Andrew Cashner

Your Morning Phil: Cashner, draft, Astros

Talking baseball while congratulating the Boston Bruins on one of the great playoff finishes of all time: 1. In less than two years with the Cubs’ organization, Anthony Rizzo has earned himself a $41 million guarantee, which he says guarantees...

Tags: Anthony Rizzo, Ryan Zimmerman, Texas Rangers, Jed Hoyer , Thomas Ricketts

Pitching help a long way off for Cubs

So much for Anthony Rizzo's victory lap. On the day after Rizzo's critically acclaimed Chicago debut, the Cubs demonstrated nicely what exactly he has gotten himself into. The 17-1 loss to the Mets wasn't quite like that horrific, fireball-generating...

Tags: New York Mets, Billy Williams, Ramon Ramirez, Steve Clevenger, Heavy Engineering

Awful season aside, Cubs on the right track

Nineteen cents. That's what tickets in the third row of Section 533 were advertised at on StubHub Monday afternoon. As for the rest of Wrigley Field, it looks like most of those tickets couldn't be given away. No surprise there, not with the Bears...

Tags: Paul Maholm, James Russell, Jeff Samardzija, American League, Tony Campana

Travis Wood crashes Anthony Rizzo's beatification

This one is too easy: Anthony Rizzo finally got called up from the minors and will make his Cubs debut after going 0-for-his-last-9 in Iowa. So, yeah, he’s a perfect Cub. See? Told you it was too easy. But seriously, folks, Rizzo will start...

Tags: New York Mets, Anthony Rizzo, Chris Volstad, Jim Hendry , Johan Santana

Good time for Cubs to leave and Rizzo to arrive

The Cubs will leave town and then figure to call up Anthony Rizzo, and that’s the right order. The headache-inducing rules regarding free agency forced the Cubs to wait until a certain number of days had expired during the season. Don’t ask....

Tags: John Danks, Comcast SportsNet (tv network), Reed Johnson, Eduardo Escobar, Anthony Rizzo

Wonder why Marmol is still a Cub

I don’t know why Carlos Marmol is still a Cub. I don’t know if Marmol knows why he’s still a Cub. Only Theo Epstein knows, and he should know better. Marmol is the European sports car of closers --- finely tuned and destined to cost a...

Tags: Carlos Zambrano, Chicago, Jeff Samardzija, Thomas Ricketts, Kevin Youkilis

Padres ownership situation a mess

Forget the Mets' financing troubles attached to the Fred Wilpon/Bernie Madoff connection. Look past the Red Sox's franchise-reshaping, where these days only the uniforms seem unchanged, and the slow-moving sale of the Dodgers. The chaos at the Padres'...

Tags: Jerry Reinsdorf, New York Mets, Jed Hoyer , Carlos Guillen, Thomas Ricketts

Power rankings: No. 26 Cubs

En route to 91 losses last season and a radical regime change, the Cubs were outscored by 102 runs. As it happens, half of those can be put down to talent and half of them to playing the game well. Bill James tracks manufactured runs, both created and...

Tags: Paul Maholm, New York Mets, Lou Piniella, Jed Hoyer , Thomas Ricketts

Does Sveum know he's reading from a bad script?

Dale Sveum sounded so grounded, so non-plussed, so honest even before he was introduced as the new Cubs manager. And now this. Reading what Sveum was saying at the winter meetings makes you wonder if he already has gotten Cubbed. Or maybe someone...

Tags: Terry Francona, Jim Hendry , Dale Sveum, Jed Hoyer , Thomas Ricketts

Isn't it time someone important became alarmed over Cubs' arm injuries?

It wasn’t that Carlos Marmol threw a wild pitch to lose Monday’s game inWashington. It wasn’t that Marmol had no idea there was a runner on base and did nothing to stop Jayson Werth from stealing third to set up the aggravating ending....

Tags: Carlos Zambrano, Theft, Athletes, Crime, Law and Justice, Jayson Werth

Injury plagued season smells of 2004

Chicago Cubs magic number = 103