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Latest on Cubs’ Pursuit of Pitching Reveals, Well, Very Little (But it’s All We’ve Got)
“GIVE US MOAR RUMERZ!” comes the bloodthirsty cry of the rabble. So I, desperate for something to slake that thirst,…
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Cubs Listed as Best Fits for Arrieta and Cobb, Darvish and Cain…Not so Much
Stop me if you’ve heard this already, but it’s been a slow winter when it comes to free agency. I…
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The Rundown: Slow Weekend, Forget About Cain and Cobb, MLB Social Media Hijinx, Lackey a Yankees Option?
How was your weekend? Mine was relaxing, thanks for asking. My New Year’s resolution (one week late) is to keep…
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Kaplan: Cubs Offered Cobb $42 Million Over Three Years, Epstein Unwilling to Go Longer
Even in an offseason rife with gulfs between what players are asking and what teams are offering, Alex Cobb’s situation…
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The Pros and Cons of Signing Arrieta, Darvish, and Cobb
If you had told me two months ago that Alex Cobb would get too expensive and that the Cubs would…
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Cubs Willing to Give Arrieta 4 Years, ‘About $110 Million’
Bruce Levine reported earlier Tuesday that the Cubs were showing “renewed interest” in Jake Arrieta, but didn’t offer much in…
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Could Odd Market Bring Cubs and Cobb Back Together?
So, uh, this offseason has been really strange. There’s been very little activity while rumors of interest in both trade…
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Arrieta Reportedly Expecting at Least 6 Years, $160 Million
Though it contains little we hadn’t already known or assumed, Bruce Levine’s recent report on the Cubs’ search for pitching…
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Heyman: Cobb’s Camp Could Be Comping Leake’s Contract
Though his Cubs bullets contained little we haven’t already either theorized or concluded definitively, Jon Heyman gave us an interesting…
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Though Unexpected at First, Cubs’ Pursuit of Darvish Makes Perfect Sense Now
When I first saw the MLB Trade Rumors predictions for Yu Darvish, my immediate reaction was to wonder what kind of…
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