Lou Piniella stated before Saturday’s game that his crew is not in the stretch run of the season yet, but are in more of a jog at this point. While it is not September 1st, the 2007 season is coming down the back stretch, the Cubs have 33 games left, 17 at home and 16 [...]

….What would you do? While the team enjoys a scheduled day off, a good baseball executive, especially the GM never gets time off during the season, and those long days have a tendency to get even longer as the July 31st non-waiver trade deadline approaches. There have been a couple of names mentioned in the [...]

After months upon months of analyzing every free agent signing, every coaching hire and discussing every rumor known to man, all of the speculation can be put to rest starting on Monday. Baseball fever….catch it!!! Lou Piniella’s opening day roster is set and the lineup for the first game has been announced but with two [...]

The roster is all but set as spring training is coming down the backstretch….opening day is just 18 days away. The final battles should be between Angel Guzman and Wade Miller for the last spot in the rotation with Mark Prior likely remaining in Arizona for extended spring training and starting the season on the [...]

The Cubs are a quarter of the way through their exhibition season and the first round of cuts and reassignments are expected soon. But have they had a good first week of games? Some of the performances thus far are noteworthy….Felix Pie, Matt Murton, Derrek Lee and Michael Barrett on the offensive side and Jason [...]

As the players are enjoying their last few days before Spring Training starts, the mainstream media preseason predictions are rolling in. Like always the predictions vary from publication to publication but the reoccurring theme is the Cubs will be better in ’07….that’s good to hear considering after last season there is truly only one way [...]

As the City of Chicago prepares for Super Bowl XLI, the Cubs are preparing to start Spring Training in 14 days. Recently there was a report by Ken Rosenthal on FoxSports.com that mentioned a few of the possible storylines that will be worth following in 2007. The Cubs were obviously a part of the discussion [...]

The first month of the New Year is all but complete and there are only four Saturdays left before the first Spring Training game of the Piniella era. The last eight days have seen more activity from the North Side of Chicago. From the signing and commitment of Jeff Samardzija to the release of Glendon [...]

With the signing of Cliff Floyd on Wednesday and other than a possible trade of Jacque Jones, the list of players Lou Piniella has to pull from to form the 2007 version of the Cubs is complete. Baring injury the Cubs should have an explosive offense and enough pitching to play meaningful games in September….a [...]

The lack of quality pitching in the game has never been as apparent as this year. Just look at the contracts being paid out for average, at best, pitchers. For instance, is Barry Zito really a number one pitcher? Granted he has won a Cy Young, but his numbers have declined the past few seasons, [...]