Breakdown: Cubs Draft Picks
Here's a look at the Cubs' first three draft picks in 2012 First-Year Player Draft.
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Here's a look at the Cubs' first three draft picks in 2012 First-Year Player Draft.
The 6-foot-2, 180-pound Almora batted .603 with six home runs and 34 RBI in 25 games for Mater Academy last season.
Ryan Vogelsong won his fourth straight decision, Buster Posey scored the go-ahead run on a double-play groundball by Joaquin Arias in the seventh inning and the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs 3-2 on Monday for a four-game sweep.
If the Cubs can find someone willing to pay the roughly $45 million remaining on Alfonso Soriano's contract, the veteran outfielder would be open to a trade.
This is the most important week of the year for the Cubs. It will likely determine how Theo Epstein's first season as the team president is remembered.
Barry Zito pitched 8 1-3 scoreless innings for his 150th career win and Joaquin Arias snapped an 18 at-bat hit-less stretch with an RBI single that led the San Francisco Giants to a 2-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday.
Matt Cain pitched into the ninth inning on the way to winning his fifth straight start and the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Saturday.
Chicago's slumbering offense woke up just long enough to give the San Francisco Giants a scare. Like much of the season, the Cubs just couldn't keep it going.
And here at the quarter-way mark of the Cubs' season, I thought it would be interesting to see just what Sandberg, the team's twice-spurned managerial candidate, has been up to so far in 2012.
The Cubs announced Friday they have claimed right-handed pitcher Jairo Asencio off waivers from the Cleveland Indians.
