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Series Preview: White Sox at Cubs – Know Your Enemy (Fels Edition)

Andy Jonathan August 21, 2020 0

With the series against the Cubs this weekend, I figured I would eschew the normal preview and do something a little more fun. So let’s welcome back the Founding Father of FFUD and overall Maven of the blog: Sam Fels! Sam has been kind enough to answer a few questions about his beloved

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Andy Jonathan April 10, 2020 0

We all pretty much figured that MLB was going to do whatever it could to try and salvage as much of this season as humanly possible, and understandably so. Major League Baseball is a billion dollar business, and those folks don’t like to sit idly by and let that money go up in smoke if […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: Jon Lester

Adam Hess March 23, 2020 0

We come now to the savvy veteran of the Cubs rotation, as we visit with the surprisingly-gracefully-aging Jon Lester. While Lester is certainly far from the pitcher he was during his first two years with the Cubs, he has done a good job avoiding completely falling off a cliff over the past few years, and […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: The Cerebral Assassin

Sam Fels March 16, 2020 0

It feels like there’s some volatility in all of these, until you get to Kyle Hendricks. Since coming up full-time in 2015, Hendricks has put up 3.2 and 4.2 fWAR every season except ’17 when he was hurt for a month, and he would have then as well. His K/9 has been between 7.2 and […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: We Comin’ Out The Yu

Sam Fels March 12, 2020 0

Funny that this one comes a day after Steven Souza Jr. As at this time last year, Yu Darvish was viewed kind of in the same light, except with a much heavier contract and much more pressure. He was injured, and we didn’t know if he would even be upright much less effective. First he […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: Steven Souza Jr.

Sam Fels March 11, 2020 0

There’s probably more attention on Steven Souza than he would have ever guessed, or anyone who knows him would have guessed, simply because he was the only signing the Cubs made this year for the lineup (Jason Kipnis very well might not count). He’s also more of a symbol, which isn’t really fair to him […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: J-Hey What Can I Do

Sam Fels March 10, 2020 0

It says something, though I’m not sure what, that in a winter when the Cubs main objective was to lower their payroll there was barely a whisper about moving Jason Heyward. After all, there can’t be a player who’s had more of a disconnect between his production and his paycheck. But some of that view […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: Maybe He Won’t Put Us In AA

Sam Fels March 9, 2020 0

Perhaps we should have known things would go a little backwards on the Cubs in time when this regime’s first ever draft pick turned out to hit a bunch of ground balls, didn’t walk much, and was surprisingly slow. Kind of everything they told us they wouldn’t do when they walked in the door. Albert […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: Corpse You Up!

Sam Fels March 6, 2020 0

Well, seems pretty convenient to do this on the day that FanGraphs essentially did it for me. But that’s how the cookie crumbles. There’s a lot riding on Ian Happ, and it seems a shaky boat to put your inventory on. But that’s how the Cubs wanted it. And maybe it’s just crazy enough to […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: WITNESS ME

Sam Fels March 5, 2020 0

I’m one of the few who take Kyle Schwarber as a given. And even I think that feeling is fragile. Schwarber gave us a half-season of a dominant hitter. But it’s only a half-season. And it took us a while to get here. Which means it feels like it could easily slip back into the […]