Cub Tracks’ brief cases

Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™. Here we have material from current beat writers, bloggers, and the occasional in-house habitué, moonlighting. These pieces generally center around #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball.

The Cubs are very unlikely to win the offseason. But they didn’t plan to, so that’s okay. The teams that do seldom win in the regular season, it seems to me. But they have to be acting on some kind of data to do so, don’t they? Don’t they?

Or is it all about multimillion-dollar impulse buys?

Dang. Hey Santa, I wear a Martin in size D28 and a Rickenbacker in size 4003 Jetglo. I also wear green buds in size 28 grams. See if Steve Cohen is willing to float that stuff. Ten grand is pocket change for him.

Did you see Get Back? OMG. I dunno about you, but I talk to myself. About mid-day Saturday, I was doing it in a Scouse accent.

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• Richard Johnson (Cubbies Crib*): Can the Chicago Cubs fix what’s wrong with Alec Mills? “In terms of run value, the four-seamer has always been one of his two least effective pitches.”
• Russell Dorsey (Chicago Sun-Times* {$}): Three realistic free-agent targets for the Cubs. “Outfielder Michael Conforto is a coveted free agent, but is he a piece the Cubs could build with?”
• Brett Taylor (Bleacher Nation*): Free Agent righty Jon Gray is viewed as a “Good candidate to sign within the next week”. “... something from Jon Morosi...”
• Todd Johnson (Cubs Insider*): Cubs Organizational Breakdown, Pt. 2 – Chase Strumpf leads way among deep, unproven third base group. “... they’ll have a solid player manning the hot corner for nearly every affiliate.”
• Mia Perlman (Cubbies Crib*): Chicago Cubs undoubtedly made the right call in trading Kris Bryant. “... it’s looking more and more like Jed Hoyer made the right call in trading the former MVP.”
• Matt Borelli (Dodger Blue*): Longtime scout Tom Myers leaves Cubs for role with Dodgers. “According to Patrick Mooney.”

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