2011 Chicago Cubs: Career Years for Everyone!

[SKO]

In other Castillo news, Welington is hitting .706 this spring.

Sorry. Not a veteran presence. Koyie Dolan all the way.

Word on the street it "Nice Spring, kid.  You should play every day, so we are sending you to Des Moines."

I'm not really that upset about it unless Kwade has Lou's inexplicable need to start Koyie at least twice a week. Geovany is looking as svelte as he's ever looked. Maybe start the guy who was the best offensive catcher in baseball as often as possible.

You're not really that butthurt that a dude who is tearing up the Cactus League might get sent down? Your supposed to be butthurt about this. It's March.

Well, I have to have someone worth watching when I go to the Iowa Cubs games. Did they bring back Jason Dubois for his 19th campaign? What about BOBBY SCALES? Did some other team sign Shawn Estes again so I can sit behind the visiting bullpen and remind him of every shitty start he made in 2003? If not, I need Wellington.

[Quality Start Machine]

In other Castillo news, Welington is hitting .706 this spring.

Sorry. Not a veteran presence. Koyie Dolan all the way.

Word on the street it "Nice Spring, kid.  You should play every day, so we are sending you to Des Moines."

I'm not really that upset about it unless Kwade has Lou's inexplicable need to start Koyie at least twice a week. Geovany is looking as svelte as he's ever looked. Maybe start the guy who was the best offensive catcher in baseball as often as possible.

You're not really that butthurt that a dude who is tearing up the Cactus League might get sent down? Your supposed to be butthurt about this. It's March.

DEY GOTTA BRING UP DAT BEEFCASTLE GUY TO CATCH AND HIT AND WIN DA PENNIT FOR DA CUBBIEZ!!!

[morpheus]

In other Castillo news, Welington is hitting .706 this spring.

Sorry. Not a veteran presence. Koyie Dolan all the way.

Word on the street it "Nice Spring, kid.  You should play every day, so we are sending you to Des Moines."

I'm not really that upset about it unless Kwade has Lou's inexplicable need to start Koyie at least twice a week. Geovany is looking as svelte as he's ever looked. Maybe start the guy who was the best offensive catcher in baseball as often as possible.

THI

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

In other Castillo news, Welington is hitting .706 this spring.

Sorry. Not a veteran presence. Koyie Dolan all the way.

Word on the street it "Nice Spring, kid.  You should play every day, so we are sending you to Des Moines."

I'm not really that upset about it unless Kwade has Lou's inexplicable need to start Koyie at least twice a week. Geovany is looking as svelte as he's ever looked. Maybe start the guy who was the best offensive catcher in baseball as often as possible.

THI

Yeah, there's no point on keeping Beef Wellington on the big league roster if he's not going to play.  Let him get fat(ter) on AAA pitching and, I don't know, develop some trade value, yes? 

Or maybe Jon just forgot to put his /nsbb pithy sarcasm tags/ around his impolite dig at Chainsaw Dolan...

[Saul Goodman]

In other Castillo news, Welington is hitting .706 this spring.

Sorry. Not a veteran presence. Koyie Dolan all the way.

Word on the street it "Nice Spring, kid.  You should play every day, so we are sending you to Des Moines."

I'm not really that upset about it unless Kwade has Lou's inexplicable need to start Koyie at least twice a week. Geovany is looking as svelte as he's ever looked. Maybe start the guy who was the best offensive catcher in baseball as often as possible.

They traded for Mauer?

[Bort]

In other Castillo news, Welington is hitting .706 this spring.

Sorry. Not a veteran presence. Koyie Dolan all the way.

Word on the street it "Nice Spring, kid.  You should play every day, so we are sending you to Des Moines."

I'm not really that upset about it unless Kwade has Lou's inexplicable need to start Koyie at least twice a week. Geovany is looking as svelte as he's ever looked. Maybe start the guy who was the best offensive catcher in baseball as often as possible.

THI

Yeah, there's no point on keeping Beef Wellington on the big league roster if he's not going to play.  Let him get fat(ter) on AAA pitching and, I don't know, develop some trade value, yes? 

Or maybe Jon just forgot to put his /nsbb pithy sarcasm tags/ around his impolite dig at Chainsaw Dolan...

Sorry my font wasn't as green as the fields of Athenry, Pádraig.

[Eli]

In other Castillo news, Welington is hitting .706 this spring.

Sorry. Not a veteran presence. Koyie Dolan all the way.

Word on the street it "Nice Spring, kid.  You should play every day, so we are sending you to Des Moines."

I'm not really that upset about it unless Kwade has Lou's inexplicable need to start Koyie at least twice a week. Geovany is looking as svelte as he's ever looked. Maybe start the guy who was the best offensive catcher in baseball as often as possible.

They traded for Mauer?

NL-only league. 

[morpheus]

In other Castillo news, Welington is hitting .706 this spring.

Sorry. Not a veteran presence. Koyie Dolan all the way.

Word on the street it "Nice Spring, kid.  You should play every day, so we are sending you to Des Moines."

I'm not really that upset about it unless Kwade has Lou's inexplicable need to start Koyie at least twice a week. Geovany is looking as svelte as he's ever looked. Maybe start the guy who was the best offensive catcher in baseball as often as possible.

They traded for Mauer?

NL-only league. 

I admit it, I LOLed.

[SKO]

In other Castillo news, Welington is hitting .706 this spring.

Sorry. Not a veteran presence. Koyie Dolan all the way.

Word on the street it "Nice Spring, kid.  You should play every day, so we are sending you to Des Moines."

I'm not really that upset about it unless Kwade has Lou's inexplicable need to start Koyie at least twice a week. Geovany is looking as svelte as he's ever looked. Maybe start the guy who was the best offensive catcher in baseball as often as possible.

They traded for Mauer?

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/sotos-remarkable-season/

[Saul Goodman]

"I look at [Wellemeyer] the same as I look at Augie [Ojeda]," Cubs manager Mike Quade said. "They're valuable pieces of the organization."

LOLMIKE

[PenPho]

Cashner to the rotation, Silva to the...?

[Gilgamesh]

Cashner to the rotation, Silva to the...?

buffet line?

[BH]

This organization is the best.

"Cubs outfield prospect Matt Szczur's new contract triggered a provision that makes him eligible for the major league Rule 5 draft new November if he's not put on the 40-man roster, according to a Baseball America report."

[CBStew]

This organization is the best.

"Cubs outfield prospect Matt Szczur's new contract triggered a provision that makes him eligible for the major league Rule 5 draft new November if he's not put on the 40-man roster, according to a Baseball America report."

Let this be a lesson to all of you who have purchased season tickets from the Cubs.  you may be the starting pitcher on opening day.

[Saul Goodman]

This organization is the best.

"Cubs outfield prospect Matt Szczur's new contract triggered a provision that makes him eligible for the major league Rule 5 draft new November if he's not put on the 40-man roster, according to a Baseball America report."

Samardzija's contract is the best money the Cubs have ever spent, so why not double down with another wide receiver?  Win-win, really.