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WallyWood They don’t need Greinke, or even Verlander, next season. Without those 2 former Cy Young winners they still have 6 really good starting pitchers: Lance McCullers, Jake Odorizzi, Framber Valdez, Jose Urquidy, Luis Garcia, and Cristian Javier. And those two vets are their most expensive players, so all the money they will save goes to re-signing Correa to a long-term deal. No way will they let him walk like they did with Springer last year. Ronk325 So a rotation consisting of a washed Odorizzi, injury prone McCullers, and 4 guys with little experience and you don’t see a p...

The Cubs have retired 5 uniform numbers, honoring 6 players: 10: Ron Santo 14: Ernie Banks 23: Ryne Sandberg 26: Billy Williams 31: Ferguson Jenkins and Greg Maddux You probably knew those....

Previous anniversaries of Cubs' first league game By JohnW53 on May 7, 2021, 4:43am CDT + The Cubs are scheduled to host the Pirates today, May 7 -- the 150th anniversary of their first "league" game, also played at home: their National Association debut, a victory over the Cleveland Forest Citys. After 3 innings at the Union Grounds, the White Stockings, as they were known then, led, 14-1. But they barely hung on to win, 14-12. I described that game in detail in a previous post. Then I wondered how the Cubs had fared on other significant anniversaries of that historic win. Here ...

This Date in Baseball (April 17 1892 — In the first Sunday game in National League history, Cincinnati defeated St. Louis 5-1. 1924 — Baby Doll Jacobson of the St. Louis Browns hit for the cycle in a 6-3 loss at the Chicago White Sox. 1932 — New York first baseman Bill Terry tied an NL record with 21 putouts as the Giants beat Boston 5-0 behind Hal Schumacher’s two-hitter. 1951 — In his first major league game, Mickey Mantle went 1-for-4 as the New York Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 5-0. 1953 — Mickey Mantle cleared the bleachers at Griffith Stadium with a 565-foot home run ...

Cubs oldest, youngest debuts by position players By JohnW53 on Apr 5, 2021, 6:07am CDT + Do you remember Al Heist? He played center field for the Cubs in 1960 and 1961. In 150 games, he batted .260/.338/.390. He hit 8 home runs in 555 plate appearances, including a walk-off grand slam against the Braves on April 15, 1961. That was his second career homer. His first had come Sept. 9, 1960, at St. Louis, in his 26th game as a Cub. He played 15 before the season ended, for a total of 41. Heist was 32 years, 286 days old when he made his Major League debut in a 6-0 loss at St. Louis ...