Offseason Lowdown: Health is Key for Cubs
Whether or not the Big Z gets his contract extension, he’ll need to step up and deliver another Cy Young type season if the Cubs plan to rebound from 2006’s disaster.
The Cubs spent plenty of money this offseason in the hopes that they’ll finally get over the Curse of the Billy Goat or Bartman or whatever dark forces conspire to keep them out of the World Series for the past 60+ years. Additions like Alfonso Soriano, Ted Lilly and Cliff Floyd will definitely help, but what this team needs more than anything is for its incumbents to stay healthy. In this week’s Offseason Lowdown, we try to determine how much Chicago has improved after last season’s debacle.
We explore the team’s key acquisitions, discuss its strengths and weaknesses, project the lineup and rotation, answer the key question facing the club and highlight some prospects that may soon show up at Wrigley.
We tackle all this and plenty more in this week’s Offseason Lowdown.
How do you know it is time for some baseball? Some might say it is the smell of freshly cut grass. Others will say the smell of leather from the glove. Me, I go with the first Kerry Wood injury report. Thats the signal of Spring Training for me.
Wood hurt himself this time outside of baseball as he slipped getting out of a hot tub. Maybe practicing for that run to 1st base inside the tub WASN’T such a good idea eh Kerry?
Wood is listed as day to day, which is an upgrade from his otherwise certain stay on the permanent D.L.
Ha ha, totally. How perfect was that as one of the first news items to come out of ST? Meanwhile, I list him as my fantasy sleeper for the Cubs.
Sleeper… like sleeping beauty? You know… she didn’t wake up until a prince kissed her. I don’t see anyone in baseball going John Ameechi and coming out in time for him to get a pucker on the kisser.
Seriously. Wood could pull a Smoltz and it wouldn’t shock me. Would that be Tashayn Prince?