Cubs logo still have a trademark instead of registered mark? –Or perhaps the TM has a different meaning! 164 meanings for TM are given by Acronymfinder. Here are some of the highlights: Time Machine: All this time, the Cubs logo was predicting the Back to the Future World Series win in 2015! Trust …
Phil Cavarretta is like Ken Griffey, Sr? The first nine players on Phil Cavarretta’s “Similarity Score” is a bunch of guys from Pre-WWII. Dixie Walker (915) Wally Pipp (911) Sam West (903) Augie Galan (899) Harry Davis (891) Wally Moses (890) Gee Walker (890) Ben Chapman (887) Ed Konetchy (882) Ken Griffey (880) But then …
Yesterday Starlin Castro became the youngest Cub to reach 900 hits. I was trying to find who was the youngest Cub to reach 1,000 and came across a July 6, 2011 article by Bleacher Report giving a list of “12 Players Who should Reach 3,000 Career Hits“. Well, it’s been almost four years. Let’s see how …
Did you know that Andre Dawson lead the NL in hit by pitch four times? Hit By Pitch 1978 NL 12 (1st) 1979 NL 6 (9th) 1980 NL 6 (1st) 1981 NL 7 (1st) 1982 NL 8 (2nd) 1983 NL 9 (1st) 1986 NL 6 (6th) 1987 NL 7 (5th) 1993 AL 13 (3rd) Career …
The Cubs managed to squeak two players onto the All-Star roster this year. Both Starlin Castro and Anthony Rizzo batted in the same inning. Castro came up first. The announcers were talking about the Cubs young talent; and how Castro is a cornerstone of the talent. He strikes out. Anthony Rizzo steps up as the …
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(Ryan Theriot breaks his bat in a September 22, 2007 game where the Cubs (82-73) defeated the Reds (66-89) with a score of 9-5. Batting 8th in the lineup Theriot went 3-for-4 with two runs scored.) Recently, scrappy infielder Ryan Theriot retired at 34 years old. Unbelievably, he lead the National League in singles during 2008, …
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