Recent content by EyeoftheIllini

That’s certainly a part of it, but I don’t know about much of the grumbling. Plenty on the Cubs team, individual players and staff not being up to snuff. I’m not saying some of it hasn’t been warranted and expected. Fans in general and probably more so those on boards and social media tend to...

Nice win for Cubbies. For all the grumbling on her, the Cubs have the 5th best record in baseball.

I agree. Was joking to further emphasize the year he’s had. As my previous post said, next Spring Training is when he’ll likely truly gain relevancy at the MLB level. Somewhat interesting is that Ayers DHed in his first AAA game and Cards had 4 SBs against Moises. He caught yesterday, went 0-4...

Maybe he won’t wait until next season to join the big league club.

Not having read the original source article, I’d wonder how accurate that is across individual segments of first year players in summer league. Guards versus centers it would seem like there could be quite a variance. Also, 250 minutes isn’t a lot. Is it the same breakout for guys playing 5 mpg...

As others have pointed out, he’s better defensively with his arm being his main calling card. He’s only been catching full-time since his last year in college, having split time in previous seasons between there,OF and 1B. So not sure it is accurate as someone said that he is a defensive...

Not a bad draft when you potentially add 3 new guys to your top 10 prospect list.

Not Cubs related, but he’s probably right.

Cubs took another 8 pitchers with their final 11 picks to finish with 16 of 21 making their living on the bump. I haven’t read anything about their draft other than on the first rounder — spinning the ball rather than big velocity is his game — but let’s hope we found some diamonds in the rough.

Think the Cubs brass has figured out that pitchers get hurt and the farm system is way too light with pitching?

Agree with all the sentiment that it’s his first game in summer league and the rough outing doesn’t mean all that much. At the same time, if he had 23 points on 5 of 8 from three, plenty on the board would be head over heels positive. Going to take some time. Good thing is from the little I...