Corey Seager won the 2016 NL Rookie of the Year with a unanimous 100% vote. Kris Bryant won it last year with a unanimous vote. Jose Abreau won it the year before that, also with unanimous vote. Three years in a row with a unanimous Rookie of the Year. How often do Rookie of Years …
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The Cubs are World Series champions! 22 Cubs players have given thanks to the fans on Twitter, some gave thanks several times on Twitter. In total there are 38 tweets. The player giving the most thanks to fans is Jon Lester with four. The player with the least likes and retweets on his tweet of …
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Even though the Cubs haven’t reached the World Series since 1945, they have played in a lot of World Series games in the first half of the 20th century. In fact, the Cubs played in the third most games. Most World Series games played, 1903-1945 Yankees (72 games) Giants (72 games) Cubs (53 games) Cardinals …
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The most comprehensive list of every single Cubs team and player record for the World Series. I stayed up until 1am the night before game 1 of the 2016 World Series to compile this incredible list. Which Cub hit the most home runs in the World Series in his entire career? Answer: Frank Demaree with …
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 …
