Silva Leads Cubs Past A's
The Cubs defeated the Oakland A's Wednesday and Carlos Silva had his best performance of a difficult spring.
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The Cubs defeated the Oakland A's Wednesday and Carlos Silva had his best performance of a difficult spring.
Forbes has released their annual report of the value of Major League Baseball teams and the Cubs are among the five. The average value of teams has increased 7 percent from last year to an all-time high of $523 million.
Springtime brings the annual battle between a baseball fan's heart, and his head. Hope tries, often successfully, to defeat reason as possibilities are envisioned.
The Chicago Cubs have sent four players to minor league camp, bringing their spring training roster down to 36 players.
The Chicago Cubs were 75-87 last season and finished in fifth place in the NL Central. It was a season that didn't provide much reason for optimism in 2011.
Randy Wells retired 18 straight batters, Marlon Byrd reached base three times and the Chicago Cubs beat a San Francisco Giants' split squad 3-2 in 10 innings Sunday.
With only ten days left in spring training, it's hard to give the Chicago Cubs an identity. Matt Spiegel and Barry Rozner take on that task as they talked with Jim Hendry today on Hit & Run.
The Chicago Cubs went seven innings before getting a run on the board. San Diego had no trouble getting 14 runs off of Garza.
Carlos Zambrano isn't your typical pitcher. Of course there's the whole anger management thing, but he's also a very effective player in the batters box.
Thursday, The Chicago Cubs took a late lead over the Oakland A's with three home runs. The Cubs couldn't hang on, however, as Oakland took the lead with a three-run ninth inning.
