Tag Archives: Orlando Cabrera

The Lunacy of Pre-Season Baseball Predictions

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reading articles talking about how the 2010 baseball season is going to turn out.  Everyone has an opinion.  I understand that.  But what some people are doing is actually creating systems to predict the outcome of the upcoming season. Baseball prediction systems are not new.  They’ve been [...]

What’s Next?

It’s always seemed to me that the days following the World Series up until the end of the calendar year were the toughest for baseball fans.  It was like an uphill climb.  Once the new year started, it seemed like things accelerated.  It was almost as if baseball (and it’s fans) were running downhill toward [...]

A Look At The Offseason (Part 1 – Infield)

The Cubs enter the off season with a mixed bag of needs.  Tops on the list is a middle-of-the-order run producer.  If things work out, they’d also like to get a speedy, OBP-type of lead-off hitter.  They may even look at adding a bullpen arm. In the field, the Cubs would prefer to add a [...]